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Edited by Robert R. Kirby and Nikolaus Gravenstein. 1457 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994. $85. ISBN 0-7216-3328-5.

During the past few years, several excellent and comprehensive textbooks of anesthesiology have been published. However, this one takes a different approach by discussing the practice of anesthesia in a single volume with an emphasis on clinically relevant, practical aspects.

The first two thirds of the book consists of 54 succinct chapters, each focusing on a fundamental element of anesthetic care; these topics include timely issues such as risk and outcome analysis as well as such basics as the airway, clinical monitoring, and pharmacologic considerations. The chapters devoted to perioperative consultations are particularly informative, since this material has generally not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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