Anesthesia Careplans

A great resource textbook is by Jaffee, Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures. Not cheap, around $125.

I recently discovered a book called "Essence of anesthesia practice" by Roizen and Fleisher. It has one page summaries of anesthetic implications of diseases and procedures. About $80-90 range, I think.

I am familiar with Jaffee. It is a good reference, but you can get bogged down in the "surgical implications" if you don't watch it. After all what you want are the "anesthesia implications".

I also like "Anesthesia and Co-existing disease" by Stoelting. I am thrilled there is finally a new edition. It is very good for rare and unusual diseases, but also good for common conditions. Nothing about particular procedure implications, though.

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Kathy,
You are welcome to my careplans, but I think you are further along than i am and may not find use with mine.
If you want them, pm me. I'm back from clinicals on Friday. My current clinical site is 4 hours away from home and for the next 3 months. Won't be checking this often.

graduating in 6 months i have a database full of anesthesia careplans.

I noticed you have a database full of care plans and was wondering if they are available to view?

I am in school now and would love to have some copies of careplans or just let me know which books are the best. Let me know--

Kathy,

PANA's website (Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Anesthetists) has a great care plan bank. Check it out. Good luck!

http://www.pana.org/
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There is also a great PDA program available from Skyscape called "The Manual of Anesthesia Practice". I would refer to it one the nights I was on call. It's a great reference, with tips that aren't in Jaffee.