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Essence of Anesthesia Practice e Book 4th Edition Ebook PDF
Essence of Anesthesia Practice e Book 4th Edition Ebook PDF
Essence of Anesthesia Practice e Book 4th Edition Ebook PDF
Lee A. Fleisher, MD
Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael F. Roizen, MD
Roizen Family Chair
Wellness Institute
Professor of Anesthesiology
Chief Wellness Officer
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Gout
Schizophrenia
Bracken J. De Witt, MD, PhD Washington, District of Columbia
Chagas Disease
Assistant Professor
Wegener Granulomatosis (Granulomatosis With Department of Anesthesia
Polyangiitis) Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Sarah Deverman, MD
New Orleans, Louisiana Assistant Professor, Pediatric Anesthesiology
Craig E. Cummings, MD Ephedra (Ma-Huang) Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Stacie Deiner, MS, MD Oregon Health and Sciences University
Portland, Oregon
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Neurosurgery,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tetralogy of Fallot
Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Familial Dysautonomia (Riley-Day Syndrome) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York Pascale Dewachter, MD, PhD
Chris J. Curatolo, MD, MEM Parkinson Disease (Paralysis Agitans) Anesthesiologist
Fellow, Division of Pain Management Service d’Anesthésie-Réanimation
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Medicine
Francina Del Pino, MD Groupe Hospitalier de Paris-Seine-Saint-Denis
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and INSERM
Fellow, Pediatric Anesthesiology
The Mount Sinai Hospital UMR-S970, Sorbonne Paris Cité
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Paris, France
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
New York, New York Mastocytosis
Craniosynostosis
Naltrexone
M. Veronica Dioverti, MD Thomas J. Ebert, MD, PhD Jonathan P. Eskander, MD, MBA
Instructor in Medicine Professor of Anesthesiology Resident
Department of Infectious Diseases Department of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic Medical College of Wisconsin Tulane/LSU Health
Rochester, Minnesota Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center New Orleans, Louisiana
Cytomegalovirus Infection Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gingko biloba
Familial Dysautonomia (Riley-Day Syndrome)
Jeffrey B. Dobyns, DO Nauder Faraday, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Matthias Eikermann, MD, PhD Professor, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine,
Perioperative Medicine Clinical Director Surgery, and Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Medicine Medicine Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham, Alabama Massachusetts General Hospital Thrombocytopenia
Hepatitis, Halothane Boston, Massachusetts
Swallowing Disorders Sarah C. Fausel, BA
Karen B. Domino, MD, MPH Medical Student
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research Seth Eisdorfer, MD School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Assistant Professor Oregon Health and Science University
University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington University of Colorado School of Medicine Anemia, Hemolytic
Silicosis Section of Pediatric Anesthesiology Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Andra E. Duncan, MD, MS Aurora, Colorado
Gonorrhea
William J. Fawcett, FRCA,
Assistant Professor FFPMRCA
Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Karim El Harchaoui, MD, PhD Department of Anaesthetics
Cleveland, Ohio Department of Anesthesiology Royal Surrey County Hospital
Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive Gelre Hospital Apeldoorn Guildford, United Kingdom
Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Honorary Senior Lecturer
Lauren K. Dunn, MD, PhD Spinal Muscular Atrophy University College London
Assistant Professor London, United Kingdom
Amir Elhassan, MD
CONTRIBUTORS
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
San Antonio, Texas Rheumatoid Arthritis
Pickwickian Syndrome Scleroderma Steven M. Frank, MD
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators Associate Professor
Smallpox
Gordon N. Finlayson, BSc, MD, Spasmodic Torticollis
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Medicine
FRCP Spinal Cord Injury Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist Sildenafil Citrate Baltimore, Maryland
Department of Anesthesiology St. John’s Wort (Hypercium perforatum) Anemia, Megaloblastic
University of British Columbia Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Polycythemia Vera
Vancouver General Hospital Subphrenic Abscess
Vancouver, Canada Supraventricular Tachycardia (Tachyarrhythmias)
Guillain-Barré Syndrome Syndrome X Geoff Frawley, MBBS, FANZCA
Tacrolimus (FK-506) Anaesthetist
Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management
Gregory W. Fischer, MD Upper Respiratory Infections
Royal Children’s Hospital
Professor and Chairman Urinary Lithiasis
Urticaria, Cold Anaesthesia and Pain Management Research Group
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Medicine Valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
Varicella-Zoster Virus Clinical Associate Professor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Paediatrics
New York, New York Warfarin (Coumadin)
Melbourne University
Ventricular Septal Rupture (Defect), Postmyocardial Melbourne, Australia
Infarction Melinda L. Fleming, MD, FRCPC Crouzon Syndrome
Program Director
Lee A. Fleisher, MD Postgraduate Anesthesiology Residency Program
Julie K. Freed, MD, PhD
Robert D. Dripps Professor and Chair of Assistant Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Anesthesiologist
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Adult Cardiothoracic
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pediatrics
Queen’s University Medical College of Wisconsin
Pennsylvania Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kingston, Canada
Tracheoesophageal Fistula (Congenital) Endocardial Cushion Defect (Atrioventricular Canal)
Addison Disease
Angina, Chronic Stable
ACE Inhibitors Ronda R. Flower, MD Lewis Fry, MBBS, BMedSci
Antianxiety Medications Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesia (Student)
Aspirin (Acetylsalicyclic Acid) Department of Anesthesiology Medical Student
Autoimmune Diseases, Cold Louisiana State University School of Medicine Monash University
Beckwith-Widemann Syndrome New Orleans, Louisiana Melbourne, Australia
Bernard-Soulier Syndrome Bulimia Nervosa Substance Abuse Disorder (Perioperative)
Carpenter Syndrome (Acrocephalopolysyndactyly Type II)
Chagas Disease
Chromium David N. Flynn, MD, MBA Robert A. Fry, MBChB, FANZCA
Resident of Anesthesiology Consultant Anaesthetist
Creatinine
Department of Anesthesiology Auckland City Hospital
Cromolyn Sodium
University of Pennsylvania Auckland, New Zealand
Dandy-Walker Syndrome
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Substance Abuse Disorder (Perioperative)
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Friedreich Ataxia Hypoparathyroidism
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Contributors
C. William Hanson III, MD, FCCM John A. Helmstetter, MD Charles W. Hogue Jr., MD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Anesthesia Resident Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania LSU Health Sciences Center Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New Orleans, Louisiana Chief
Bronchitis, Chronic Evening Primrose Division of Adult Anesthesia
Hypercalcemia Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Charles B. Hantler, MD Lithium Carbonate (Lithobid) Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
Professor
Department of Anesthesiology Adrian Hendrickse, BM, FRCA Chagas Disease
Washington University School of Medicine Associate Professor
St. Louis, Missouri Department of Anesthesiology Natalie F. Holt, MD, MPH
Adrenal Insufficiency, Acute or Secondary University of Colorado Assistant Professor
Aurora, Colorado Department of Anesthesiology
Jonathan G. Hardman, BMedSci Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
(Hons), BM, BS, FANZCA, FRCA,
DM Greg Hertel, MD Staff Anesthesiologist and Medical Director
Ambulatory Procedures Unit
Resident
Professor and Head of Department Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, West Haven
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Anaesthesia and Critical Care Campus
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine West Haven, Connecticut
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Nottingham Diabetes Insipidus
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Hyperaldosteronism, Primary
Hyperaldosteronism, Secondary Eric J. Heyer, MD, PhD Jiri Horak, MD
Anesthesiology Resident
Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology and Neurology
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Matthew Hart, MS, CRNA Special Research Scientist
Department of Neurological Surgery University of Pennsylvania
Chief Nurse Anesthetist Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Noonan Syndrome
New York, New York
Oregon Health and Science University
Cerebrovascular Transient Ischemic Attack
Portland, Oregon
Bronchiectasis Lyndsay M. Hoy, MD
James G. Hilliard, MS, CRNA Clinical Instructor
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
CONTRIBUTORS
Timothy Heinke, MD Instructor, School of Medicine
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Oregon Health and Science University
Medical University of South Carolina Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators
Portland, Oregon
Charleston, South Carolina
Ginseng
Coronary Artery Disease (Left Main and Non–Left
Main Disease) Nathaniel N. Hsu, MD
Roberta Hines, MD Instructor and OB Anesthesia Fellow
Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Erik M. Helander, MBBS Nicholas M. Greene Professor
Department of Anesthesiology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Anesthesiology Resident Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yale University School of Medicine
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Abruptio Placentae
New Haven, Connecticut
New Orleans, Louisiana Pregnancy, Intra-Abdominal
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Hypermagnesemia
Opitz-Frias Syndrome (The G Syndrome)
Lipidemias
Stephanie Huang, MD
Mark Helfaer, MD Natalia Hnatiuk, MD Resident Physician
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care University of Pennsylvania
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Pediatrics and Nursing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
