Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care
Key Points ▪ Congenital heart disease causes significant alterations in oxygenation, perfusion, and myocardial function after birth, and it can be categorized into hypoxic and normoxic lesions. ▪ The overall…
ANESTHESIA
Cognitive Dysfunction and Other Long-Term Complications of Surgery and Anesthesia
Key Points ▪ Postoperative cognitive concerns have been voiced by older patients, their families, and caregivers for over a century, and more recently documented with objective testing. ▪ The term…
Anesthesia for Otolaryngologic and Head-Neck Surgery
Key Points ▪ Difficult airways are more frequently encountered in patients undergoing ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgery, especially for cancer. Reviewing the results of a preoperative computed tomography (CT)…
Occupational Safety, Infection Control, and Substance Abuse
Key Points ▪ Exposure to waste anesthetic gas in clinical practice is unavoidable. In the United States, the limits of exposure to waste gases are set by the National Institute…
The Postanesthesia Care Unit
Key Points ▪ Emergence from general anesthesia and surgery may be accompanied by a number of physiologic disturbances that affect multiple organ systems. Most common are postoperative nausea and vomiting…
Critical Care Anesthesiology
Key Points ▪ Anesthesiologists have been key contributors to the field of critical care, both in the advancement of clinical practice and development of technology relevant to the field. ▪…
Acute Postoperative Pain
Short Abstract: Although the name, acute postoperative pain, implies strictly the care provided after a surgical procedure and in practice often interpreted as the time in which the patient remains…
Anesthesia for Neurologic Surgery and Neurointerventions
Key Points ▪ For the purposes of planning a strategy for controlling intracranial pressure (ICP), the four subcompartments of the intracranial space should be considered: cells, interstitial and intracellular fluid,…
Clinical Care in Extreme Environments: Physiology at High Altitude and in Space
Key Points ▪ High altitude or space environments present a number of extreme physiologic challenges that must be overcome in order to survive. ▪ Given sufficient time, humans can adapt…
Anesthesia for Trauma
Key Points ▪ Perioperative anesthesia care for patients who have undergone acute trauma depends on an understanding of trauma system design and surgical priorities. ▪ Successful emergency airway management is…
