BASIC Essentials

1. Anatomy Dallis Clendeninn and Nadia Hernandez; 2. Anesthesia delivery systems Morgane Giordano, Jeron Zerillo and Bryan Hill; 3. Monitoring methods Tyler Chernin; 4. Ventilators alarms and safety features Jonathan A. Paul and Michael D. Lazar; 5. Defibrillators Matthew A. Levin; 6. Electrical, fire and explosion hazards, basic electronics Thomas Palaia and Andrew Schwartz; 7. Basic mathematics and statistics Hung-Mo Lin, Hae-Young Kim and John Michael Williamson; 8. General pharmacology Shaji Faisal and Ben Toure; 9. Anesthetics: gases and vapor Christopher R. Cowart; 10. Anesthetic-intravenous: opioids Vanny Le; 11. Anesthetic-intravenous Christopher Sikorski; 12. Anesthetic – local Christina L. Jeng and Chang H. Park; 13. Muscle relaxants (depolarizing, non-depolarizing) Katherine Loftus and Andrew Goldberg; 14. Evaluation of the patient and pre-operative preparation Ellen Flanagan; 15. Preparation for general anesthesia and premedication Daniel G. Springer and Theresa A. Gelzinis; 16. Regional anesthesia Ali Shariat; 17. General anesthesia Petrus Paulus Steyn and Jeffrey Derham; 18. Monitored anesthesia care and sedation Ethan Bryson; 19. Intravenous fluid therapy in the perioperative period Stefan A. Ianchulev and Charles P. Plant; 20. Complications (etiology, prevention, treatment) Andrew Glasgow; 21. Postanesthesia recovery period – analgesics Gabriel C. Baltazar, Anuj Malhotra and Rebecca E. Lee; 22. Postanesthesia recovery period – common scenarios Gabriel C. Baltazar and Rebecca E. Lee; 23. Central and peripheral nervous system Jung Kim; 24. Pain mechanisms and pathways James Yeh and Yury Khelemsky; 25. Autonomic nervous system Thomas Palaia, Joseph Park, Nakiyah Knibbs and Jeffrey Ciccone; 26. Central nervous system anatomy Devon Flaherty and Jonathan Gal; 27. Respiratory physiology Maria Castillo; 28. Respiratory system anatomy Samuel Hunter and Daniel Katz; 29. Respiratory system: pharmacology Kyle James Riley and Daniel Katz; 30. Cardiac physiology Denes Papp and Bhoumesh Patel; 31. Basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medications, defibrillators and advanced cardiac life support algorithms Agathe Streiff and Tyler Chernin; 32. Normal anatomy of heart and major vessels Claire Joseph and Diana Anca; 33. Cardiovascular pharmacology Edward Mathney; 34. Gastrointestinal systems Bryan Hill; 35. Renal anatomy and physiology Micheal Lazar; 36. Renal pharmacology Sanford Littwin; 37. Hematologic system: coagulation, anticoagulation, anti-platelet and thrombolytics Raj Parekh and Katelyn O'Connor; 38. Transfusions Christy Anthony and Michal Gajewski; 39. Reactions to transfusions Marc Sherwin, Natalie Smith and Sang J. Kim; 40. Endocrine and metabolic systems Daniel R. Mandell and Kathirvel Subramaniam; 41. Neuromuscular physiology and disorders Jacqueline Geier; 42. Special problems or issues in anesthesiology Martha Schuessler and Sanjana Vig.