American Anesthesiology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Royal Oak, Michigan
Friedreich Ataxia
Subclavian Steal Syndrome Julie L. Huffmyer, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Joshua A. Heller, MD Anthony M.-H. Ho, MD, FRCPC, Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor University of Virginia
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai FCCP Charlottesville, Virginia
Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Professor and Director of Pediatric Anesthesia Cystic Fibrosis
Hospitals Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative
New York, New York Medicine
Marfan Syndrome Queen’s University Hayden R. Hughes, JD, MD
Kingston, Canada Assistant Professor
Tracheoesophageal Fistula (Congenital) University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lori B. Heller, MD Birmingham, Alabama
Medical Director Anemia, Chronic Disease/Inflammation
Swedish Blood Management Program Rosemary M.G. Hogg, MB, ChB,
Department of Anesthesiology FRCA, MD James W. Ibinson, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac Anesthesia Consultant Anaesthetist
Assistant Professor
Clinical Instructor Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Department of Anesthesiology and Clinical and
University of Washington Belfast, Northern Ireland
Translational Science Institute
Seattle, Washington Chondroitin Sulfate
University of Pittsburgh
Pseudoephedrine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Glaucoma, Open-Angle
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
Michael R. King, MD SUNY Distinguished Professor
Instructor Anesthesiology
David Geffen School of Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine State University of New York at Buffalo
University of California Los Angeles Attending Anesthesiologist Buffalo, New York
Los Angeles, California Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago IgA Deficiency
Reye Syndrome Chicago, Illinois Immune Suppression
Malignant Hyperthermia and Other Anesthetic-Induced Q Fever
Sabry Khalil, MD Myodystrophies Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Staff Neuroanesthesiologist
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jeffrey R. Kirsch, MD W. Andrew Kofke, MD, MBA,
Assistant Professor
Professor and Chair FCCM
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Professor
University of Queensland Medicine Director of Neuroanesthesia
Brisbane, Australia Associate Dean for Clinical and Veterans Affairs Co-Director of Neurocritical Care
Multiple Sclerosis Oregon Health and Science University Departments of Anesthesia and Neurosurgery
Portland, Oregon University of Pennsylvania
Robyna Irshad Khan, FCPS (Anes- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
thesiology), MHSc (Bioethics) Amphetamines Seizures, Epileptic
Associate Professor Bronchiectasis
Cogan Syndrome
Department of Anaesthesiology
Aga Khan University De Morsier Syndrome Antoun Koht, MD
Foreign Body Aspiration Professor
Karachi, Pakistan
Gastrinoma Departments of Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery,
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Ginseng and Neurology
Histiocytosis Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Wajid M. Khan, MBBS, FCPS, Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome Chicago, Illinois
FCAI, DPMCAI Marijuana Infratentorial Tumors
Anesthesiologi Pericardial Effusion Supratentorial Brain Tumors
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Thiazolidinediones
University College Vitamin K Deficiency Guy Kositratna, MD
Dublin, Ireland Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Visiting Scholar
Lymphomas Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
John Kissko III, BCE, MS, MD University of Pennsylvania
Puneet Khanna, MBBS, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor Critical Care Seizures, Epileptic
Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Attending Anesthesiologist
Critical Care Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Alf Kozian, MD, PhD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Assistant Professor
New Delhi, India Cephalopelvic Disproportion Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Sturge-Weber Syndrome Ludwig Angina Medicine
Uterine Rupture Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
Niemann-Pick Disease xvii
Contributors
School of Medicine Columbia University Medical Center University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
New Orleans, Louisiana New York, New York Little Rock, Arkansas
Cerebral Palsy Riley-Day Syndrome (Familial Dysautonomia, Hereditary Diabetes, Type III (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus)
and Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy Type III)
J. Lance LaFleur, MD, MBA Karen S. Lindeman, MD
Department of Anesthesiology Marshall K. Lee, MD Associate Professor
University of Texas Medical School Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine
Houston, Texas Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative The Johns Hopkins University
Pyridostigmine Bromide Medicine Baltimore, Maryland
Oregon Health and Science University Placenta Previa
Kirk Lalwani, MB, BS, FRCA, MCR Portland, Oregon
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics Complement Deficiency Regina Linganna, MD
Vice-Chair for Faculty Development Resident Physician
Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Clinical Research) Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oregon Health and Science University Assistant Adjunct Professor
Portland, Oregon Long QT Syndrome
University of California San Francisco
Anemia, Hemolytic San Francisco, California
Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation Anesthesiologist Ronald S. Litman, DO
Echinacea (American Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, E. Royal Columbian Hospital Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Angustifolia, E. Purpurea, E. Pallida) New Westminster, Canada Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Tetanus Nicotine Replacement Therapies Pennsylvania
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
William L. Lanier, MD Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Professor of Anesthesiology Klippel-Feil Syndrome
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Chair
Department of Anesthesiology Malignant Hyperthermia and Other Anesthetic-Induced
Department of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic Myodystrophies
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Rochester, Minnesota University at Buffalo
Hyperglycemia Buffalo, New York Geoffrey L. Liu, BA
Alkylating Agents Medical Student
Gregory J. Latham, MD Bleomycin Tulane University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellowship Maggie Lesley, MD Hyperparathyroidism
University of Washington Assistant Professor
Seattle Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Seattle, Washington Medicine
Transposition of the Great Arteries Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Jaundice
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Birmingham, Alabama Baltimore, Maryland
Philip D. Lumb, MB, BS, MCCM Hepatitis, Halothane Placenta Previa
Professor of Anesthesiology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern
California Dennis T. Mangano, MD, PhD Cory D. Maxwell, MD, FASE
Editor-in-Chief Director and Founder Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
The Journal of Critical Care McSPI Research Group Durham VA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Lyme Disease Myocardial Ischemia Department of Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Division
Astri M.V. Luoma, MBChB, FRCA Luiz Maracaja, MD Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Consultant Neuroanaesthetist Assistant Professor
Cardiomyopathy, Ischemic
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Department of Anesthesiology
University College London Hospitals NHS University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Foundation Trust Antonio Lynne G. Maxwell, MD, FAAP
London, United Kingdom San Antonio, Texas Senior Anesthesiologist
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Mitral Regurgitation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Medicine
Anne M. Lynn, MD The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor, Anesthesiology and Pediatrics (Adjunct) Inna Maranets, MD Emeritus Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
University of Washington School of Medicine Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania
Seattle Children’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seattle, Washington University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Duodenal Atresia
Jeune Syndrome (Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy) Attending Anesthesiologist
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Jonathan G. Ma, MD Hartford, Connecticut C. David Mazer, MD, FRCPC
Resident Eisenmerger Syndrome Professor of Anesthesia and Physiology
Department of Anesthesiology Pyloric Stenosis Department of Anesthesia
Louisiana State University Treacher Collins Syndrome Keenan Research Center in the Li Ka Shing
New Orleans, Louisiana Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Gingko biloba Piedad Cecilia Echeverry Marín, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Herpes, Type II
Hypernatremia
MD Cilostazol
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Hypertension, Uncontrolled With Cardiomyopathy Coordinator of National Committee of Pediatric
Hypopituitarism Anesthesia Niamh A. McAuliffe, MBBCh,
Tetracyclines Colombian Society of Anesthesia FCARCSI, FRCPC
Instituto de Ortopedia Infantil Roosevelt Staff Anesthesiologist
Emily J. MacKay, DO Bogota, Colombia St. Michael’s Hospital
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellow Scimitar Syndrome Lecturer
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care University of Toronto
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Toronto, Canada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cilostazol
Pneumonia, Community-Acquired
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Contributors
Nader D. Nader, MD, PhD, FACC, Stavroula Nikolaidis, MD Peter M. Odor, BM, BCh, MA,
FCCP Associate Professor of Anesthesiology FRCA
Department of Anesthesiology Anaesthetic Specialist Registrar
Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Texas A&M University St. George’s University Hospital
Research Professor of Pathology and Anatomical
Baylor Scott and White Healthcare London, United Kingdom
Sciences
Temple, Texas Ventricular Preexcitation Syndrome
State University of New York at Buffalo
