Table of Contents

1: Gary Enever: History of dental anaesthesia
2: Diane Monkhouse & Sanjiv Sharma: Pre-assessment of the oro-maxillofacial patient
3: Christopher Heneghan: Medicolegal aspects of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery
4: Steve Gayer & Charles Kayes: Recognition and management of the difficult airway
5: Kaye Cantlay: The surgical airway
6: Bernard Moxham & Barry Berkovitz: Innervation of the head and neck
7: John Meechan: Regional anaesthetic techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery
8: David Craig: Conscious sedation
9: Sean Williamson: Anaesthesia for dental surgery
10: Sandip Pal & Chandra Kumar: Anaesthesia for aesthetic surgery
11: Ian Clement: Anaesthetic implications of oral and maxillofacial infections
12: Hilary Turner & Ian Shaw: Oral and maxillofacial related injuries and hazards during anaesthesia
13: Neal Heath & Iain Macleod: Oral and maxillofacial imaging for the anaesthetist
14: Joy Curran: Anaesthesia for maxillofacial trauma
15: Timothy Vorster: Facial, oral, and airway thermal injuries and anaesthesia
16: Stephen Bonner & Anjum Ahmed-Nusrath: Anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial malignancy
17: Charles Kelly: Adjuvant therapy for head and neck malignancy
18: Viki Mitchell: Anaesthesia for orthognathic surgery
19: Ann Black & Senthil Nadarajan: Anaesthesia for paediatric maxillofacial surgery
20: Andrew Jones: Hypotensive anaesthesia
21: Judith Wright & Sanjiv Sharma: Anaesthesia for nasal and antral surgery
22: Tara Renton & Joanna Zakrzewska: Orofacial pain
23: Chris Dodds: Sleep apnoea
24: Lindsay Garcia: Postoperative nursing considerations for the maxillofacial surgical patient

About the Author

Dr Shaw was born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland. Before studying medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, he graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacology from the University of Bradford and was subsequently awarded a PhD by Cambridge University. He trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the teaching hospitals of Newcastle upon Tyne. For the past 20 years Dr Shaw has been a Consultant
Anaesthetist and an honorary Clinical Lecturer in the teaching hospitals of Newcastle upon Tyne. His areas of clinical practice include: anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery; ear, nose and
throat (ENT) surgery; and upper gastrointestinal surgery, in particular major oesophageal surgery. For the past eleven years Dr Shaw was a Royal College of Anaesthetists Final Fellowship examiner and chairman of the Final Fellowship Clinical Science Oral examination. Professor Chandra Kumar is a Consultant Anaesthetist based at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK. His interests include ophthalmic, regional, elderly and colorectal anaesthesia. He has edited 5 textbooks and
published widely in peer review journals in all aspects of anaesthesia. He has lectured and conducted master classes on ophthalmic regional anaesthesia in all the continents and prestigious organisations
such as World Congress of Anaesthesiology, World Congress of Regional Anaesthesia, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Anesthesia Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and many others. He founded British Ophthalmic Anaesthesia Society (BOAS) and is its current President and International President, 3rd World Congress of Ophthalmic Anaesthesia (Turkey). He is also examiner for the Final FFARCSI examinations for The
College of Anaesthetists, Dublin.

Reviews

Highly Commended in the Anaesthesia Category, BMA Medical Book Awards 2011