Drugs in Anaesthesiology, 4/E for PG Medical Students, Intensivists, and OT Practitioners | Anesthesia Drug Guide and Revision Book with Comparative Tables and Antibiotics | Critical Care: 1

Drugs in Anaesthesiology, 4/E is a compact, easy-to-carry drug-class reference for anaesthesia practice, written by Dr Vipin K Dhama, MD (Anaesthesiology), who has more than 25 years of experience in anaesthesiology including a Fellowship in Critical Care. This fourth edition adds a newly written Antibiotics chapter and upgrades every chapter with new references, keeping the drug information current for today’s anaesthesia practice.

The book is organized into 15 chapters plus an index, moving systematically through the drug classes an anaesthesiologist uses in daily practice: Basics of Pharmacology, Skeletal Muscle Relaxants, Opioids, Volatile Anesthetics, Intravenous Induction Drugs, Inotropes, Anticholinergics, Anticholinesterases, Local Anesthetics, Nonopioid Analgesics, Antihypertensive Drugs, Antiemetics and Antacids, Anticoagulant and Procoagulant drugs, Miscellaneous Drugs, and the new Antibiotics chapter.

Rather than a discursive textbook, its layout is built for quick lookup: each chapter opens with a chapter banner and boldface section headers (Introduction, Indications, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics) followed by bulleted points, numbered comparative tables (for example, cardiovascular effects compared across halothane, isoflurane, desflurane and sevoflurane, and MAC values by age group), and multiple flowcharts mapping out drug mechanisms, plus a worked numeric example of the concentration effect. Printing is single-colour with line diagrams and flowcharts, and every section closes with numbered references.

Who This Book Is For:

• Anesthesiology Postgraduates (MD): a chapter-by-chapter drug-class companion for the MD Anaesthesiology curriculum, matching the book’s own postgraduate-supplementary-text classification.
• Anesthesiologists: positioned by the publisher for quick revision of drugs, in a compact size that is easy to carry at the workplace.
• Intensivists: covers the inotrope, antihypertensive, anticoagulant and antibiotic drug classes used routinely in critical care.
• OT Practitioners: a chair-side, easy-to-remember tabular drug reference for the operation theatre.

Why This Book Helps:

• Simplifies drug comparisons: side-by-side comparative tables, such as one comparing four volatile anesthetics, replace scattered facts with one-glance comparisons.
• Explains mechanisms, not just facts: flowcharts walk through pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles (six in the Volatile Anesthetics chapter alone), including a worked numeric example.
• Closes a curriculum gap: the newly added Antibiotics chapter brings antimicrobial drugs used in anaesthesia and critical care into the same tabular format as the rest of the book.
• Stays current: every chapter has been upgraded with new references for this edition.
• Built for the workplace, not just the library: compact size designed for quick revision and easy carry at the workplace and OT.

Key Features:

• 15 chapters plus index covering the full range of anaesthesia-relevant drug classes, from muscle relaxants and opioids to antibiotics.
• Newly added Antibiotics chapter (Chapter 15), not present in the previous edition.
• Numbered comparative tables in an easy-to-remember tabular format, including cross-drug comparisons (e.g. cardiovascular effects across halothane, isoflurane, desflurane and sevoflurane) and MAC values by age group.
• Multiple explanatory flowcharts per chapter (six in the sampled Volatile Anesthetics chapter alone) mapping drug mechanisms and concentration-effect relationships.
• All chapters upgraded with new references for this edition, with numbered citations throughout.

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