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
Buffalo, New York
Immune Suppression Sheri Jones Oguh, MD
Sara Nikravan, MD Resident
Abhijit S. Nair, MD, FWAMS Assistant Professor
Director of Critical Care Ultrasound
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Consultant Anesthesiologist University of Pennsylvania
Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and
Stanford University Pompe Disease
Research Institute
Stanford, California
Hyderabad, India
Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone
Digitalis (Digoxin) Andrew Oken, MD
Associate Professor
Manchula Navaratnam, MBChB, Dolores B. Njoku, MD Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor
FRCA Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics
Oregon Health and Science University
Assistant Chief, Department of Anesthesiology
Clinical Assistant Professor and Pathology Section Chief, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Johns Hopkins University Operative Care Division
Medicine Baltimore, Maryland Portland VA Medical Center
Stanford Children’s Hospital Subclavian Steal Syndrome Portland, Oregon
Palo, Alto, California
CONTRIBUTORS
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
Truncus Arteriosus
Mary J. Njoku, MD Pulmonary Fibrosis, Idiopathic
Associate Professor
Mark T. Nelson, MD, MEd Department of Anesthesiology Onyi Onuoha, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor University of Maryland School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology Baltimore, Maryland Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Virginia Commonwealth University Encephalitis Medicine
Richmond, Virginia
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Pulmonary Atresia
Katherine L. Norgaard, MD Pennsylvania
Instructor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Edward C. Nemergut, MD Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Frederic A. Berry Professor of Anesthesiology Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension
Professor of Neurosurgery Baltimore, Maryland Vitamin B12/Folate Deficiency
Department of Anesthesiology Anemia, Megaloblastic
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia Nathan G. Orgain, MD
Cystic Fibrosis Fredrick Ntumy, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Clinical Anesthesia Resident University of Utah School of Medicine
Pituitary Tumors
Department of Anesthesiology Salt Lake City, Utah
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Cigarette Smoking Cessation
Michael E. Nemergut, MD, PhD Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Preoperative
Royal Oak, Michigan Pedro Orozco, MD
Hemosiderosis, Pulmonary Clinical Instructor
Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota Danuza Nunn, MS, CCC-SLP University of California Irvine
Speech Language Pathologist Irvine, California
Sickle Cell Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatoid Arthritis
Boston, Massachusetts
Bradley K.W. Ng, MD, FRANZCP Swallowing Disorders Andreas M. Ostermeier, MD
Psychiatrist
Physician
Robina Private Hospital
Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service Ijeoma Nwachukwu, MD Clinic for Anesthesiology
Resident Physician University of Munich
Queensland, Australia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Munich, Germany
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Sleep Apnea, Central and Mixed
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thai T. Nguyen, MD, PhD Antianxiety Medications Ira Padnos, MD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Medicine Omonele O. Nwokolo, MD Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Anesthesiology New Orleans, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
University of Texas Lithium Carbonate (Lithobid)
ACE Inhibitors
Houston, Texas
Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
University of Texas Medical Branch Assistant Professor
Galveston, Texas Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Dallas D. Regan, DNP, CRNA
Renal Failure, Chronic University of Iowa Hospitals Nurse Anesthetist and Senior Instructor
Iowa City, Iowa Oregon Health and Science University
Mesothelioma Portland, Oregon
Bridget Perrin Pulos, MD Thiazolidinediones
Fellow in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain
Medicine Mohamed Ehab Ramadan,
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care MBBCh, MSC David L. Reich, MD
University of Pennsylvania Research Fellow President and Chief Operating Officer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Anesthesiology Department The Mount Sinai Hospital
Glucosamine Sulfate The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology,
Columbus, Ohio Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Researcher Assistant of Anesthesiology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kavitha Pundi, MD Theodor Bilharz Research Institute New York, New York
Advanced Imaging Fellow Ventricular Septal Defect (Congenital)
Giza, Egypt
Department of Pediatric Cardiology Ventricular Septal Rupture (Defect), Postmyocardial
Acute Intermittent Porphyria
Texas Children’s Hospital Infarction
Houston, Texas
Ebstein Anomaly Chandra Ramamoorthy, MD
Professor and Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Clare H. Ridley, MD
Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist and Intensivist
Ferenc Puskas, MD, PhD Medicine Washington University
Associate Professor St. Louis, Missouri
Stanford Children’s Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology Adrenal Insufficiency, Acute or Secondary
Palo Alto, California
University of Colorado Truncus Arteriosus
Aurora, Colorado
Coronary Artery Spasm James M. Riopelle, MD
Justin D. Ramos, MD Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Resident Physician Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Aliaksei Pustavoitau, MD, MHS Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative New Orleans, Louisiana
Assistant Professor Echinococcosis
Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Oregon Health and Science University
Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Portland, Oregon Stacey A. Rizza, MD, FIDSA
Acidosis, Lactic/Metabolic Associate Professor of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock Department of Infectious Diseases
Jaundice
Thrombocytopenia Mayo Clinic
James A. Ramsey, MD Rochester, Minnesota
Assistant Professor Cytomegalovirus Infection
Carlos A. Puyo, MD, FCCP Department of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor Multi-Specialty Division
Department of Anesthesiology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Division of Clinical and Translational Medicine Nashville, Tennessee
Washington University School of Medicine Syndrome X
St. Louis, Missouri
Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection xxiii
Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Senior Associate in Anesthesia
Pain Medicine Fellow Alan Jay Schwartz, MD, MSEd Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Director of Education Harvard Medical School
Houston, Texas Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain
Asthma, Acute The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Medicine
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Boston Children’s Hospital
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Boston, Massachusetts
Thomas Schilling, MD, PhD, DEAA Pennsylvania Prader-Willi Syndrome
Clinical Assistant Professor Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medicine
Apnea of the Newborn Pranav R. Shah, MD
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Assistant Professor
Magdeburg, Germany Jamie McElrath Schwartz, MD Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Niemann-Pick Disease Attending Physician Medicine
Department of Critical Care Medicine and Virginia Commonwealth University
Anesthesiology Richmond, Virginia
R. Alexander Schlichter, MD Children’s National Medical Center Sick Sinus Syndrome
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Assistant Professor
Critical Care
Chief of Neuroanesthesia, Hospital of the University
Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
George Washington University School of Medicine
Ronak Shah, MD
of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, Adult Cardiothoracic
Washington, District of Columbia
Chief of Anesthesia for Interventional Radiology, Anesthesiology
Single (Including Common) Ventricle
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Arnold-Chiari Malformation (Chiari Malformation Type II) John W. Sear, MA, PhD, MBBS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chiari Malformations FFARCS, FANZCA Myocarditis
Seizures, Epileptic Professor
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics Jessica L. Shanahan, MD
Eric Schnell, MD, PhD University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Director of Preadmission Services
Staff Anesthesiologist Department of Anesthesiology
VA Portland Health Care System VA Boston Healthcare System
Assistant Professor Sankalp Sehgal, MD West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Attending Anesthesiologist Brain Death
Medicine Department of Anesthesiology
Oregon Health and Science University Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Ankur Sharma, MBBS, MD, DNB,
Portland, Oregon
Phenothiazines
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York
MNAMS, FCCS
Senior Research Associate
Graves Disease Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain
Robert B. Schonberger, MD Medicine
Fellow of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Clinical Sudipta Sen, MBBS All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Research Assistant Professor Ansari Nagar, India
Department of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome
Yale University School of Medicine Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Haven, Connecticut Shreveport, Louisiana
Aortic Regurgitation S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine xxv
Contributors
Joanne Shay, MD, MBA Ashish C. Sinha, MD, PhD, MBA Janelle B. Snoddy, MD
Assistant Professor Professor Resident Physician
Director of Pediatric Remote Anesthesia Services Department of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Pediatric Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Katz School of Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spinal Cord Injury
Anemia, Aplastic Cancer, Bladder
Candidiasis
CREST Syndrome
Cobin D. Soelberg, MD, JD, MBe
Stephen J. Shepherd, MBBS, Depression, Unipolar
Assistant Professor
MRCP, FRCA, FFICM Mediastinal Masses
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Morbid Obesity Portland, Oregon
