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Jaypee Textbook Of Onco Anesthesia & Critical Care by Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni
This book is aimed at introducing new entrants in the field of oncoanesthesia to the intricacies of the art as well as the old hands to update them.• How is the cancer epidemiology changing? Why oncoanesthesia is emerging as a daring new specialty?• The neoadjuvant therapy in the form of chemotherapeutic drugs, radiation, and immunotherapy is changing the landscape and making patients more vulnerable to complications. Experts show a way to assess the effects of these therapies and manage the patients.• Apart from the effect of these therapies on cancer, we see systemic effects. A how-to by the expert on tackling them.• Enhanced recovery pathways for cancer surgeries and their impact on outcomes• How to use risk stratification tools and how outcomes are assessed• Details of management of specific cancers affecting various areaso Head and neck cancer, the most common cancers, extensive resection and reconstruction with microvascular free flapso Breast oncosurgeries in patients who almost always receive neoadjuvant therapieso The glamorous, exciting but dangerous thoracic surgerieso The newer group of surgeries—CRS-HIPEC/HITAC/PIPACo Many more• Relevant cancer critical care• Managing pain and palliation and end-of-life care for those with terminal disease