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Foreword
Appropriate monitoring of the surgical patient is one of very few “standards” for the anesthesiologist. Since Cushing first established the utility of measuring and recording blood pressure, there ha...
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Lee A. Fleisher
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xi-xii
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Preface
The literature is replete with activities, monographs, and texts focused on the topic of monitoring. The term monitor is derived from the word monere, “to warn or remind.” Many investigators have exte...
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Jeffrey S. Vender,
Joseph W. Szokol,
Glenn S. Murphy
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Technology Assessment for the Anesthesiologist
Health care costs have increased in the United States much faster than the gross domestic product (GDP) for more than four decades . In 1960, about 5% of the United States GDP was spent on medical car...
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J.P. Abenstein
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677-696
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Electrocardiography: The ECG
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a standard American Society of Anesthesiologists monitor and should be continuously displayed during an operative procedure. In addition to providing a wealth of physiol...
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A.D. John,
Lee A. Fleisher
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697-715
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Arterial and Central Venous Pressure Monitoring
“The same old Watson! You never learn that the gravest issues may depend upon the smallest things.” — Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Creeping Man by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleVigilance is the mot...
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Atilio Barbeito,
Jonathan B. Mark
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717-735
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Intraoperative Monitoring with Transesophageal Echocardiography: Indications, Risks, and Training
The use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) by anesthesiologists has been steadily increasing. This article is divided into three areas of intraoperative TEE: indications, risks, and training. T...
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Jesse Marymont,
Glenn S. Murphy
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737-753
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Assessment of Left Ventricular Global and Segmental Systolic Function with Transesophageal Echocardiography
Anesthesiologists use transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the operating room, emergency room, and critical care settings. The individual indications differ widely, but evaluation of global and s...
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David H. Odell,
Michael K. Cahalan
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755-762
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Noninvasive Technologies for Tissue Perfusion
The adequacy of vital organ perfusion ideally should be monitored or determined with a device that measures tissue oxygenation, an impractical task for vital organs remote from the body surface. Tissu...
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James Ramsay
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763-775
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Monitoring of the Brain and Spinal Cord
Over the last 30 years, intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IOM) of the brain and spinal cord has become an established technique to provide functional neurologic assessment during axial skele...
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Leslie C. Jameson,
Tod B. Sloan
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777-791
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Depth of Anesthesia Monitoring
Anesthetic drug effects have traditionally been measured by the observation of heart rate, blood pressure, breathing pattern, and the presence or absence of movement. While these are useful measures, ...
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T. Andrew Bowdle
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793-822
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Perioperative Thermoregulation and Temperature Monitoring
People normally are able to maintain core body temperature (core temperature) within narrow physiological limits. Regulation of core temperature is achieved by means of behavioral and autonomic mechan...
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Steven R. Insler,
Daniel I. Sessler
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Coagulation Monitoring
Normal hemostasis protects the organism from hemorrhage and thrombosis. It involves complex and dynamic physiologic processes kept in balance by a system of positive and negative feedback mechanisms. ...
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Antoine G. Rochon,
Linda Shore-Lesserson
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Monitoring Hepatic and Renal Function
Liver disease represents a serious risk factor for patients requiring anesthesia and surgery. The degree of risk depends on the etiology of liver disease (acute or chronic), severity of hepatic dysfun...
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Vivek Moitra,
Geraldine Diaz,
Robert N. Sladen
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857-880
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Index
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