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Wilson Disease
London, United Kingdom
Fluoxetine (Prozac) Renu Sinha, MBBS, MD
Professor
Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and
Betsy Ellen Soifer, MD, PhD
Veena Sheshadri, MBBS, MD Critical Care
Anesthesiologist
Operative Care Division
Clinical Fellow All India Institute of Medical Sciences Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine New Delhi, India Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and
University of Toronto Sturge-Weber Syndrome Perioperative Care
Toronto Western Hospital
Oregon Health and Science University
Toronto, Canada
Seizures, Tonic-Clonic (Grand Mal) Eellan Sivanesan, MD Portland, Oregon
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine Subphrenic Abscess
and Pain Management
Ramchandra Vinayak Shidhaye, University of Miami Amy O. Soleta, MD
MD, DA Miami, Florida Assistant Professor
Professor Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology Oregon Health and Science University
L.N. Medical College and J.K. Hospital Daniel C. Sizemore, MD Portland, Oregon
Bhopal, India Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency Kava
Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Vice Chair for Academic Affairs Plagiocephaly
Assistant Professor
CONTRIBUTORS
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Ventricular Preexcitation Syndrome Department of Anesthesiology
MBChB, MRCP, FRCA, EDIC, FFICM Wake Forest School of Medicine
Rae Stewart, MD Assistant Professor Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Anesthesiology Resident Hydrocephalus
Department of Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology University of Michigan
Montefiore Medical Center Ann Arbor, Michigan R. David Todd, MD
New York, New York Cigarette Smoking Interventional Pain Medicine
Colchicine Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance
René Tempelhoff, MD Nashville, Tennessee
Tracey L. Stierer, MD Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Washington University School of Medicine
Care Medicine St Louis, Missouri Brandon M. Togioka, MD
Director of Ambulatory Anesthesia Division Seizures, Intractable Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Oral Contraceptives John E. Tetzlaff, MD Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Professor of Anesthesiology
Hemochromatosis
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case
David F. Stowe, MD, PhD Western Reserve University Pemphigus
Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology Cleveland, Ohio
Medical College of Wisconsin Ankylosing Spondylitis De Q.H. Tran, MD, FRCPC
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering Degenerative Disk Disease Professor
Marquette University Montreal General Hospital
Senior Staff Anesthesiologist
Zablocki Veterans Medical Center Marie A. Theard, MD Department of Anesthesia
McGill University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Assistant Professor
Montreal, Canada
Serotonin: Agonists, Antagonists, and Reuptake Inhibitors Department of Anesthesiology
Bisphosphonates
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Erin A. Sullivan, MD Scoliosis and Kyphosis Kha M. Tran, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and
Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology Jacob Addison Thomas, MD Critical Care Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Resident Anesthesiologist
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Attending Anesthesiologist
Sick Sinus Syndrome University of Pennsylvania
Director, Fetal Anesthesia Services
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Medical Director, Bucks County Ambulatory Surgical
Associate Anesthesiologist
Dajin Sun, MD Department of Anesthesia Facility
Professor Emeritus The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Iowa
Department of Anesthesiology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Iowa City, Iowa
School of Medicine at Jiaotong University Bilirubinemia of the Newborn
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors; Reversible Inhibitors of
Shanghai, China Monoamine Oxidase
Carnitine
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Contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Diverticulosis Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Brain Injury, Traumatic Kartagener Syndrome New Orleans, Louisiana
Vitamin D Deficiency Hepatitis, Alcoholic
Mark S. Weiss, MD
Assistant Professor Glyn D. Williams, MBChB, FFA David A. Wyler, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Professor Assistant Professor
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurological
Pennsylvania Medicine Surgery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stanford University Division of Critical Care
Proton Pump Inhibitors Palo Alto, California Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience
Rheumatic Fever (Acute) and Rheumatic Heart Disease Dextrocardia Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Weissman, MD Sylvia H. Wilson, MD Huntington Disease
Professor and Chair Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Medicine
Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Miguel A. Yaport, MD
Medical University of South Carolina Anesthesiology Resident
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Charleston, South Carolina University of Pennsylvania Health System
Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Medicine Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jerusalem, Israel Addison Disease
Encephalopathy, Metabolic
Encephalopathy, Postanoxic Jimmy Windsor, MD Bernard-Soulier Syndrome
Protein C Deficiency Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Carl Ying, MD
University of New Mexico School of Medicine Anesthesia
Megan K. Werntz, MD Albuquerque, New Mexico Loma Linda University Medical Center
Anesthesiology Resident Tricuspid Atresia Loma Linda, California
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Achondroplasia, Dwarfism
Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University Gregory A. Wolff, BS, MD
Portland, Oregon Resident Physician Jeongae Yoon, MD
Hemochromatosis Department of Anesthesiology Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellow
Pemphigus University of Colorado Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Aurora, Colorado Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Cromolyn Sodium Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gina Whitney, MD Buerger Disease (Thromboangiitis Obliterans)
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatric Intensive Care Michael Wollenberg, MD
Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative
Nashville, Tennessee Medicine
Supraventricular Tachycardia (Tachyarrhythmias) Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Pulmonary Hypertension
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Contributors
Francine S. Yudkowitz, MD, FAAP Paul Zanaboni, MD, PhD Elizabeth Y. Zhou, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Medicine, and Pediatrics Department of Anesthesiology Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Washington University School of Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Pediatric Anesthesia St. Louis, Missouri Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Mount Sinai Hospital Cor Pulmonale Pericarditis, Constrictive
New York, New York
Congenital Pulmonary Lesions/Lobar Emphysema
Gastroesophageal Reflux in Children
Warren M. Zapol, MD Maurice S. Zwass, MD
Reginald Jenney Professor of Anaesthesia Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics
Moyamoya Department of Anesthesia Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Massachusetts General Hospital University of California San Francisco
James R. Zaidan, MD, MBA Boston, Massachusetts San Francisco, California
Professor of Anesthesiology Nitric Oxide, Inhaled Croup (Laryngotracheobronchitis)
Department of Anesthesiology Epiglottitis
Associate Dean for GME
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Mobitz I (Second-Degree Atrioventricular Block)
Mobitz II (Second-Degree Atrioventricular Block)
CONTRIBUTORS
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Preface
It has been 6 years since the last edition of Essence of Anesthesia Practice was published and
2 decades since the first edition. The goal of this text was, and continues to be, to provide a
concise summary that allows you to act for your patient with more complete knowledge of the
pathophysiology of both common and rare conditions seen in the perioperative period as well
as the medications used to treat these conditions. We have eliminated the summaries for surgi-
cal procedures in favor of more rare diseases as well as general drugs that patients take on an
outpatient basis.
These summaries are structured in a defined way to enable you to focus on the key facts and
issues as well as the anticipated concerns regarding these conditions and medications in order
that you, the anesthesiologists, can function as perioperative physicians and provide optimal care
of the patient. We have done PubMed and Google searches, selected key references, read the
articles and case reports, and boiled the hours of reading into 10 minutes of summary with all
the key points highlighted. Treatments, including medications for chronic conditions, continue
to evolve, and it is difficult to keep up with the perioperative implications and appropriate pre-
operative evaluation without this effort. We also felt that in previous editions we did not include
as many uncommon conditions as we would like and as you wanted. We therefore enrolled more
than 500 authors, some of whom wrote the original chapters and many of whom are new, and
have either updated the original chapters or added new topics to address these concerns in the
fourth edition of Essence of Anesthesia Practice.
PREFACE
This edition continues to improve and update the material that went before and to add the
most up-to-date topics and new medications. We continue to include a large section on herbal
medications given their popularity and common use by our surgical patients. We believe that the
current format lends itself to quick review and orientation of the practitioner to perioperative
implications at the point of care.
We wish to thank the authors of the previous edition upon which many of the new authors
produced revised chapters. We also thank Dolores Meloni, our Executive Content Strategist at
Elsevier, and Rae Robertson, our Senior Content Development Specialist, for ensuring that our
book received appropriate editing and development as well as providing the relentless support
for this text to be published in a timely manner.
