Editor Richard A. Jaffe

2014

The goals of the fifth edition remain unchanged from those of the first—that is, to provide an easily accessible source of clinically relevant information about a wide variety of both common and not-so-common surgical procedures. As with the first edition, this edition does not pretend to be either a textbook of anesthesia or a textbook of surgery. Indeed, in the formulation of an anesthetic plan, there is no substitute for experience and sound clinical judgment.