What do you have in your coat pocket

[HeyDoc]

Hi, I'm getting ready to do a rotation in Anesth. and I was curious what you guys/gals are carrying in your coat pockets as guides?

I was thinking about getting Current Clinical Strategies, but any other small but very useful books????

thanks for the help

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[2ndyear]

When I did my anesthesiology rotation, I carried Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital. It's a good pocket book, but doesn't go into much physiology that you are more likely to (or at least I was) pimped about. It is, however, a book that goes through many different cases and the anesthesia plan. If you are seriously considering anesthesiology as a career, you may want to check out baby Miller as well. It is written more towards the basic science foundations of anesthesia and I thought that it was a great reference. I plan on trying to read the whole thing towards the end of my intern year, it's not that long.
Here's a link for the MGH book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...002-5130492-5744838?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[dukeybootie]

Have only flipped through Baby Miller but can't disagree with the recommendation. I would add for your consideration "Anesthesia Secrets" by James Duke--certainly more portable if I remember correctly! It scored massive points for me as a rotating student at UPenn, particularly the chapter on one-lung ventilation (which I read during a thoracic case). Not two days later I got a chance to sit down with the PD and he pimped me thoroughly on the topic. Let me just say that book had all the bases covered as far as that pimp session was concerned. The chapters are short and broken up into easy-to-read Q/A chunks too. Just don't leave it out for patients to see (but that's another story).

 

[HeyDoc]

thanks for the tips, I forgot to mention I do own the baby miller but there is no way I am carrying that around. I am looking towards Anesthesia as a career so I just want to make sure I'm ready when I start my rotations. Any other books anybody likes or is a "must have" book?

 

[JP2005]

white coats do not exist in the world of anesthesia (at least during my 3 weeks of it they didn't)......carried current clinical strategies in the back pocket of my scrubs......used secrets as well when i was home or in the library.....planning on using baby miller for the fall "audition" rotations.....

 

[InGasWeTrust]

I matched in anesthesia this past match.

For the most part you really dont need anything on you while in the OR. I mostly just listened to my resident and attending then would later go back and read up about it in baby miller or secrets.

Usually if you identify more senior residents who like to teach then you will find that your rotation/s will be quite fruitful.

I did carry a small book in the back pocket of my scrubs, it is called the HANDBOOK of ANESTHESIOLOGY by Mark Ezekiel MD

Concise, easy to read and locate topical info quickly, it also has drug dosing.

Good Luck