Description: This refresher course lecture will highlight the anesthetic considerations for a variety of interventional cardiology procedure. The concept of the Hybrid OR is a reality in many centers now, and a basic understanding of the types of procedures being done is necessary to provide anesthetic care. This syllabus will provide the background information for the lecture, which will focus...

A 30-years-old third gravida with previous normal pregnancies and an unremarkable prenatal course had an emergency lower segment caesarean section at a periphery hospital for failure of labour to progress. She developed bilateral cortical blindness immediately after recovery from anesthesia due to cerebral angiopathy shown by CT and MR scan as cortical infarct cerebral angiopathy, which is a ra...

Objectives At the completion of this course, the reader should be able to: 1. Identify the anatomical structures and functions of the “eloquent” cerebral cortex. 2. Understand the need for careful planning and implementation of anesthetic care in a patient undergoing an awake craniotomy. 3. List and discuss the components of a regional scalp block and associated caveats. 4. Describe the potenti...

Indications for laparoscopic surgeries are increasing in the current era view of advantages they offer terms less perioperative morbidities, early mobilization, and better cosmesis. These benefits perceived even more obese women. However, there special challenges this population, associated with their body habitus, poor visibility, anesthesia risks. Difficulty port closure is one such problem e...

Neurofibromatosis is a multisystem disorder with relentless course. It poses particular challenge to the anesthesiologist due involvement of airway, spine, central and peripheral nervous system systemic neurohormonal implications that can all lead an adverse intraoperative Hence understanding detailed evaluation local NF-1 essential. Pregnancy has additional in patient NF-1, increase size neuro...

279 Page 1 Figure 1. A surfing analogy as a graphical explanation of how anesthesiologists use a combination of three approaches to administer anesthetics to maintain the anesthetic effect while making rapid recovery possible. Anesthesiologists target the upper portion of the " steep " part of the concentration-effect relationship so that small decreases in concentration translate into large de...