Perioperative Considerations for Anesthesia

Abstract

September 2006

Section 1 Basic Surgical and Perioperative Considerations

3 Perioperative Considerations for Anesthesia

Steven B. Backman, M.D.C.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Richard M. Bondy, M.D.C.M.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Alain  Deschamps, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Anne  Moore, M.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Thomas  Schricker, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, McGill University Faculty of Medicine

This chapter offers a current perspective on perioperative considerations for anesthesia, focusing on the adult patient. The issues addressed include perioperative patient management, inpatient versus outpatient surgery, elective versus emergency surgery, choice of anesthesia, patient monitoring, general anesthesia techniques, regional anesthesia techniques, recovery, and special situations (difficult airway, morbid obesity, malignant hyperthermia, massive transfusion, hypothermia, intraoperative awareness, anaphylaxis, and perioperative dysrhythmias). This chapter contains 74 references.

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