Preface.- Contributors.- Section I: General.- Chapter 1. Should Recent Clinical Trials Change Perioperative Management in Patients with Cardiac Risk Factors?.- Chapter 2. Should Real-Time Ultrasound Guidance Be Routinely Used for Central Venous Catheter Placement?.- Chapter 3. A Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease Is Coming to the Operating Room for an Emergent Procedure, which Intravenous Fluid Do You Plan to Give Her?.- Chapter 4. Just say NO to Nitrous!.- Chapter 5. Closed Loop Anesthesia: Wave of the Future or No Future?.- Chapter 6. Should Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Preventative Ventilation Be Standard in the Adult Operating Room?.- Chapter 7. I Gave Rocuronium 3 Hours Ago, Do I Need to Reverse?.- Chapter 8. How Do You Recognize and Treat Perioperative Anaphylaxis?.- Chapter 9. Is Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC) Safe for All Cases?.- Chapter 10. Does Electrophysiology Really Have to Reprogram My Patient?s Pacemaker Prior to Electroconvulsive Therapy?.- Chapter 11. When Can Transesophageal and Trans-Thoracic Echocardiography Be Useful in a Non-Cardiac Case?.- Chapter 12. Should Antifibrinolytics Be Used in Patients Undergoing Total Joint Replacements?.- Chapter 13. Will Operating Rooms Run More Efficiently when Anesthesiologists Get Involved in Their Management?.- Chapter 14. Are Outcomes Better for Trauma Patients Who Are Treated Early with Clotting Factors?.- Chapter 15. Should Cerebral Oximetry Be Employed in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery?.- Chapter 16. Is Normal Saline Solution the Best Crystalloid for Intravascular Volume Resuscitation?.- Section II: Cardiac.- Chapter 17. Should Local Anesthesia with Conscious Sedation Be Considered the Standard of Care over General Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement via the Transfemoral Approach?.- Chapter 18. Should Antiplatelet Therapy Be Stopped Preoperatively in a Patient with Coronary Artery Stents?.- Chapter 19. Is Extubating My Cardiac Surgery Patient Postoperatively in the Operating Room a Good Idea?.- Chapter 20. Is a Pulmonary Artery Catheter Needed if You Have Transesophageal Echocardiography in a Routine Coronary Artery Bypass Graft?.- Chapter 21. When Should You Transfuse a Patient Who Is Bleeding After Cardiopulmonary Bypass?.- Chapter 22. Neuraxial Versus General Anesthesia in a Patient with Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis.- Chapter 23. Should High-Risk Cardiac Patients Receive Perioperative Statins?.- Chapter 24. Cardiopulmonary Bypass Cases: To Hemodilute or Not?.- Chapter 25. Are Seizures Really a Problem After the Use of Antifibrinolytics?.- Chapter 26. Is Regional Anesthesia for Cardiac Surgery a Good Idea?.- Chapter 27. Are Surgical and Anesthesia Medical Missions in Developing Countries Helping or Hurting?: The Evolving Fields of Global Anesthesia and Global Surgery.- Section III: Thoracic.- Chapter 28. Can Oxygenation in Single-Lung Thoracic Surgery Be Affected by Inhibition of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction?.- Chapter 29. Is a Bronchial Blocker Just as Good as a Double-Lumen Tube for Achieving Adequate Lung Isolation?.- Chapter 30. Your Thoracic Epidural Is Not Working: How Do You Provide Analgesia Post-Thoracotomy?.- Section IV: Pediatric.- Chapter 31. Pediatric Upper Respiratory Infection: You Cancelled the Case and Told the Parents to Reschedule, Right?.- Chapter 32. Does a Low Mean Blood Pressure in the Neonate Under Anesthesia Lead to Cognitive Deficits?.- Chapter 33. Does Rapid Sequence Induction Have a Role in Pediatric Anesthesia?.- Chapter 34. Anesthetic Neurotoxicity: Is Anesthesia Toxic to the Developing Brain? Should I Cancel My Baby?s Surgery?.- Chapter 35. Should an Anxious Parent Be Allowed to Be Present for the Induction of Anesthesia in Her Child?.- Chapter 36. What Is the Role of Premedication in the Pediatric Patient?.- Chapter 37. Presence of Family Members in the Operatin