Pediatric Anesthesiology Review Clinical Cases for Self-Assessme

Based on a program of study developed at the Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pediatric Anesthesiology Review: Clinical Cases for Self-Assessment provides essential medical information for the subs

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Robert S. Holzman    Thomas J. Mancuso Navil F. Sethna    James A. DiNardo ●



Pediatric Anesthesiology Review Clinical Cases for Self-Assessment

Robert S. Holzman, MD, FAAP Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia Children’s Hospital Boston Associate Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Boston, MA [email protected] Navil F. Sethna, MB, ChB Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Children’s Hospital Boston Associate Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Boston, MA [email protected]

Thomas J. Mancuso, MD, FAAP Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Children’s Hospital Boston Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Boston, MA [email protected] James A. DiNardo, MD Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia Children’s Hospital Boston Associate Professor of Anaesthesia Harvard Medical School Boston, MA [email protected]

Additional material to this book can be download from http://extra.springer.com ISBN 978-1-4419-1616-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1617-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1617-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925116 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This text is designed for those who would become consultants in pediatric anesthesia. It is based on a curriculum developed over 15 years in our department to illustrate the breadth and depth of the practice of pediatric anesthesia, consisting of weekly meetings between our fellows and many of our faculty who are or who have been associate examiners of the American Board of Anesthesiology. The program is an integral part of the didactic series in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston. An ability to explain why various data are required before or during the care of a patient or why a certain anesthesia care plan was chosen was critical to us in our philosophy of the course, and we have tried to preserve that ideal during the crafting of this text. Although the interactive aspect of a dialo