Lee A. Fleisher, MD
Michael F. Roizen, MD
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Abbreviations
SYMBOLS ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis BOOP bronchiolitis obliterans with
± plus or minus ALT alanine aminotransferase cryptogenic organizing
? questionable Alv alveolar pneumonia
∼ approximately am morning BOS bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome
° C degrees centigrade AML acute myelogenous leukemia BP blood pressure
° F degrees Fahrenheit AMP adenosine monophosphate BPD bronchopulmonary dysplasia
1° primary; first degree ampl amplitude BPEG British Pacing and
2° secondary; second degree ANA antinuclear antibody Electrophysiology Group
3° third degree angio angiogram BPH benign prostatic hyperplasia/
ΔΔ delta gap ANS autonomic nervous system hypertrophy
ant anterior bpm beats per minute
A anticoag anticoagulation BPP biophysical profile
A-a alveolar-arterial AOM acute otitis media BRBPR bright red blood per rectum
AA arachidonic acid AP accessory pathway; action BS breath sounds
AAA abdominal aortic aneurysm potential; anteriorposterior BSA body surface area
A-aDO2 alveolar-arterial oxygen delivery APC activated protein C BT bleeding time; Blalock-Taussig
AAT alpha1-antitrypsin; automatic API alkaline protease inhibitor (shunt)
atrial tachycardia approx approximate; approximately BUN blood urea nitrogen
AAP American Academy of Pediatrics APTT activated partial thromboplastin BWS Beckwith-Wiedemann
abd abdomen; abdominal time syndrome
ABG arterial blood gas AR aortic regurgitation Bx biopsy
ABI aorto-bi-iliac bypass ARB angiotensin receptor BZD benzodiazepine
abd abdominal blocker
abn abnormal; abnormality ARDS acute respiratory distress C
ACE angiotensin-converting enzyme syndrome CA cancer, cold agglutinins
ACEI angiotensin-converting enzyme ARF acute renal failure ca. about (circa)
inhibitor art arterial Ca2+ calcium
ACG angle-closure glaucoma AS aortic stenosis CAB coronary artery bypass
Ach acetylcholine ASA acetylsalicylic acid; Adams- CABG coronary artery bypass graft
AChE acetylcholinesterase Stokes attack; American CACT carnitine-acylcarnitine
ACIP Advisory Committee on Society of Anesthesiologists translocase
Immunization Practices ASAP as soon as possible CAD coronary artery disease
ACL anterior cruciate ligament ASCVD atherosclerotic cardiovascular cAMP cyclic adenosine
ABBREVIATIONS
ACLS advanced cardiac life support disease monophosphate
ACOG American Congress of ASD atrial septal defect Cao2 arterial oxygen concentration
Obstetricians and ASRA American Society of Regional cardiopulm cardiopulmonary
Gynecologists Anesthesia CAS coronary artery spasm
ACS acute confusional state assoc associated CASS Coronary Artery Surgery Study
ACT activated clotting/coagulation AST aspartate aminotransferase CATCH 22 cardiac defect, abnormal facies,
time AT antithrombin thymic hypoplasia, cleft
ACTH adrenocorticotropic AT1 angiotensin receptor 1 palate, and hypocalcemia
ADEM acute disseminated ATG anti-thymus globulin (syndrome)
encephalomyelitis ATN acute tubular necrosis cath catheter; catheterization
ADH antidiuretic hormone ATP adenosine triphosphate; CBC complete blood count
ADHD attention-deficit hyperactivity antitachycardia pacing CBF cerebral blood flow
disorder Au gold CBG capillary blood glucose
ADI atlas-dens interval AV atrioventricular CBV cerebral blood volume
ADL activities of daily living AVB atrioventricular block CCAM congenital cystic adenomatoid
admin administration; administered AVM arteriovenous malformation malformation
ADP adenosine diphosphate AVR aortic valve replacement CCB calcium-channel blocker
AE alveolar echinococcus CCNU nitrosourea (lomustine)
AED automated external defibrillator B CD4 antigenic marker on helper/
AFE amniotic fluid embolism β-hCG beta human chorionic inducer T cells
AFIB atrial fibrillation gonadotropin CD4+ presence of CD4
AFLT atrial flutter BAER brainstem auditory evoked CDC Centers for Disease Control and
AFP alpha-fetoprotein response Prevention
AG anion gap BAL bronchoalveolar lavage CEA carotid endarterectomy
AH autonomic hyperreflexia BBB bundle branch block; blood- cGMP cyclic guanosine
AHQR Agency for Healthcare Research brain barrier monophosphate
and Quality BCI blunt cardiac injury C-GSF granulocyte colony-stimulating
AI aortic insufficiency BCNU nitrosourea (carmustine) factor
AICD automatic implantable BD Behçet disease CHARGE coloboma, congenital heart
cardioverter defibrillator BF bifascicular; blood flow defects, choanal atresia,
AIDS acquired immunodeficiency bid twice per day retardation of growth and/or
syndrome BIG botulism immune globulin other development, genital
AIH anesthetic-induced hepatitis bilat bilateral anomalies, and ear anomalies
AIM anesthetic-induced BIS bispectral index with deafness
myodystrophy BLS basic life support CHB complete heart block
AIP acute intermittent porphyria BLT bleomycin sulfate toxicity CHCT caffeine halothane contracture
AKA above-knee amputation; also BM bowel movement test
known as BMI body mass index CHD congenital heart disease;
AKI acute kidney injury BMP basic metabolic panel congenital heart defect
AKIN Acute Kidney Injury Network BMR basal metabolic rate ChE cholinesterase
ALA δ-aminolaevulinic acid
BMS bare metal stent CHF congestive heart failure
alb albumin BMT bone marrow transplantation CHO carbohydrate
alk phos alkaline phosphatase BMV bag mask ventilation CHTN congenital hypertension
A-line arterial line BNP brain natriuretic CI cardiac index; confidence
ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia BO bronchiolitis obliterans interval xxxvii
Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS
receptor Hct hematocrit mellitus
FIO2 fractional inspired oxygen HCTZ hydrochlorothiazide IDL intermediate-density lipoprotein
FIX factor IX HCV hepatitis C virus I:E inspiratory:expiratory ratio
FLAIR fluid-attenuated inversion HD heart disease; Hodgkin’s disease IFN interferon
recovery HDL high-density lipoprotein Ig immunoglobulin
FMTC familial medullary thyroid HDL-C HDL cholesterol IgA immunoglobulin A
carcinoma HDU high dependency unit IgE immunoglobulin E
FNA fine-needle aspiration HDV hepatitis D virus IgG immunoglobulin G
FOB fiberoptic bronchoscopy He helium IGF insulin-like growth factor
FOI fiber optic intubation HEENT head, eyes, ears, nose, throat IGF-I insulin-like growth factor I
FRC functional residual capacity HELLP hemolysis, elevated liver IgM immunoglobulin M
freq frequent; frequency enzymes, and low platelet IHD intermittent hemodialysis;
FS Fanconi syndrome count (syndrome) ischemic heart disease
FSBG fingerstick blood glucose heme hematology IL interleukin
FSH follicle-stimulating hormone HEPAT hepatic IM intramuscular
FSP fibrin split products HEV hepatitis E virus immuno immunologic
FT4E free thyroxine estimate HF heart failure in inch
FTT failure to thrive HFM hemifacial microsomia incl including
FVC forced vital capacity HFOV high-frequency oscillatory inf inferior
FVIII factor VIII ventilation info information
FVL factor V Leiden Hg mercury INFOSAN International Food Safeties
Hgb hemoglobin Authorities Network
G HGPRT hypoxanthine-guanine- INH isoniazid
G gauge phosphoribosyltransferase inj injection
G6PD glucose-6 phosphate HHS hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state INR international normalized ratio
dehydrogenase HHT hereditary hemorrhagic insp inspiratory
GA general anesthesia telangiectasia intox intoxication
GABA gamma-aminobutyric acid HHV-3-6 human herpes viruses intraop intraoperative
GAG glycosaminoglycan HIV human immunodeficiency virus IOL intraocular lens
GBE Ginkgo biloba extract
HLA human leukocyte antigen ION ischemic optic neuropathy
GBL gamma butyrolactone HLHS hypoplastic left heart syndrome IOP intraocular pressure
GBM glomerular basement membrane HMG CoA 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl IP impedance plethysmography;
GCS Glasgow coma scale HMPV human metapneumovirus intraperitoneal;
G-CSF granulocyte colony-stimulating HMSN hereditary motor and sensory intraperitoneally
