Product Description In this vignette-based companion to the highly popular Anesthesia Secrets, Dr. James Duke and colleagues present a wealth of real-patient cases and focus on the important preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative anesthetic considerations. For each case, a scenario of a classic or difficult patient problem is introduced, and the reader is challenged to formulate the anesthetic management. The authors then answer the questions they have posed, and each chapter concludes with three or four key "Secrets" distilled from the case. Discusses difficult and challenging problems in anesthesiology Presents valuable information not found in standard texts Book Info (Hanley & Belfus) Univ. of Colorado, Denver. Text contains a compilation of case studies covering the topic of anesthesia Each case presents questions on the patient's condition, perioperative issues, intraoperative problems, therapy, treatment dilemmas, and procedural difficulties. Halftone images are included. Softcover.