From perioperative evaluation to postoperative care, this pocket-sized edition of Clinical Anesthesia, Fourth Edition provides easy access to essential bedside information. Its concise and readable outline format incorporates hundreds of tables, graphs, and algorithms--all summarizing and prioritizing crucial clinical points. This new edition includes up-to-date guidelines on office-based anesthesia...cost-effective preoperative testing...hazards of working in the OR...prevention and management of OR fires...preoperative preparation and fasting...anesthesia for minimally invasive surgical procedures...and drug interactions. Appendices include an extensive ECG atlas, plus guidelines for OR management of pacemakers and automated implantable defibrillators.