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Baby Miller gets even better
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.
書名Basics of anesthesia
著者 Ronald D. Miller, Manuel C. Pardo Jr
索書號 WO200/S872b/2011
出版者 Elsevier/Saunders
ISBN 9781437716146 (hbk.)
出版年 2011
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.
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Baby Miller gets even better
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.
書名Basics of anesthesia
著者 Ronald D. Miller, Manuel C. Pardo Jr
索書號 WO200/S872b/2011
出版者 Elsevier/Saunders
ISBN 9781437716146 (hbk.)
出版年 2011
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