Cottrell and Patel’s Neuroanesthesia, 7th Edition

By: James E. Cottrell, MD, FRCA; Patel, Piyush, MD

ISBN: 9780323932738

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

Reviewer: Robert R. Gaiser, MD (Yale School of Medicine)

Description

The book provides a comprehensive approach to neuroanesthesia. The goal of the book is to present an evidence-based approach to the management of neurosurgical cases in the operating room and the interventional radiology suite. The previous edition was published in 2017.

Purpose

The purpose of this book is to summarize the literature on neuroanesthesia and present the information in a clinically useful fashion. The authors and editors exceed this goal by ensuring contemporaneous references, with conclusions based upon the literature. The book is comprehensive and serves as the definitive textbook for neuroanesthesia.

Audience

This book’s primary audience is those who provide anesthesia to patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures in the operating room or interventional suite. The book clearly has matched the pace of neurosurgery, presenting a chapter on interventional neuroradiology anesthetic management. This book is useful for residents, fellows, and practicing anesthesiologists; medical students will find the information difficult as one must have a basic understanding of anesthesiology. The authors and editors are internationally recognized experts in neuroanesthesiology, and all have published extensively in the literature.

Features

The book is a comprehensive approach to neuroanesthesiology. The book includes chapters on awake craniotomy, the application of anesthetic agents in depression, and pain management of neurosurgical patients. Each chapter is organized similarly: introduction, key subsections of the chapter, and summary. The summaries are short, highlighting the major points but not conveying all the information included in the chapter. The chapter on pain management is beneficial as it does not emphasize opioids, which is important given the current opioid crisis. Each chapter has several key points, and it would be helpful to provide a separate section or to highlight the key points as they occur in the chapter. The references are current and applicable, demonstrating that the clinical recommendations evidence-based and are coming from leaders within the specialty. The images are plentiful and supplement the information within the chapter. There is an accompanying ebook which requires a code. The code is beneath a scratch-to-remove. If scratched too hard, the code and the ability to use the ebook is lost.

Assessment

This book is extremely useful to anyone who provides anesthesia to patients requiring neurosurgical procedures. The recommendations are current and based upon the relevant literature. Medical students may find the book challenging as it does assume a basic knowledge of anesthesiology. Those within the field of anesthesiology recognize this book as a leading textbook for neuroanesthesiology.

©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Robert R. Gaiser, MD (Yale School of Medicine), Doody’s Score: 100 – 5 Stars!

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