Total intravenous anesthesia and target controlled infusions : a comprehensive global anthology /: a comprehensive global anthology. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony R. Absalom, Keira P. Mason, editors.
• Editors: Absalom, Anthony R; Mason, Keira P
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction/Background; Chapter 1: When and How Did It All Begin? A Brief History of Intravenous Anesthesia; Barbiturates; Benzodiazepines; Propanidid; Etomidate; Steroids; Phencyclidines; Propofol; The Concept of `Balanced Anesthesia;́ Intravenous anesthesia for practice outside the operating theater.; References; Chapter 2: The Development and Regulation of Commercial Devices for Target-Controlled Drug Infusion; Introduction; The Development of Infusion Devices Suitable for Use in Anaesthesia. First Steps Towards Commercial TCI SystemsThe `Diprifusor ́TCI Development; `Open ́TCI Systems; Remifentanil TCI; Sufentanil TCI; Propofol TCI with Open TCI Devices; Simple Versus Complex Model; Lean Body Mass Calculation; Different Implementations of Effect Control Software; Models for TCI in Children; Use of Different Rate Constants to Predict or Control Effect Site Concentration; Possible Ways Forward; Drug Is Still Being Actively Marketed by the Originating Company; Drug Is No Longer Actively Marketed by Originating Company; Propofol; Other Drugs; Conclusion; References. Chapter 3: The Memory Labyrinth: Systems, Processes, and BoundariesIntroduction; A History of the Taxonomy of Memory; A Useful Conceptualization of Memory; Memory as a Behavior: The Ebbinghausen Paradigm, or More Simply, Study-Test Paradigm; From Sensation to Memory: Information Flow; Serial Parallel Independent (SPI) Model of Memory; Recognition Memory: Not So Simple-Familiarity and Recollection with a Detour into Déjà vu; Under the Hood: The Neurobiologic/Neurocomputational Instantiation of Conscious Memory Processes; Working Memory; Episodic/Conscious Memory; The Hippocampus. The Rest of the BrainThe ``Black Box ́́of Unconscious Memory; The Neurobiology of Unconscious Memory; Anesthetic Effects on Memory; Anesthetic Effects on Conscious Memory: How Do We Make Patients ``Not Remember a Thing!?́́; Awareness During Anesthesia: Interaction with Memory Systems; Learning During Anesthesia, Is It Possible? What Is the Evidence?; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Consciousness and Anesthesia; Brainstem: Basal Forebrain Circuits, Sleep and Anaesthesia; Adenosine as a Mediator of Homeostatic Control; Arousal from Sleep and Anaesthesia. Electrophysiological Correlates of Brainstem ActivityThalamic Networks, Sleep and Anaesthesia; Anaesthesia and Thalamic Activity; Failure of Information Transfer from Periphery to the Cortex; Suppression of Ascending Arousal Pathways: Thalamic Readout; Thalamic Consciousness Switch; Thalamocortical and Corticothalamic Loops; Electrophysiological Correlates of Thalamic Activity; Cortical Networks, Sleep and Anaesthesia; Regional Changes in Response to Altered Conscious States; Regional Interactions During Altered Conscious States; Fragmentation of Neuronal Networks with Loss of Consciousness.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 824 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 617.9/62; Medicine; Intravenous anesthesia; MEDICAL -- Anesthesiology; Intravenous anesthesia; Anesthesia, Intravenous; Infusions, Intravenous; Safety Management; Medical -- Surgery -- General; Critical care surgery; Anesthesiology; Trauma; Anaesthetics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319476094; 3319476092; 3319476076; 9783319476070
• Related ISBNs: 9783319476070
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 10, 2017).
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