Evidence-based Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Preface; 1. Introducing evidence-based anaesthesia Ann Mller and Tom Pedersen; 2. How to define the questions Ann Mller; 3. Developing a search strategy, locating studies and electronic databases Tom Pedersen; 4. Retrieving the data John Carlisle; 5. Critical appraisal and the presentation of study details Helen Handoll; 6. Outcomes Ann Mller; 7. The meta-analysis of a systematic review Nathan Pace; 8. Bias in systematic reviews Harald Herkner; 9. The Cochrane Collaboration and the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group Tom Pedersen and Ann Mller; 10. Integrating clinical practice and evidence: how to learn and teach evidence-based medicine Steven Knight and Andrew Smith; 11. Involving patients and consumers in health care and decision-making processes: nothing about us without us Nete Villebro and Janet Wale; 12. Evidence-based medicine in the Third World Ruth Hutchinson; 13. Preoperative anaesthesia evaluation Maurizio Solca; 14. Regional anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia Mina Nishimori and Jane Ballantyne; 15. Fluid therapy Peter Choi and J. Mark Ansermino; 16. Antiemetics John Carlisle; 17. Anaesthesia for day case surgery Kevin Walker and Andrew Smith; 18. Obstetrical anaesthesia Stephen Halpern; 19. Anaesthesia for major abdominal and urological surgery Paul Myles and Kate Leslie; 20. Anaesthesia for paediatric surgery Neil Morton; 21. Anaesthesia for eye, ENT and dental surgery Mathew Zacharias and Robyn Chirnside; 22. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery Divya Chander; 23. Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care R. Peter Alston; 24. Postoperative pain therapy Timothy Canty and Jane Ballantyne; 25. Critical care medicine Harald Herkner and Christof Havel; 26. Emergency medicine: cardiac arrest management, severe burns, near-drowning and multiple trauma Stephen Pries

Ann Moller is a specialiast in anaesthesiology and co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group. Her specific areas of research interest are evidence-based medicine, surgery, anaesthesia and smoking intervention. Tom Pedersen is Director of the Head and Orto-Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen and co-ordinating editor of the Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group. His specific areas of research interest are patient safety, quality assurance and evidence-based health economics.

'The text is invariably well written and is extremely engaging in style. ... I believe that this book will be welcome to researchers and educators in anaesthesia; it represents an extremely thorough and compact drawing-together of the currently available evidence in our specialty and will be a very useful means of rapidly becoming conversant with the evidence base of issues of interest. Medicolegal practitioners will also find the book useful in supporting their assessment of the standard of care and causation.' ESA Newsletter