Of special note in this section is a chapter covering the anesthesia and surgery for pediatric spine an extremely well referenced compendium of current practice on this topic the final chapters span electrophysiologic monitoring of spinal cord intensive care management and treatment and diagnosis of pain syndromes after spinal cord injury . Anesthesia for spine surgery edited by ehab farag attempts to fill this niche of anesthesiology this comprehensive textbook is logically divided into four sections general considerations spine surgery for adult patients postoperative care of the adult patient and spine surgery for pediatric patients. Pregabalin has the more consistent bioavailability published doses of pregabalin vary from 150 to 600 mg before surgery followed by 50 300 mg for up to 14 days 4 ophthalmic complications postoperative visual loss povl occurs in 1 60 000 1 125 000 operations 5 spinal surgery has the highest incidence of povl from analysis of the american society of anesthesiologists asa post operative visual loss registry spinal surgery accounted for 93 131 70 of all cases of visual loss . Anesthesia for surgery of the spine susan s porter ed new york mcgraw hill 1995 isbn 0 07 050622 1 390 pp 6500 in her preface dr porter notes that a goal of this book was to provide anesthesia practitioners a valuable hands on reference for managing perioperative care of patients undergoing spinal surgery