Textbook of Onco-Anesthesia & Critical Care

• This book is aimed at introducing new entrants in the field of oncoanesthesia to the intricacies of the art as well as the old hands to update them.
• How is the cancer epidemiology changing? Why oncoanesthesia is emerging as a daring new specialty?
• The neoadjuvant therapy in the form of chemotherapeutic drugs, radiation, and immunotherapy is changing the landscape and making patients more vulnerable to complications. Experts show a way to assess the effects of these therapies and manage the patients.
• Apart from the effect of these therapies on cancer, we see systemic effects. A how-to by the expert on tackling them.
• Enhanced recovery pathways for cancer surgeries and their impact on outcomes
• How to use risk stratification tools and how outcomes are assessed
• Details of management of specific cancers affecting various areas

o Head and neck cancer, the most common cancers, extensive resection and reconstruction with microvascular free flaps

o Breast oncosurgeries in patients who almost always receive neoadjuvant therapies

o The glamorous, exciting but dangerous thoracic surgeries

o The newer group of surgeries—CRS-HIPEC/HITAC/PIPAC

o Many more

• Relevant cancer critical care
• Managing pain and palliation and end-of-life care for those with terminal disease