High-Risk Anesthesia Crisis Management

Four minutes. A category 1 cesarean, a failed airway and a falling saturation. This book tells you the next move, the dose, and why.

The patient is crashing. The surgeon is waiting. You have about sixty seconds to get it right.

A septic laparotomy at 2 a.m. with the norepinephrine climbing. A category 1 cesarean and a failed intubation. A child in laryngospasm, oxygen falling fast. These moments don't wait while you search an app or try to remember a dose from training. High-Risk Anesthesia Crisis Management is the anesthesia emergency handbook built for exactly those minutes.

Every chapter opens with a real-world case, then takes you through the crisis in the same color-coded order: how to recognize it, what to do first, the exact drug doses, how it kills, what to do when Plan A fails, and what to do afterward. No padding. Clear, plain English you can take in under pressure.

Current guidelines throughout
Checked against the 2025 AHA resuscitation guidelines, DAS 2025 difficult airway guidance, the ASA 2022 difficult airway guidelines, NAP7, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2026, SOAP, ASRA and MHAUS recommendations, with an evidence index for every chapter.

What's inside

• 53 chapters across 10 parts: shock and the unstable patient, the difficult airway, trauma and massive hemorrhage, septic and cardiogenic shock, perioperative cardiac arrest, obstetric anesthesia emergencies, pediatric and neonatal emergencies, and drug, metabolic and neurological crises
• Real drug doses for adults, obese patients and children, including push-dose pressors, vasopressor and inotrope infusion charts in mL/h, and weight-band pediatric dose tables
• Step-by-step algorithms for failed intubation and CICO, RSI, malignant hyperthermia, local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST), anaphylaxis, PPH, maternal cardiac arrest, high spinal, hyperkalemia and airway fire
• 10 one-page crisis checklists to photocopy for your anesthesia workstation
• 736 board-style questions with full rationales, including a 100-question practice exam
• Full-color illustrations and algorithms you can read in a hurry
• Chapters on handover, debriefing, disclosure, documentation and building a crisis-ready department