The human factor of anesthesia and patient care / J. Antonio Aldrete, M.D., M.S., professor of Anesthesiology, founder and president of Arachnoiditis Foundation, Inc., promoter of Latin American Anesthesiology, Birmingham, AL, EUA, e-mail: aldrete@arachnoiditis.com, author of Texto de anestesiologia teorica-practica, Tratado de algiologia, Manual clinico del dolor, Arachnoiditis, the silent epidemic and Cefalea, migrana y algias cefalocervicales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldrete, J. Antonio, author.

Contributor:

Aldrete, J. Antonio.

Aldrete Velasco, Jorge, ed.

e-libro, Corp.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anesthesia.

Medical care.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 154 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Mexico, D.F. : Editorial Alfil, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786077410645

6077410640

9781449282349

1449282342

OCLC:

847713159