- Uses a visual approach with excellent full-color line illustrations.
- Includes a bonus CD-ROM that allows you to download all of the book's figures into PowerPoint® for electronic presentations.
- Refers only to key references from primary papers keeping information that is the most up-to-date.
- Contains new chapters on: Adverse Drug Reactions (Ch. 10), Sensory Systems (Ch. 22), Physiology of Pain (Ch. 23), Mechanisms of Anesthesia (Ch. 24), Consciousness & Cognition (Ch.29), Sleep & Anesthesia (Ch. 30), and Physiology & Pharmacology of Blood Coagulation (Ch. 53).
- Includes increased coverage of ultrasound in anesthesiology and clinical care.
- Offers new information on genomics and proteomics.
- Shows "clinical pearls" boxes in every chapter for added speed in reference.
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