This concise yet comprehensive handbook covers the essentials of anesthesiology with topics ranging from basic principles of pharmacology to pre-op evaluation, airway management, pain management, outpatient surgery, and patient recovery. An Internet-based version is also available, whereby the text is updated monthly and includes such features as.mpeg and.vdo files demonstrating procedures for applying general anesthetic and local blocks, audio files that accompany echocardiogram monitoring, plug-in algorithms for determining patient-specific acid-base equations, and hyperlinks to other anesthesia-based Net sites.