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With the most authoritative and complete overview of anesthesia theory and practice, the latest edition of Basic Anesthesia, edited by noted anesthesiologist Ronald D. Miller, MD and Manuel C. Pardo, Jr., MD, continues to serve as an excellent primer on the scope and practice of anesthesiology. Widely acknowledged as the foremost introductory text, the new edition-now presented in full color throughout-has been thoroughly updated to reflect new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice including new chapters on awareness under anesthesia, quality and patient safety, orthopedics, and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology with detailed illustrated guidance. You can access the full text and image library online at www.expertconsult.com.

• Obtain a clear overview of everything you need to know about the fundamentals of anesthesia, including basic science and emerging clinical topics.
• Efficiently retain and synthesize information more easily thanks to a concise, at-a-glance format with numerous illustrations and tables throughout the book that condense complex concepts, and 'Questions of the Day' to assist you in understanding key material presented in each chapter.

• Discover the newest in anesthesiology with rigorously updated chapters and the addition of appropriate new chapters on important emerging topics such as awareness under anesthesia; quality and patient safety; orthopedics; and expanded coverage of new ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology.
• Learn from one of the very best. World-renowned anesthesiologist Dr. Ronald D. Miller, along with new co-editor Dr. Manuel Pardo, presents definitive coverage on new and rapidly changing areas in anesthesia practice.
• Grasp vital concepts easily thanks to concise, easy-to-read, masterfully edited chapters and a user-friendly format-now presented in full color throughout.
• Gain a detailed visual understanding on how to perform ultrasound techniques in regional anesthesiology (Peripheral Nerve Blocks) using illustrations and high-quality images.
• Access the full contents anywhere, anytime at www.expertconsult.com.

Clear and concise information written by arguably the best-known anesthesiologist in the world, Dr. Ronald Miller, and a new co-editor Dr. Manuel Pardo, makes difficult concepts easier to understand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19342 in Books
• Published on: 2011-06-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 8.00" w x 1.25" l, 4.05 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 832 pages

Review

". staying true to its mandate to provide solid introductory content and modernizing to keep current with available educational modalities and preferences, Basics of Anesthesia more than lives up to expectations. Therefore, it should continue to occupy the rarefied position of the primary introductory textbook of anesthesia for medical students and beginning trainees as well as the go-to text for those preparing for the written board exam or the seasoned professional in need of a focused review."

- Anesthesia & Analgesia, review of the 5th edition

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Baby Miller gets even better
By BrianB
The sixth edition of "Baby Miller" is the best edition of this anesthesia classic. An excellent choice for a solid introduction to Anesthesia, this book serves medical students, beginning residents in anesthesia, surgery residents in an anesthesia rotation, nurse anesthesia students, those needing a concise review before the board exam, and those who want a textbook that won't strain their upper back. It delivers the condensed, critical information that you simply must cram into your brain before the boards, seemingly without wasting a single word. It still manages to be readable and almost enjoyable in places. There are a lot of colorful graphics and photographs. Baby Miller has come a long way since the first edition, which was a lot shorter and strictly black and white. Of course, we know so much more now than we did then.

The text is technical, dense, and demands your full attention. There is no light reading here, with the possible exception of the first four chapters (history of anesthesia, scope of anesthesia practice, etc.). This is a textbook, full of detail that must be learned the hard way. Once I got into it, it was interesting enough and frequently insightful. No textbook gives you "just what you need to know" in daily practice, but this one comes closer to that ideal than any other I have read.

People who completed their training years ago will find this text valuable too. As a practicing anesthesiologist, I found a lot here that applies to my daily work. Since most review courses cover specific topics, with no attempt to be comprehensive, there is real benefit to the overview that this textbook offers. There is no easy way to stay up to date with all of the science in anesthesia, but this book served as the most practical approach for me.

The preface states that they have expanded the "geographic diversity of their contributors," but a quick glance at the list shows that this is still mostly a UCSF production (not a bad thing). Robert Stoelting, one of the best editors in anesthesia, is no longer on board, but this book doesn't suffer from his absence. It is very tightly edited, and the standards were evidently very high, because every chapter is well written and well organized.

With the purchase, you get an activation of expertconsult.com, which allows you to access the textbook online, anywhere you have access to the web. In the online version you get a search function, and the references are linked to the medline database, where you can get the abstracts, but not the full text of the original articles.

Lots of people claim that this book is the best study guide for the anesthesiology board written exam. I don't know how you can prove such a claim, but many hold it as an article of faith. It is an excellent study guide regardless, and you won't go astray with this book for your board preparation.

If you are making a career in anesthesia, you will need a more than this, probably both Miller and Barash, but those will be reference books, not something that you will read from cover to cover (I know one person who claims to have done so, and he is just freaky enough that I believe him). Most of us can read this one. When you finish, you will be at the pinnacle of your medical knowledge. Of course it's all downhill from there, but such is life.