Anaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction

What do anaesthetists do? How do anaesthetics work? What are the risks? And how does the anaesthetist know if you are really asleep? Anaesthesia is a mysterious and sometimes threatening process. In this Very Short Introduction, Aidan O'Donnell takes the reader on a tour through the whole of the modern anaesthetic practice.

• | By (Author): Aidan (Consultant Anaesthetist, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand) O'Donnell
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199584540
• | ISBN-13: 9780199584543