Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook

From the reviews: "This book presents an extremely practical approach for residents and internal medicine specialists to answer specific consultation requests concerning patients being prepared for surgery. ... All consultants and residents can learn much from this book. ... This is clearly one of the best books on perioperative management. I highly recommend this to clinicians, attending consultants, residents, OR, ICU, and postoperative nurses, and others such as pump technicians. There are numerous pearls for all." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013) "The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook comprises a concise overview of issues in the perioperative management of the medical problems of patients. ... provide a quick reference of steps to take in given situations with relatively light discussion of the evidence or rationale behind the action. ... this handbook would serve as a reasonable quick reference for a junior trainee seeking to function in a perioperative consultative service." (Rob Brown, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthesie, Vol. 60, 2013)

• Introduction.- Styles of Medical Consultation.- The Preoperative Evaluation.- Perioperative Medication Management.- Anesthesia Pearls.- Cardiovascular Risk Stratification.- Ischemic Heart Disease.- Perioperative Beta Blockers.- Atrial Fibrillation.- Hypertension.- Valvular Heart Disease.- Implantable Cardiac Devices.- Perioperative Pulmonary Risk Assessment.- Asthma and COPD.- Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- Pulmonary Hypertension.- Venous Thromboembolic Disease.- Chronic Kidney Disease.- Acute Kidney Injury.- Liver Disease and Perioperative Risk.- Perioperative Diabetes Management.- Stress Dose Steroids.- Anticoagulation.- Preoperative Evaluation and Treatment of Disorders of Hemostasis.- Postoperative Thrombocytopenia.- Perioperative Management of Anemia.- Parkinson’s Disease.- Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders.- Cerebrovascular Disease.- Perioperative Management of the Patient with Rheumatological Disease.- Gout and Pseudogout.- Perioperative Care of the Bariatric Patient.- PerioperativeCare of the Patient with a Solid Organ Transplant.- Decision-Making Capacity.-  Substance Abuse and Dependence.- Postoperative Evaluation.- Postoperative Fever.- Postoperative Delirium.- Postoperative Ileus.- Surgical Procedures Overview.