Anesthesia in High-Risk Patients

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fellahi, Jean-Luc (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Leone, Marc (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Surgery.; Practice of medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; General Surgery.; Practice and Hospital Management.

This book describes the approach to anesthetic and perioperative management in different categories of high-risk patient scheduled to undergo elective noncardiac surgery. Individual sections focus on patients with conditions entailing cardiac and hemodynamic risks, respiratory risks, renal and metab...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Cardiac and hemodynamic risks
• The patient with acute coronary syndrome
• The patient with advanced chronic heart failure
• The patient with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension
• The patient with severe aortic stenosis
• The patient with congenital cardiac disease
• The patient with an automatic implanted device
• The patient with intra-abdominal hyperpression
• Part 2. Respiratory risks
• The patient with SOAS
• The patient with end-stage pulmonary disease
• Part 3. Renal and metabolic risks
• The patient with end-stage renal disease
• The patient with end-stage liver disease
• The severe obese patient
• Patients with rare metabolic diseases
• Part 4. Neurological risks
• Patients with cerebral diseases
• Patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases
• Part 5. Other risks
• The patient with severe sepsis
• The patient with hemorrhagic risk
• The transplanted patient
• Aged patients with a frailty syndrome
• The allergic patient
• The addicted patient
• The Jehovah witness patient
• The pregnant women.