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© 2006, Arun Kumar Paul

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First Edition: 2006

Typeset at JPBMP typesetting unit

Printed at Gopsons Paper Ltd, Noida

My object in presenting this book is to provide the students of anaesthesiology and practising anaesthetists with a workable outline of clinical anaesthetic management of common surgical problems. Most students of anaesthesiology have felt the necessity for a brief, concise, readable but comprehensive book on clinical anaesthesia which will help particularly in tackling the long and short cases encountered in their postgraduate diploma and degree examinations. The popular textbooks on anaesthesiology are usually voluminous and mostly designed as reference books and many times it becomes difficult for the common students to grasp the cleancut practical learning out of them. Practising anaesthetists are also reluctant to read the bulky and highly theoretical books. This present volume is my modest attempt to provide a useful practical guide book on anaesthetic care with a rational approach to clinical anaesthetic management. The subject is dealt as simply as possible, minimising the excessive details, redundancy and verbosity, to make the book easily manageable and readable by all concerned.