Benjamin A Kohl,Stanley Schwartz
Benjamin A Kohl
Patients with endocrinopathies frequently present to the operating room. Although many of these disorders are managed on a chronic basis, patients may have acute changes in the perioperative period that, if left unrecognized, can have a neg...
Gary E Hill,Babatunde Ogunnaike,Dawood Nasir
Gary E Hill
Organ toxicity caused by poisons or drug therapy is diverse and may not be commonly encountered clinically. In general, commonly encountered conditions caused by drug/toxin pharmacology can be classified into 7 categories by shared mechanis...
Anesthetic concerns in trauma victims requiring operative intervention: the patient too sick to anesthetize [0.03%]
创伤需要手术的患者的麻醉问题：病情太重无法麻醉患者
Maureen McCunn,Emily K B Gordon,Thomas H Scott
Maureen McCunn
Trauma is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Timely acute care anesthetic management of patients following traumatic injury may improve outcome. Recognition of highly-mortal injuries to the brain, heart, lungs, liver, and pelvis s...
Christopher J O&#x;Connor,Kenneth J Tuman
Christopher J O&#x;Connor
The anesthetic management of patients with pericardial tamponade is challenging, as they present with not only the cardiovascular compromise that defines pericardial tamponade, but often have comorbid conditions that increase the complexity...
Anesthetic considerations for patients with advanced valvular heart disease undergoing noncardiac surgery [0.03%]
非心脏手术患者术前评估发现严重瓣膜性心脏病的麻醉处理要点
Jonathan Frogel,Dragos Galusca
Jonathan Frogel
Patients with valvular heart disease represent a growing segment of the population and can present major challenges to clinical anesthesiologists. This review focuses on patients with advanced left-sided valvular disease undergoing noncardi...
Robert B Schonberger,Ala S Haddadin
Robert B Schonberger
This article reviews the current state of knowledge of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of acute coronary syndrome outside and during the perioperative period. It highlights some aspects of relevance for the anesthesiologist ca...
Gebhard Wagener,Tricia E Brentjens
Gebhard Wagener
Anesthesiologists often care for patients with renal insufficiency or renal failure. These patients may present to the operating room for a minor procedure such as an inguinal hernia repair or an arteriovenous fistula/graft. Alternatively, ...
James M Blum,Ross Blank,Lauryn R Rochlen
James M Blum
The critically ill patient who requires anesthesia is frequently a concern for the anesthesiologist. In addition to having potential hemodynamic lability and coagulopathy, the critically ill patient frequently experiences profound respirato...
Jennifer E Hofer,Mark E Nunnally
Jennifer E Hofer
The acutely septic patient is a multifaceted challenge for the anesthetist. Unlike most elective surgery patients, acutely septic patients have severe systemic disease before the physiologic insults of anesthesia and surgery. The decision t...
Anesthetic concerns in patients with known cerebrovascular insufficiency [0.03%]
既往有脑血管供血不足病史患者的麻醉注意事项
Anna V Logvinova,Lawrence Litt,William L Young et al.
Anna V Logvinova et al.
This review outlines the perioperative anesthesia considerations of patients with vascular diseases of the central nervous system, including occlusive cerebrovascular diseases with ischemic risks and various cerebrovascular malformations wi...