With help from contributors in many surgical specialties as well as in anesthesia, certified registered nurse anesthetist Macksey describes the features of various kinds of surgery that affect the associated anesthesia. Her topics include positioning and patient effect, post-operative nausea and vomiting in neurovascular surgery, thoracic endoscopy, anesthetics and the heart during cardiac surgery, drugs to have available for gynecological surgery, and organ donor management. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)