This knowledge gives you confidence in the station. This practical textbook conveys the fundamentals of anesthesia, intensive care, emergency medicine, and pain therapy in easily understandable language and clear didactics. The book is ideal for aspiring anesthetists, students, and specialized nursing staff due to its practice-relevant presentation of the content. Numerous videos demonstrate how to perform the most important procedures, from establishing a peripheral venous access to placing a laryngeal mask. For the 10th edition, the book has been completely revised and updated. It includes numerous new and updated guidelines as well as official recommendations for anesthesia, such as new recommendations for the preoperative assessment of adult patients, new recommendations for checking the proper condition and functionality of the anesthesia equipment, new guidelines for difficult airway management, and new guidelines for malignant hyperthermia.

Numerous new and updated guidelines and official recommendations for intensive care medicine are also included, such as the new Sepsis-3 definition, SOFA score, Quick-SOFA, new DGEM guidelines for clinical nutrition in intensive care, PEG guidelines for calculated parenteral initial therapy of bacterial diseases in adults, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, diagnostics, prophylaxis, and treatment of delirium in intensive care patients, as well as subglottic secretion suctioning.

New and updated guidelines and official recommendations for emergency medicine are also presented, such as new guidelines for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and new guidelines for heart failure. More detailed discussions include videolaryngoscopic intubation, indications for potentially difficult mask ventilation or intubation, sedation in regional anesthesia, and therapeutic measures for intensive care patients with atrial fibrillation. Newly included topics are anesthesia.