Anesthesiology Recommended Books by Program Directors

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[bigdan]

How did Miller's Anesthesia not make the list of texts for residents and attendings?

 

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[txhorn]

How about Morgan & Mikhail?

 

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[buccsmf1]

Thanks for the info!

as a ms3 getting ready for aways, I currently have NMS and pocket anesthesia. I plan on getting baby miller so I have something a little more substantial to reference during the aways. So far, I really like both nms and pocket anesthesia.

 

[VentdependenT]

I destroyed my inservice with
1) Faust
2)halls comprehensive review
3) mgh handbook

you left first 2 sources out. INVALUABLE.
I STILL read faust and mgh

 

[VentdependenT]

How about Morgan & Mikhail?

CRNA level reading

 

[.surgical.]

I destroyed my inservice with
1) Faust
2)halls comprehensive review
3) mgh handbook

you left first 2 sources out. INVALUABLE.
I STILL read faust and mgh

Specifically which MGH handbook

 

[VentdependenT]

Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital:

 

[psychbender]

What, no love for Yao? It's a great one for case prep and review for oral boards (note: have not taken oral boards, just extrapolating based on using it for practice exams).

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[VentdependenT]

Yao is very good as is Yudkowiz for clinal case prep.

Id say Hall and Faust are must haves for boards. Folks like big blue but I never used it. Got >90% on inservice every year back in the day.

 

[Ronin786]

Couldnt you have just removed the links from the post and at least kept all the names?

 

[Ronin786]

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[Random Anesthesiologist]

Thanks. I hope these can stay up. Helpful lists.

 

[Ronin786]

So the OP asked me to remove the list because it was his "hard work", so we might as well start a new list of our own and maybe put them in a sticky or another thread.

Based on the contributions in this thread:

Books for Medical Students:
1. Basics of Anesthesia by Miller (Baby Miller)
2. NMS Clinical Manual of Anesthesia

Books for residents and attendings:
1. Miller's Anesthesia
2. Faust's Anesthesiology Review
3. Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Review by Hall
4. Chestnut's Obstetric Anesthesia: Principles and Practice
5. A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children by Cote
6. Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease

Clincial Case Preparation:
1. Yao and Artusio's Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management
2. Clinical Cases in Anesthesia by Yudkowitz
3. Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures by Jaffe
4. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital


Board Review:

Any other contributions are welcome.

 

[HollATme]

Longnecker Anesthesiology is what I'm using at this time.

Miller/Barash were a snoozer. Longnecker keeps me connected.

Thoughts on Longnecker?

 

[pgg]

So the OP asked me to remove the list because it was his "hard work", so we might as well start a new list of our own and maybe put them in a sticky or another thread.

Sounds like someone was less interested in being helpful, and more interested in making $13 or so off Amazon commissions. Oh well. We can make the thread useful despite him.



Reference books I liked and still refer to
- Chestnut's OB anesthesia textbook
- Jaffe's Anesthesiologists' Manual of Surgical Procedures
- A Practical Approach To Cardiac Anesthesia
- Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease
- I used Cote's pediatric anesthesia textbook on peds rotations as a resident, don't have a copy now, but I never do tiny/sick kids so I don't really miss it

Others ... useful but not great
- Clinical Anes Procedures of Massachusetts Gen Hospital
- Reed's clinical anesthesia textbook (sort of a Yao & Artusio light ... easy casual reading)

I liked Longnecker better than Barash. Barash had an associated Q&A book that wasn't as good as Hall ... too much ridiculous minutia, but on the plus side its short quizzes matched up with each Barash chapter.

 

[HollATme]

Chestnut is good. It's required reading for us on OB. Admittedly, I haven't read much except for certain chapters - they are long, and my attention span is that of a gerbil.

Longnecker - for that big authoritative all-encompassing text, similar to Miller/Barash. Now with ITE over, I have moved on to this book.Currently reading the OB chapters since I am on my OB month. Goal is to finish the book by end of December of CA-2 year (currently am a CA-1).

I also like Reed's Clinical Cases. Lots of the stuff covered in the book showed up in the ITE. Wished I'd discovered this prior to ITE - came across this gem after ITE and looked up most that I could recall and most of it was in there.

My attendings all vouch for Yao, not used it yet. Will likely be read the 2nd half of CA-2 year.

CA-1 year: I actually liked Baby Miller however, it only began to click for me after reading through it the first time and then reading M&M once through. My favorite introductory book was Essential Clinical Anesthesia. I read through most of this book after baby miller + M&M once apiece.

Peds: I heard Miller is good for that - has Cote chapters in it.

Faust is stellar. I liked it more than Big Blue for ITE, but I did like Big Blue for daily reads. Michael Ho book for oral boards is great to read through casually while in the OR as well.

Not a gifted test-taker, but I did score a 31 on CA-1 ITE (solid, not spectacular I know) using Baby Miller, M&M, ECA, Faust, Hall. Goal is to obviously improve on the CA-2 ITE.

 

[Pooh & Annie]

I used M&M throughout the first two years, plus read lots of papers. I think it does a great job summarizing key points about the anesthetic necessities/risks specific to the various surgeries and comorbidities. I do agree with Vent though, that it teaches key points, NOT the details that a specialist in anesthesia should know. For that I usually used Barrash or read review articles.

I will say that after a pain fellowship, I felt a little distant from anesthesiology and needed quick prep for orals. A quick read through M&M and I felt comfortable with all the key points again.

 

[Sonny Crocket]

It almost doesnt matter what book you read as long as you read it.