factor neuropathy IPPB intermittent positive pressure
GDM gestational diabetes mellitus HN2 nitrogen mustard breathing
GE gastroesophageal HNP hernia nuclei pulposi IPF idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
GER gastroesophageal reflux h/o or H/O history of IPL intense pulsed light
GERD gastroesophageal reflux hosp hospitalization IPPV intermittent positive pressure
disease HPA hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ventilation
GFR glomerular filtration rate HPS hepatopulmonary syndrome iPTH intact parathyroid hormone
GGT gamma glutamyltransferase HPV hypoxic pulmonary IQ intelligence quotient
GH growth hormone vasoconstriction ITP immune thrombocytopenic
GHB gamma hydroxybutyrate h or hr hour(s) purpura
Gi inhibitory G protein HR heart rate IUGR intrauterine growth restriction xxxix
Abbreviations
IV intravenous M ms milliseconds
IVC inferior vena cava M male(s) MSK musculoskeletal
IVDU intravenous drug user M:F male to female ratio MSSA methicillin-sensitive
IVF intravascular fluid; intravenous M2 muscarinic Staphylococcus aureus
fluid MAC minimum alveolar MTTP microsomal triglyceride transfer
IVP intravenous pyelogram concentration; monitored protein
anesthesia care MTX methotrexate
J MACE minor adverse cardiac event MU million units
JEB junctional epidermolysis MAHA microangiopathic hemolytic mucocut mucocutaneous
bullosa anemia MUGA multiple gated acquisition
JGA juxtaglomerular apparatus MALA metformin-associated lactic musc muscular
JNC Joint National Committee acidosis MV mitral valve
JV jugular vein MAO monoamine oxidase MVA motor vehicle accident
JVD jugular venous distention MAOI monoamine oxidase inhibitor MVD microvascular decompression
JVP jugular venous pressure MAP mean arterial pressure MVP mitral valve prolapse
MAST medical antishock trousers MW molecular weight
K MAT multiform atrial tachycardia MYL Myleran (busulfan)
K+ potassium max maximum; maximal
KS Kartagener syndrome MBC maximal breathing capacity N
KSS Kearns-Sayre syndrome MC myotonia congenita N nitrogen
KUB kidney, ureter, and bladder MCV mean corpuscular volume n. nerve
MD muscular dystrophy N/A not applicable
L MDI metered-dose inhaler N/V nausea/vomiting
L left MEA multiple endocrine adenomas N2O dinitrogen monoxide (nitrous
LA left atrial; left atrium; linoleic mech mechanical; mechanism oxide)
acid; local anesthetic med medication Na+ sodium
lab laboratory MELAS mitochondrial NAAT nucleic acid amplification test
LAD left anterior descending encephalomyopathy, lactic NAC
N-acetyl-l-cysteine
(coronary artery) acidosis, and stroke-like NADH nicotinamide adenine
LAFB left anterior fascicular block symptoms dinucleotide reduced form
LAP left atrial pressure MEN multiple endocrine neoplasia NADPH nicotinamide adenine
lat lateral MEN I multiple endocrine neoplasia dinucleotide phosphate,
LBBB left bundle branch block type I reduced form
ABBREVIATIONS
LBM lean body mass MEN II multiple endocrine neoplasia NAPA N-acetyl procainamide
LCAT lecithin-cholesterol type II NASH non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
acyltransderase MEP motor/multimodality evoked naso nasograstric
LCH Langerhans cell histiocytosis potential NASPE North American Society of
LDH lactate dehydrogenase MERRF myoclonic epilepsy with ragged Pacing and Electrophysiology
LDL low-density lipoprotein red fibers NB nota bene (note well)
LDL-C LDL cholesterol MET metabolic equivalent NCS nerve conduction studies
L-DOPA levodopa Metab metabolism; metabolic NCV nerve conduction velocity
LE lower extremity metHb methemoglobin NDMB nondepolarizing neuromuscular
LES lower esophageal sphincter metHbemia methemoglobinemia blocker
LFT liver function test mets metastases NDMR nondepolarizing muscle relaxant
LGL Lown-Ganong-Levine MF-PCM marasmic form of protein Nd:YAG neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-
syndrome calorie malnutrition garnet
LH luteinizing hormone Mg2+ magnesium NE norepinephrine
LHON Leber hereditary optic MgSO4 magnesium sulfate NEB nebulizer
neuropathy MGUS monoclonal gammopathy of NEC necrotizing enterocolitis
LMA laryngeal mask airway undetermined significance neg negative
LMW low molecular weight MH malignant hyperthermia neuro neurologic
LMWH low molecular weight heparin MI myocardial infarction NF necrotizing fasciitis;
LOC level of consciousness; loss of MILS maternally inherited Leigh neurofibromatosis; neurologic
consciousness syndrome findings
LOS length of stay min minimal; minimum; minute NF-1 neurofibromatosis
LP lumbar puncture MIsch myocardial ischemia NG nasogastric
L-PAM melphalan (Alkeran) MIV mivacurium NGF nerve growth factor
LQTS long QT syndrome mm Hg millimeter(s) of mercury NGT nasogastric tube
LR lactated Ringer’s (solution) MMEFR maximal midexpiratory flow rate NH3 ammonia
LRI lower respiratory tract MMSE Mini–Mental State Examination NHANES National Health and Nutrition
infection mo month Examination Survey
LSB lumber sympathetic block mod moderate NHL non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
LSD lysergic acid diethylamide MODS multiorgan dysfunction NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and
LTG lamotrigine syndrome Blood Institute
L-to-R left to right MOF multiple organ failure NIBP noninvasive blood pressure
LUQ left upper quadrant MP mucopolysaccharide NICU neonatal intensive care unit
LV left ventricle MPAP mean pulmonary artery NIDDM non–insulin-dependent diabetes
LVAD left ventricular assist device pressure mellitus
LVEDP left ventricular end-diastolic MPS mucopolysaccharidoses NIF negative inspiratory force
pressure MR mitral regurgitation NIH National Institutes of Health
LVEDV left ventricular end-diastolic MRA magnetic resonance NIPHS noninsulinoma pancreatogenous
volume angiography hypoglycemia syndrome
LVEF left ventricular ejection MRI magnetic resonance imaging NIRS near-infrared spectroscopy
fraction MRSA methicillin-resistant NK natural killer (cell)
LVF left ventricular failure Staphylococcus aureus NM neuromuscular
LVH left ventricular hypertrophy MS mental status; mitral NMB neuromuscular blockade
LVOT left ventricular outflow tract stenosis; multiple sclerosis; NMBA neuromuscular blocking agent
xl lytes electrolytes musculoskeletal NMBD neuromuscular blocking drug
Abbreviations
NMDA N-methyl-d-aspartate
PAT paroxysmal atrial tachycardia PONV postoperative nausea and
NMJ neuromuscular junction Paw mean airway pressure vomiting
nml normal PAWP pulmonary artery wedge pos positive
NMO neuromyelitis optica pressure poss possible; possibly
NMS neuroleptic malignant syndrome PBC primary biliary cirrhosis postop postoperative
NO nitric oxide PBF pulmonary blood flow PPAR peroxisome proliferator-
no. number PBG porphobilinogen activated receptor
nondep nondepolarizing PBS peripheral blood smear PPD purified protein derivative
NP nasopharyngeal PCA patient-controlled analgesia (tuberculin)
NP-D Niemann-Pick disease PCC prothrombin complex PPH persistent pulmonary
NPH neutral protamine Hagedorn concentrate hypertension
NPO nil per os (nothing by mouth) PCD primary ciliary dyskinesia PPHN persistent pulmonary
NPPB normal perfusion pressure PCI percutaneous coronary hypertension of newborn
breakthrough (syndrome) intervention PPI proton pump inhibitor
NRI nutritional risk index PCM protein calorie malnutrition Pplat plateau pressure
NRT nictotine replacement therapy PCO polycystic ovary ppm parts per million
NS normal saline (solution) Pco2 partial pressure of carbon PPV positive predictive value;
NSAID nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory dioxide positive pressure ventilation
drug PCP phencyclidine PR per rectum
NT nasotracheal PCR polymerase chain reaction PRA plasma renin activity
NTG nitroglycerin PCW post conceptual week(s) PRBCs packed red blood cells
NTP nucleoside triphosphate PCWP pulmonary capillary wedge preop preoperative
NYHA New York Heart Association pressure prep preparation
PD Parkinson disease; peritoneal prn as needed
O dialysis PRS Pierre Robin sequence
O2 oxygen PDA patent ductus arteriosus PS pulmonary stenosis
