The "Bible on Anesthesia Equipment" returns in a new Fifth edition, and once again takes readers step-by-step through all the basic anesthesia equipment.

Understanding Anesthesia Equipment includes comprehensive references and detailed discussions on the scientific fundamentals of anesthesia equipment, its design, and its optimal use. This thoroughly updated edition includes new information on suction devices, the magnetic resonance imaging environment, temperature monitoring and control, double-lumen tubes, emergency room airway equipment, and many other topics.

Readers will have access to the fully searchable online text and an interactive quiz bank at a companion Website.

Contents

Gas Supply and Distribution Systems

1. Medical Gas Cylinders and Containers
2. Medical Gas Pipeline Systems
3. Suction Equipment
4. Oxygen Concentrators

Anesthesia Machines and Breathing Systems

5. The Anesthesia Machine
6. Vaporizers
7. The Breathing System: General Principles, Common Components, and Classifications
8. Mapleson Breathing Systems
9. The Circle System
10. Manual Resuscitators
11. Humidification Equipment
12. Anesthesia Ventilators
13. Controlling Trace Gas Levels
14. Hazards of Anesthesia Machines and Breathing Systems
15. Latex Allergy

Airway Equipment

16. Face Masks and Airways
17. Supraglottic Airway Devices
18. Laryngoscopes
19. Tracheal Tubes and Associated Equipment
20. Lung Isolation Devices
21. Devices for Managing the Difficult Airway

Monitoring Devices

22. Gas Monitoring
23. Airway Volumes, Flows, and Pressures
24. Pulse Oximetry
25. Neuromuscular Transmission Monitoring
26. Alarm Devices
27. Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitors
28. Data Management Systems
29. Temperature Monitoring

Equipment Related to Environmental Situations

30. Equipment for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Environment
31. Temperature Control Equipment
32. Operating Room Fires and Personnel Injuries Related to Sources of Ignition

Equipment Care

33. Equipment Checkout
34. Cleaning and Sterilization

Index

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