Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures

Incredibly useful for anesthesia residents, especially in your first year. This book provides some basic information about the procedures, surgical considerations (positioning, EBL, abx, M&M, etc), and anesthetic considerations (pre-op, intra-op, and post-op). Obviously, you will have to learn about your surgeon-specific preferences/considerations, but this is an excellent source to obtain general background. As a CA-1, I use this all the time. I'll update this when I'm further on in my training to comment on how useful it continues to be.

A "cookbook" approach to administering an anesthetic. I frequently refer to it--I have the Kindle version on my iPad--when I am called to administer an anesthetic for a procedure I've not seen before or haven't done in a while. I used an earlier version during my fellowship, and would often answer the surgeons' questions for the surgical residents before they could. This is not a standalone guide to anesthesiology, but a useful adjunct. I recommend it to all the medical students I encounter who are planning to serve a residency in anesthesiology.

I think it's a little expensive but it's worth it. It has a completely different approach from other books and lets you focus in particular procedures in a very fast and concise way

Some love this book and some hate it, but from a nurse anesthetist prospective I find it useful. Despite working in the surgical/trauma ICU, I didn't have an in-depth knowledge of what was involved in each procedure and this book helped. Each procedure, or groups of smaller ones, had the information I needed about the surgery, positioning, and a complete anesthetic plan so that I didn't search through three or four other books trying to find that data. It's not perfect, and the anesthetic management may not be what's commonly done in your area, but it helped me formulate a rough plan so that I could extract specific information from other books or literature to fine tune my plan. In my opinion it's worth the money.

Very informative and easy to read

Clear, concise, basically every clinical scenario you'll ever encounter. THE BEST BOOK for anesthesia, has never steered me wrong.

Very thorough. An essential part of every anesthesia provider's library.

Awesome. Has a great smartphone app for viewing to help with pre-ops with lugging around the hardback. However I like keeping the hardback at home in office.