OA osteoarthritis PDE II phosphodiesterase III PSA prostate-specific antigen
OAVRT orthodromic atrioventricular (inhibitors) PSC primary sclerosing cholangitis
reciprocating tachycardia PDL pulsed dye laser PSG polysomnography
OB obstetric PDPH post-dural puncture headache PSVT paroxysmal supraventricular
OB/GYN obstetrics/gynecology PD/PK pharmacodynamic/ tachycardia
OC oral contraceptive pharmacokinetic psych psychological
OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder PE physical examination; pt patient
ABBREVIATIONS
OD overdose preeclampsia; pressure PT physical therapy; prothrombin
OFC occipital frontal circumference equalization; pulmonary time
OG orogastric embolism PTCA percutaneous transluminal
OGT orogastric tube PEAC prolonged expiratory apnea with coronary angioplasty
OGTT oral glucose tolerance test cyanosis PTH parathyroid hormone
OHS obesity hypoventilation PEEP positive end-expiratory pressure PTLD post transplant
syndrome PEF peak expiratory flow lymphoproliferative disease
OKT3 Ortho Kung T cell PEG percutaneous endoscopic pts patients
(muromonab-CD3) gastrostomy PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder
OLD obstructive lung disease PEP positive expiratory pressure PTT partial thromboplastin time
OM otitis media periop perioperative PTU propylthiouracil
OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance PET positron emission tomography PUD peptic ulcer disease
in Man PETCO2 end-tidal partial pressure of pulm pulmonary
ONH optic nerve hypoplasia carbon dioxide PUVA psoralens plus ultraviolet A
OPHTH or PFO patent foramen ovale PVC polyvinyl chloride; premature
ophthal ophthalmologic PFT pulmonary function test ventricular contraction
OR operating room PG prostaglandin PVD peripheral vascular disease
ORIF open reduction internal fixation PGD2 prostaglandin D2 PVO2 partial pressure of oxygen,
ORTHO orthopedic PGE1 alprostadil (prostaglandin E1) venous
OSA obstructive sleep apnea pharm pharmaceutical; pharmacy PVR pulmonary vascular resistance
Osm osmole; osmolality pheo pheochromocytoma PVS primo vascular system
OTC over-the-counter pHTN pulmonary hypertension
physiol physiologic Q
P PID pelvic inflammatory disease Q perfusion
P phosphorus PIH pregnancy-induced q every
P(A-a)o2 alveolar-arterial oxygen hypertension q.a.m. every morning
difference PIP peak inspiratory pressure q.n. every night
PA plasma aldosterone; pulmonary pit pituitary q.p.m. every evening
artery PJP
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia qhs every hour of sleep
PAC premature atrial contraction pKa negative logarithm of the qid four times per day
Paco2 partial pressure of carbon dissociation constant of an Qp:Qs ratio of pulmonary blood to
dioxide, arterial acid systemic blood flow
PACU postanesthesia care unit PKU phenylketonuria QRS Q wave, R wave, S wave
PAF platelet activating factor plt(s) platelet(s) QSART quantitative sudomotor
PAH pulmonary arterial hypertension pM picomolar autonomic reflex testing
PAIR puncture-aspiration-injection- pm evening
respiration PMI posterior myocardial infarction; R
palp palpation of point of maximal intensity R right
Pao2 partial pressure of oxygen in PMS premenstrual syndrome R/O or r/o rule out
arterial blood PNB peripheral nerve block RA rheumatoid arthritis; right
PAOP pulmonary artery occlusion PND paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea atrial; right atrium
pressure PNS peripheral nervous system RAAS renin-angiotensin-aldosterone
PAP pulmonary artery pressure PO per os system
PAPVD partial anomalous pulmonary Po2 oxygen partial pressure RAD reactive airway disease
venous drainage PO4 phosphate RAE right atrial enlargement xli
Abbreviations
RAH right atrial hypertrophy SEB simplex epidermolysis TBI traumatic brain injury
RAI resting ankle index sec second(s) TBSA total body surface area
RAST radioallergosorbent test SEP sensory evoked potential TBW total body water
RBBB right bundle branch block SERM selective estrogen receptor TCA tricyclic antidepressant
RBC red blood cell modulator TCD transcranial Doppler
RBF renal blood flow SG specific gravity TCS Treacher Collins syndrome
RCM congenital methemoglobinemia SGOT aspartate aminotransferase; TCT thrombin clotting time
of the recessive type serum glutamic-oxaloacetic TEE transesophageal
RCRI Revised Cardiac Risk Index transaminase echocardiography
RCT randomized controlled trial SGPT alanine aminotransferase; TEF transesophageal fistula
RDA recommended daily allowance serum glutamate pyruvate TEG thromboelastography
RDS respiratory distress syndrome transaminase temp temperature
reg regular SIADH syndrome of inappropriate TEN toxic epidermal necrosis
rehab rehabilitation secretion of antidiuretic TENS transcutaneous electrical nerve
REM rapid eye movement hormone stimulation
reprod reproductive SICU surgical ICU tet tetralogy of Fallot
resp respiratory SIDS sudden infant death syndrome TFA trifluoroacetic acid
RFT respiratory function test SIRS systemic inflammatory response TFT thyroid function test
RH releasing hormone syndrome TGA transposition of the great
RHC right heart catheterization SJS Stevens-Johnson syndrome arteries
RHD rheumatic heart disease SJS-TEN Stevens-Johnson syndrome– TGF transforming growth factor
RHF right heart failure toxic epidermal necrolysis THAM tromethamine
RIA radioimmunoassay SL sublingual THC delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
RIPA ristocetin-induced platelet SLE systemic lupus erythematosus TIA transient ischemic attack
agglutination SMA superior mesenteric artery TIBC total iron-binding capacity
RLN recurrent laryngeal nerve SND sinus node dysfunction tid three times per day
RNA ribonucleic acid SNP single nucleotide polymorphism TIPS transjugular intrahepatic
ROM range of motion SNS sympathetic nervous system portosystemic shunt
ROP retinopathy of prematurity SOB shortness of breath TIVA total intravenous anesthesia
ROS review of systems SOBOE shortness of breath on exertion TJC The Joint Commission
ROSC return of spontaneous soln solution TKI tyrosine kinase inhibitor
circulation SPECT single-photon emission TLC total lung capacity/compliance
RPGN rapidly progressive computed tomography TM temporomandibular
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DANCE ON STILTS AT THE GIRLS’ UNYAGO, NIUCHI
I see increasing reason to believe that the view formed some time
back as to the origin of the Makonde bush is the correct one. I have
no doubt that it is not a natural product, but the result of human
occupation. Those parts of the high country where man—as a very
slight amount of practice enables the eye to perceive at once—has not
yet penetrated with axe and hoe, are still occupied by a splendid
timber forest quite able to sustain a comparison with our mixed
forests in Germany. But wherever man has once built his hut or tilled
his field, this horrible bush springs up. Every phase of this process
may be seen in the course of a couple of hours’ walk along the main
road. From the bush to right or left, one hears the sound of the axe—
not from one spot only, but from several directions at once. A few
steps further on, we can see what is taking place. The brush has been
cut down and piled up in heaps to the height of a yard or more,
between which the trunks of the large trees stand up like the last
pillars of a magnificent ruined building. These, too, present a
melancholy spectacle: the destructive Makonde have ringed them—
cut a broad strip of bark all round to ensure their dying off—and also
piled up pyramids of brush round them. Father and son, mother and
son-in-law, are chopping away perseveringly in the background—too
busy, almost, to look round at the white stranger, who usually excites
so much interest. If you pass by the same place a week later, the piles
of brushwood have disappeared and a thick layer of ashes has taken
the place of the green forest. The large trees stretch their
smouldering trunks and branches in dumb accusation to heaven—if
they have not already fallen and been more or less reduced to ashes,
perhaps only showing as a white stripe on the dark ground.
