Ward's Anaesthetic Equipment
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Author(s): J. Moyle and A. Davey.
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Edition:  4th
ISBN:  0702021695
Format: hardback
  405pp
Price: £54.99
Review Date: September 18, 2003
Review: This reference book gives trainee anaesthetists straightforward explanations of the functions of items of anaesthetic equipment so that they can use them safely. Amongst other equipment, it covers: vaporizers; continuous-flow anaesthetic machines; airway management devices; manual resuscitators; automatic ventilators; humidifiers and nebulizers; non-invasive monitoring equipment; infusion equipment; medical suction apparatus; and lasers. It also discusses the physical principles of the equipment; vigilance and human error; and preventing electrical accidents. This latest edition has new chapters on equipment for the inhalation of oxygen and of ‘Entonox’, equipment for local analgesia, advanced monitoring systems, automatic record keeping equipment, surgical diathermy, defibrillators and pacemakers, and risk management.