CHAPTER 2 Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Sylvana Guidotti Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) is the clinical practice of using pharmacologic agents to achieve a measurable level of sedation, while performing…
CHAPTER 47 Cosmeceuticals and Skin Care Wendy L. Smeltzer Products applied to the skin can range from purely cosmetic products to prescription drugs, but many fall somewhere in between and…
CHAPTER 10 Topical Anesthesia Suraj Achar, Jonathan Chan Topical anesthesia offers patients an alternative to local injectable anesthetics. The ideal topical anesthetic should provide 100% anesthesia with rapid onset of…
CHAPTER 3 Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia Peter W. Grigg Epidural anesthesia (i.e., complete relief of pain and significant motor block) and analgesia (i.e., the relief of pain only, with as…
CHAPTER 7 Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia Paul W. Davis Over the past decade, various professional medical societies and hospital associations have readdressed the challenging issue of sedation and pain control…
CHAPTER 5 Local and Topical Anesthetic Complications William L. McDaniel, Jr., Raymond F. Jarris, Jr. Many in-office surgical procedures require the use of local or topical anesthetics. Topical anesthetics are…
CHAPTER 1 Bier Block Peter W. Grigg Intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia, also known as a Bier block, is a useful method of providing operative anesthesia to wide areas of the…
