This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Anesthesia  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Edited by Fun-Sun F. Yao, Manuel L. Fontes, and Vinod Malhotra
6th ed, 1376 pp, $99
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-6510-7

JAMA. 2009;302(11):1234-1235.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Yao and Artusio's Anesthesiology has become one of the texts preeminently used by anesthesiology graduates preparing for the oral board examination. It is much more than this. This multiauthored 6th edition has evolved into a significant body of work. It can be used as a quick reference for the busy practitioner needing a review before an uncommon case, for the nonspecialist in search of concise anesthesiology knowledge to advise a patient, or for the student trying to organize his or her anesthetic plan. While this book is not a stand-alone textbook of anesthesiology, it serves to assist the reader in organization of thought, and most importantly, in the clear, articulate expression of an anesthetic plan. As stated in the preface, it is designed to "present a group of important clinical entities covering the most critical anesthetic problems." The editors have done an excellent job of using case presentations (stem questions) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph H. McIsaac III, MD, MS, Reviewer
Department of Anesthesiology/Trauma Anesthesia
Hartford Hospital
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Hartford
jmcisaa@harthosp.org

Thomas J. Martin, MD, Reviewer
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Hartford

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?