This work of destruction is carried out by the Makonde alike on the
virgin forest and on the bush which has sprung up on sites already
cultivated and deserted. In the second case they are saved the trouble
of burning the large trees, these being entirely absent in the
secondary bush.
After burning this piece of forest ground and loosening it with the
hoe, the native sows his corn and plants his vegetables. All over the
country, he goes in for bed-culture, which requires, and, in fact,
receives, the most careful attention. Weeds are nowhere tolerated in
the south of German East Africa. The crops may fail on the plains,
where droughts are frequent, but never on the plateau with its
abundant rains and heavy dews. Its fortunate inhabitants even have
the satisfaction of seeing the proud Wayao and Wamakua working
for them as labourers, driven by hunger to serve where they were
accustomed to rule.
But the light, sandy soil is soon exhausted, and would yield no
harvest the second year if cultivated twice running. This fact has
been familiar to the native for ages; consequently he provides in
time, and, while his crop is growing, prepares the next plot with axe
and firebrand. Next year he plants this with his various crops and
lets the first piece lie fallow. For a short time it remains waste and
desolate; then nature steps in to repair the destruction wrought by
man; a thousand new growths spring out of the exhausted soil, and
even the old stumps put forth fresh shoots. Next year the new growth
is up to one’s knees, and in a few years more it is that terrible,
impenetrable bush, which maintains its position till the black
occupier of the land has made the round of all the available sites and
come back to his starting point.
The Makonde are, body and soul, so to speak, one with this bush.
According to my Yao informants, indeed, their name means nothing
else but “bush people.” Their own tradition says that they have been
settled up here for a very long time, but to my surprise they laid great
stress on an original immigration. Their old homes were in the
south-east, near Mikindani and the mouth of the Rovuma, whence
their peaceful forefathers were driven by the continual raids of the
Sakalavas from Madagascar and the warlike Shirazis[47] of the coast,
to take refuge on the almost inaccessible plateau. I have studied
African ethnology for twenty years, but the fact that changes of
population in this apparently quiet and peaceable corner of the earth
could have been occasioned by outside enterprises taking place on
the high seas, was completely new to me. It is, no doubt, however,
correct.
The charming tribal legend of the Makonde—besides informing us
of other interesting matters—explains why they have to live in the
thickest of the bush and a long way from the edge of the plateau,
instead of making their permanent homes beside the purling brooks
and springs of the low country.
“The place where the tribe originated is Mahuta, on the southern
side of the plateau towards the Rovuma, where of old time there was
nothing but thick bush. Out of this bush came a man who never
washed himself or shaved his head, and who ate and drank but little.
He went out and made a human figure from the wood of a tree
growing in the open country, which he took home to his abode in the
bush and there set it upright. In the night this image came to life and
was a woman. The man and woman went down together to the
Rovuma to wash themselves. Here the woman gave birth to a still-
born child. They left that place and passed over the high land into the
valley of the Mbemkuru, where the woman had another child, which
was also born dead. Then they returned to the high bush country of
Mahuta, where the third child was born, which lived and grew up. In
course of time, the couple had many more children, and called
themselves Wamatanda. These were the ancestral stock of the
Makonde, also called Wamakonde,[48] i.e., aborigines. Their
forefather, the man from the bush, gave his children the command to
bury their dead upright, in memory of the mother of their race who
was cut out of wood and awoke to life when standing upright. He also
warned them against settling in the valleys and near large streams,
for sickness and death dwelt there. They were to make it a rule to
have their huts at least an hour’s walk from the nearest watering-
place; then their children would thrive and escape illness.”
The explanation of the name Makonde given by my informants is
somewhat different from that contained in the above legend, which I
extract from a little book (small, but packed with information), by
Pater Adams, entitled Lindi und sein Hinterland. Otherwise, my
results agree exactly with the statements of the legend. Washing?
Hapana—there is no such thing. Why should they do so? As it is, the
supply of water scarcely suffices for cooking and drinking; other
people do not wash, so why should the Makonde distinguish himself
by such needless eccentricity? As for shaving the head, the short,
woolly crop scarcely needs it,[49] so the second ancestral precept is
likewise easy enough to follow. Beyond this, however, there is
nothing ridiculous in the ancestor’s advice. I have obtained from
various local artists a fairly large number of figures carved in wood,
ranging from fifteen to twenty-three inches in height, and
representing women belonging to the great group of the Mavia,
Makonde, and Matambwe tribes. The carving is remarkably well
done and renders the female type with great accuracy, especially the
keloid ornamentation, to be described later on. As to the object and
meaning of their works the sculptors either could or (more probably)
would tell me nothing, and I was forced to content myself with the
scanty information vouchsafed by one man, who said that the figures
were merely intended to represent the nembo—the artificial
deformations of pelele, ear-discs, and keloids. The legend recorded
by Pater Adams places these figures in a new light. They must surely
be more than mere dolls; and we may even venture to assume that
they are—though the majority of present-day Makonde are probably
unaware of the fact—representations of the tribal ancestress.
The references in the legend to the descent from Mahuta to the
Rovuma, and to a journey across the highlands into the Mbekuru
valley, undoubtedly indicate the previous history of the tribe, the
travels of the ancestral pair typifying the migrations of their
descendants. The descent to the neighbouring Rovuma valley, with
its extraordinary fertility and great abundance of game, is intelligible
at a glance—but the crossing of the Lukuledi depression, the ascent
to the Rondo Plateau and the descent to the Mbemkuru, also lie
within the bounds of probability, for all these districts have exactly
the same character as the extreme south. Now, however, comes a
point of especial interest for our bacteriological age. The primitive
Makonde did not enjoy their lives in the marshy river-valleys.
Disease raged among them, and many died. It was only after they
had returned to their original home near Mahuta, that the health
conditions of these people improved. We are very apt to think of the
African as a stupid person whose ignorance of nature is only equalled
by his fear of it, and who looks on all mishaps as caused by evil
spirits and malignant natural powers. It is much more correct to
assume in this case that the people very early learnt to distinguish
districts infested with malaria from those where it is absent.
This knowledge is crystallized in the
ancestral warning against settling in the
valleys and near the great waters, the
dwelling-places of disease and death. At the
same time, for security against the hostile
Mavia south of the Rovuma, it was enacted
that every settlement must be not less than a
certain distance from the southern edge of the
plateau. Such in fact is their mode of life at the
present day. It is not such a bad one, and
certainly they are both safer and more
comfortable than the Makua, the recent
intruders from the south, who have made USUAL METHOD OF
good their footing on the western edge of the CLOSING HUT-DOOR
plateau, extending over a fairly wide belt of
country. Neither Makua nor Makonde show in their dwellings
anything of the size and comeliness of the Yao houses in the plain,
especially at Masasi, Chingulungulu and Zuza’s. Jumbe Chauro, a
Makonde hamlet not far from Newala, on the road to Mahuta, is the
most important settlement of the tribe I have yet seen, and has fairly
spacious huts. But how slovenly is their construction compared with
the palatial residences of the elephant-hunters living in the plain.
The roofs are still more untidy than in the general run of huts during
the dry season, the walls show here and there the scanty beginnings
or the lamentable remains of the mud plastering, and the interior is a
veritable dog-kennel; dirt, dust and disorder everywhere. A few huts
only show any attempt at division into rooms, and this consists
merely of very roughly-made bamboo partitions. In one point alone
have I noticed any indication of progress—in the method of fastening
the door. Houses all over the south are secured in a simple but
ingenious manner. The door consists of a set of stout pieces of wood
or bamboo, tied with bark-string to two cross-pieces, and moving in
two grooves round one of the door-posts, so as to open inwards. If
the owner wishes to leave home, he takes two logs as thick as a man’s
upper arm and about a yard long. One of these is placed obliquely
against the middle of the door from the inside, so as to form an angle
of from 60° to 75° with the ground. He then places the second piece
horizontally across the first, pressing it downward with all his might.
It is kept in place by two strong posts planted in the ground a few
inches inside the door. This fastening is absolutely safe, but of course
cannot be applied to both doors at once, otherwise how could the
owner leave or enter his house? I have not yet succeeded in finding
out how the back door is fastened.