Skin and Bone Disorders
Key Points ▪ Achondroplasia frequently makes airway management difficult for patients, and unstable cervical spine anatomy presents the risk of neurologic injury. Postoperative respiratory insufficiency may be a challenge. ▪…
ANESTHESIA
Muscle Diseases
Key points ▪ Patients with muscular diseases have a postoperative pulmonary complication rate of 25% to 48%. Their inability to take deep inspirations and cough predisposes them to atelectasis and…
Neurologic Diseases
Key points ▪ Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (HMSNs) are disorders of myelination of the peripheral nervous system resulting in progressive loss of motor and sensory function. ▪ In familial…
Renal Diseases
Key points ▪ The presence of chronic or acute kidney disease has significant negative effects on surgical outcomes. Knowledge of key pathophysiologic aspects of glomerular and tubular disorders is a…
Respiratory Diseases
Key points ▪ Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas have congenital and hereditary etiology, and patients are at risk for life-threatening rupture requiring surgery. ▪ Wegener’s granulomatosis can affect any organ system, although…
Obesity and Nutrition Disorders
Key points ▪ Obesity is a common disease. The number of overweight, obese, and morbidly obese persons has increased alarmingly in the last three decades. ▪ Body mass index (BMI)…
Cardiac Diseases
Key points ▪ Even the most uncommon cardiac diseases are characterized by common and classifiable patterns of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. ▪ Knowledge of disease effects on determinants of cardiac…
Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases
Key points ▪ During ophthalmic surgery, the anesthesiologist is often positioned away from the patient’s face, preventing immediate access to the airway, and during many laryngologic surgeries, must share the…
Electrical and Fire Safety
Chapter Outline PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICITY Direct and Alternating Currents Impedance Capacitance Inductance ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARDS Alternating and Direct Currents Source of Shocks Grounding ELECTRICAL POWER: GROUNDED ELECTRICAL POWER: UNGROUNDED LINE…
Machine Checkout and Quality Assurance
Chapter Outline OVERVIEW BACKGROUND PREANESTHESIA CHECKOUT Historical Perspective 2008 Recommendations for Preanesthesia Checkout Procedures Minimum PAC Checklist Automated Anesthesia Machine Checkout Procedures Machine-Embedded Preanesthesia Checklists Using Technicians to Perform Aspects…
