Evidence-based Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

A comprehensive 2006 volume on the theories and applications of evidence-based anaesthesia and critical care.

A comprehensive 2006 volume on the theories and applications of evidence-based anaesthesia and critical care. Coming from the internationally renowned Cochrane Collaboration - the global force in evidence-based medicine - this promises to be an authoritative guide for anaesthetists. The Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group is one of the largest in the collaboration and, as coordinators of the group, the editors of this book have gathered a formidable set of contributions from around the world. The first half of the book provides an introduction to evidence-based medicine and applies the principles to anaesthesia and critical care, including critical appraisal, meta-analysis, interpreting results and controlling bias. The second half shows how to practise this in preoperative evaluation, regional and general anaesthesia, postoperative pain therapy, critical care and acute medicine. Medical professionals working in anaesthesia and surrounding specialties worldwide will find this book immensely useful.

Preface
1. Introducing evidence-based anaesthesia Ann Moller and Tom Pedersen
2. How to define the questions Ann Moller
3. Developing a search strategy, locating studies and electronic databases Tom Pedersen
4. Retrieving the data John Carlisle
5. Critical appraisal and the presentation of study details Helen Handoll
6. Outcomes Ann Moller
7. The meta-analysis of a systematic review Nathan Pace
8. Bias in systematic reviews Harald Herkner
9. The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group Tom Pedersen and Ann Moller
10. Integrating clinical practice and evidence: how to learn and teach evidence-based medicine Steven Knight and Andrew Smith
11. Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us Nete Villebro and Janet Wale
12. Evidence-based medicine in the Third World Ruth Hutchinson
13. Preoperative anaesthesia evaluation Maurizio Solca
14. Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia Mina Nishimori and Jane Ballantyne
15. Fluid therapy Peter Choi and J. Mark Ansermino
16. Antiemetics John Carlisle
17. Anaesthesia for day case surgery Kevin Walker and Andrew Smith
18. Obstetrical anaesthesia Stephen Halpern
19. Anaesthesia for major abdominal and urological surgery Paul Myles and Kate Leslie
20. Anaesthesia for paediatric surgery Neil Morton
21. Anaesthesia for eye, ENT and dental surgery Mathew Zacharias and Robyn Chirnside
22. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery Divya Chander and Adrian Gelb
23. Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care R. Peter Alston
24. Postoperative pain therapy Timothy Canty and Jane Ballantyne
25. Critical care medicine Harald Herkner and Christof Havel
26. Emergency medicine: cardiac arrest management, severe burns, near-drowning and multiple trauma Stephen Priestly and M. Ragg.