The Human factor of anesthesia and patient care
This book explains the anesthesiologist's role in watching over patients vital functions, explaining the careful administration of potent medications used during anesthesia, to warn over possible complications, and to emphasize how techniques may ameliorate the immediate postoperative pain.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mexico D.F. :
Editorial Alfil
2005.
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| Colección: | Gale eBooks
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429310306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The human factor of anesthesia and patient care ; Página Legal; Table of contents; Foreword; Section I; 1 Quality vs. quantity of patient contact; 2 Thoughts on safety and comfort; 2 The anesthesiologist: physiologist, pharmacologist, technician or physician?; 4 Preanesthetic visit vs. preanesthetic evaluation; 5 Defusing a highly charged atmosphere; 6 The post-anesthetic visit: is it practical?; Section II; 7 Improving communication with our patients; 8 The anesthesiologist's image by means of communication; 9 What do our anesthetized patients hear?; 10 Adjuvants to supportive conversation
- 11 Hearing without listeningSection III; 12 Anesthesia technology and the human factor; 13 The anesthesiologist ministering to the heart, the mind and everything; 14 The human factor and the cancer patient; 15 The human factor in obstetric anesthesia; 16 The personal touch; Section IV; 17 An introspective look at ourselves; 18 The silent horseshoe counter; 19 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others; 20 Opportune and favorable interventions; 21 Getting caught in the alphabet soup; Section V; 22 Medical ethics and the anesthesiologist; 23 The primacy of the patient's wish
- 24 Anesthesiology: saving or taking a life?25 Death in dignity; 26 Profit versus compassion; 27 Bioethics, an ever-changing and accommodating discipline; Section VI; 28 Firm confidence vs. authoritarian arrogance; 29 Informed consent: sharing responsibility; 30 Emotional reactions to anesthesia and surgery; 31 Those patients in the transplant unit; 32 Anesthesia and the soul; 33 Walking unknown paths toward a milestone; 34 The surgical act; Index
