Anesthesia and Uncommon Pediatric Diseases

Abstract

Dr Jordan Katz and colleagues in the Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Diego, in 1981 presented the second edition of their book<i>Anesthesia and Uncommon Diseases: Pathophysiologic and Clinical Correlations</i>.¹The first edition, published in 1973, had met a need in the anesthesia community for a compilation of the best basic science and clinical information then available regarding anesthetic management of uncommon medical and surgical conditions. The second edition, an update and expansion, recognized increasing subspecialization in anesthesiology and hence the need for a reference source regarding conditions that may have become uncommon for an individual practitioner. At about the same time, Dr David J. Steward, who was then chief of anesthesia at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (he is now anesthetist-in-chief at British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver), produced his excellent<i>Manual of Pediatric Anesthesia</i>.²Both editions (1979 and 1985) are augmented by an appendix,