Tag Kevin K Tremper

Anesthetic Monitoring

INTRODUCTION Anesthesiologists have long been at the forefront of patient monitoring. This has been of necessity because we are responsible for continuously assessing the patient's physiologic status and the effects of surgery and anesthetic agents. This chapter provides an introduction…

Cigarette Smoking

Risk Smoking is the most common cause of preventable death. Half of cigarette smokers die of a smoking-related disease; on average, smokers lose at least 10 y of life expectancy. In USA, incidence of smoking is 17.8%: 42.1 million smokers…