A practice of anaesthesia / Davidson Churchill

Structure and function of the respiratory tract in relation to anesthesia -- Pulmonary ventilation -- Pulmonary gas exchange and acid-base status -- Oxygen and associated gases -- Hyperbaric physiology and medicine -- Inhalation anesthetic agents -- Uptake and distribution of inhalation anesthetic agents -- Environmental hazards in the operating room -- Artificial ventilation -- Intensive therapy -- Thoracic anesthesia -- The cardiovascular system -- The cardiovascular system -- Anesthesia and cardiac disease -- Circulatory arrest, pulmonary and systemic embolism -- Extracorporeal circulation and hypothermia -- Body water, circulation and hypothermia -- Blood transfusion -- The nervous system -- General pharmacological principles -- Intravenous anesthesia -- Neuromuscular transmission -- Factors affecting neuromuscular block -- Clinical use of neuromuscular blocking drugs and reversal agents -- Neurological conditions and anesthesia -- Cerebral circulations and brain metabolism -- Neurological anesthesia -- Pain and the analgesic drugs -- The pharmacology of local anesthesia drugs -- Spinal and epidural block -- Pain clinic and operative nerve blocks -- The metabolic, digestive and excretory systems -- Anesthesia and the gastro-intestinal tract -- Anesthesia and the liver -- Anesthesia and the kidney -- The endocrine system -- The reproductive system -- Physiological changes of pregnancy and labor -- Anesthesia for obstetrician -- The fetus and placenta -- Pediatric anesthesia -- Spinal situations -- History -- Anesthetic equipment.