Molly Blackley Jackson - The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook

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Colleagues in perioperative care,

It is our great pleasure to offer a third edition ofThe Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Every chapter has been reviewed and updated where necessary. We have added new chapters covering important topics including heart failure, care of transgender individuals, hormone therapy, thrombophilias, acute and chronic pain, spinal cord injury, post-operative hypoxemia, and post-operative tachycardia. To highlight the most important points and resources, we have added key points at the end of each chapter and indicated the most salient resources in the reference lists.

As with the previous editions, we aim to provide evidence-based recommendations to optimize the care of patients around the time of surgery. Moreover, we aspire to thoughtfully combine the calculators, pathways, decision tools, and algorithms necessary to improve patient care with a humanistic approach: delivering personalized, thoughtful care to every patient as if they were our own family member. We believe that the most critical elements of delivering outstanding perioperative care are taking the time to know our patients as individuals, and collaborating effectively with our surgery, anesthesiology, primary care, nursing, and other hospital care team colleagues.

This handbook is written by our colleagues at the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, the Seattle Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and many others. We are honored to be a part of this larger community, and deeply grateful for the collaboration.

With respect,

Molly Blackley Jackson

Elizabeth Kaplan

Ronald Huang

Somnath Mookherjee

Seattle, WA, USA