Perioperative medicine. Managing surgical patients with medical problems

Many patients undergoing surgery have a chronic medical disorder unrelated to the surgical problem. These can present major difficulties for inexperienced surgical house staff and others working unsupervised, rnost of whom will have had little or no experience in dealing with such problems. Perioperative Medicine provides practical guidelines on the managernent of all the common medical conditions likely to be encountered in routine surgical and anaesthetic practice. The book will be an indispensable guide for junior anaesthetists and surgical trainees.