Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction Mohammed M. Minhaj John E. Ellis CASE SUMMARY A 56-year-old, 90-kg man presents for femoral-popliteal bypass surgery. He has a history of hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia,…
Epidemiology and Predictors Joshua D. Stearns Lee A. Fleisher CASE SUMMARY A 72-year-old woman with a past medical history significant for hypertension and a 55-pack-year history of tobacco use is…
The Difficult Airway Carin A. Hagberg Rainer Georgi Claude Krier CASE SUMMARY A 38-year-old, 96 kg woman presents to the emergency room complaining of a severe sore throat, especially when…
Respiratory Complications Overview Robert R. Kirby CASE SUMMARY A 14-year-old boy was admitted to an ambulatory surgical center for elective tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. He had undergone general anesthesia for uneventful…
Medicine and Law: When Two Worlds Collide Virginia M. Buchanan Russ W. Jones Dion Ramos And for the greater security of the weak commons, he gave general liberty of indicting…
Quality Assurance and Risk Management Jerry A. Cohen Robert S. Lagasse John H. Eichhorn CASE SUMMARY Rarely do virtually all errors possible in quality and risk management (RM) present in…
Evaluation of Anesthetic Risk Vijaya Gottumukkala Dam-Thuy Truong Angela T. Truong CASE SUMMARY A 50-year-old, morbidly obese, male patient with renal insufficiency, a history of transient blindness in the right…
Anesthesia, Perioperative Mortality, and Predictors of Adverse Outcomes John H. Eichhorn Zaki-Udin Hassan CASE SUMMARY A 39-year-old, 5 ft 5 in., 380-lb woman (body mass index = 63) presented to…
Acute Pain Management Stephen M. Macres Peter G. Moore Scott M. Fishman Key Points The inadequate relief of postoperative pain has adverse physiologic effects that can contribute to significant morbidity…
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Dan Drzymalski Margaret Gargarian P. Grace Harrell I. COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM) Complementary and alternative therapies encompass a broad range of therapeutic modalities that can…
