Miller's anesthesia,7th ed

V. 1: History of anesthetic practice -- Scope of modern anesthetic practice -- The international scope and practice of anesthesia -- Medical informatics -- Quality improvement -- Human performance and patient safety -- Patient simulation -- Teaching anesthesia -- Ethical aspects of anesthesia care -- Legal aspects of anesthesia care -- Sleep, memory, and consciousness -- The autonomic nervous system -- Cerebral physiology and the effects of anesthetic drugs -- Neuromuscular physiology and pharmacology -- Respiratory physiology -- Cardiac physiology -- Hepatic physiology and pathophysiology -- Renal physiology -- Basic principles of pharmacology -- Inhaled anesthetics: mechanisms of action -- Inhaled anesthetics: uptake and distribution -- Pulmonary pharmacology -- Cardiovascular pharmacology -- Inhaled anesthetics: metabolism and toxicity -- Inhaled anesthetic delivery systems -- Intravenous anesthetics -- Opioids -- Intravenous drug delivery systems -- Pharmacology of muscle relaxants and their antagonists -- Local anesthetics -- Nitric oxide and inhaled pulmonary vasodilators -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Risk of anesthesia -- Preoperative evaluation -- Anesthetic implications of concurrent diseases -- Patient positioning and anesthesia -- Neuromuscular disorders and malignant hyperthermia -- Fundamental principles of monitoring instrumentation -- Monitoring the depth of anesthesia -- Cardiovascular monitoring -- Transesophageal echocardiography -- Electrocardiography -- Implantable cardiac pulse generators: pacemakers and cardioverter-defibrillators -- Respiratory monitoring -- Renal function monitoring -- Neurologic monitoring -- Neuromuscular monitoring -- Temperature regulation and monitoring -- V. 2: Perioperative acid-base balance -- Airway management in the adult -- Spinal, epidural, and caudal anesthesia -- Nerve blocks -- Ultrasound guidance for regional anesthesia -- Intravascular fluid and electrolyte physiology -- Transfusion therapy -- Coagulation -- Autologous transfusion, recombinant factor vlla, and bloodless medicine -- Anesthesia and treatment of chronic pain -- Anesthesia for thoracic surgery -- Anesthesia for cardiac surgical procedures -- Anesthesia for correction of cardiac arrhythmias -- Anesthesia for vascular surgery -- Neurosurgical anesthesia -- Anesthesia for bariatric surgery -- Anesthesia and the renal and genitourinary systems -- Anesthesia and the hepatobiliary system -- Anesthesia for abdominal organ transplantation -- Anesthesia for laparoscopic surgery -- Anesthesia for obstetrics -- Anesthesia for orthopedic surgery -- Geriatric anesthesia -- Anesthesia for trauma -- Anesthesia and prehospital emergency and trauma care -- Chemical and biological warfare agents: the role of the anesthesiologist -- Anesthesia for eye, ear, nose, and throat surgery -- Anesthesia for robotic surgery -- Anesthesia for laser surgery -- Ambulatory (outpatient) anesthesia -- Anesthesia at remote locations -- Clinical care in extreme environments: at high and low pressure and in space -- Regional anesthesia in children -- Pediatric anesthesia -- Anesthesia for pediatric cardiac surgery -- Pediatric and neonatal intensive care -- The postanesthesia care unit -- Postoperative nausea and vomiting -- Acute postoperative pain -- Postoperative intravascular fluid therapy -- Cognitive dysfunction and other long-term complications of surgery and anesthesia -- Postoperative visual loss -- Overview of anesthesiology and critical care medicine -- Critical care protocols -- Respiratory care -- Neurocritical care -- Nutrition and metabolic control -- Renal replacement therapies -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: basic and advanced life support -- Brain death -- Operating room management -- Electrical safety in the operating room -- Environmental safety including chemical dependency -- Statistical methods in anesthesia.