Chapter 7 Difficult Airway Prediction Fauzia Mir and A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert Key Points Airway assessment preoperatively is essential for patient management and can reduce significant morbidity and mortality. A comprehensive…
Chapter 17 Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Grainne Nicholson and George M. Hall Key Points Patients with endocrine disease are a heterogeneous group and may present for surgery for their underlying…
Chapter 21 Herbal Medications A. Agatha Crerar-Gilbert Key Points 1. Although seen as beneficial and safe, herbal medications and supplements are not completely risk free. 2. Use of herbal medications…
Chapter 16 Biochemistry Laura Tooth and Paul Collinson Key Points Always clinically assess patients before ordering any tests. Only order tests that could directly change patient management. Laboratory tests are…
Chapter 5E Comparison of Cardiac Functional Tests and Imaging Tarun Mittal and Aigul Baltabaeva Key Points Cardiac functional tests and imaging play an increasing role in identifying and stratifying cardiac…
Chapter 10 Hepatobiliary Disease Anish Gupta and Charl Jooste Key Points Liver disease is increasingly prevalent in the developed world. Many patients may present with only mildly deranged bloods, but…
Chapter 8 Renal Disease Iain A. M. MacPhee Key Points The risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases with age and glomerular filtration rates (GFR) <60 mL/min per 1.73…
Chapter 5A Cardiac Investigations Echocardiography Muhammad Sohaib Nazir and Rajan Sharma Key Points Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a safe, rapid, non-invasive and cheap test in the preoperative period. Echocardiography is…
Chapter 2 Hypertension Tarek Francis Antonios Key Points Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for morbidity and mortality in cardiovascular disease. Treatment of hypertension not only reduces the…
Chapter 5C Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Robin Ray and Bashar Ibrahim Key Points Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) provides high spatial and temporal resolution imaging of the beating heart and is the…
