Clinical Anesthesia

Table of Contents 1 Case 1: No Fibro-Optic Intubation System - A Potential Problem 2 Case 2: Is the Patient Extubated? 3 Case 3: A Strange Computerized ECG Interpretation 4 Case 4: An Elderly Lady with a Fractured Neck of Femur 5 Case 5: A Spinal Anesthetic That Wears Off Before Surgery Ends. What to Do? 6 Case 6: Just a Simple Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC) Case 7 Case 7: Smell of Burning in the Operating Room 8 Case 8: A Diabetic Patient for Inguinal Hernia Repair 9 Case 9: The Case of the "Hidden" IV 10 Case 10: Postoperative Painful Eye 11 Case 11: Awake Craniotomy 12 Case 12: Gum Elastic Bougie 13 Case 13: You Smell Anesthesia Vapor. Where Is It Coming From? 14 Case 14: Manual Ventilation of a Patient Turned 180 Degrees Away From the Anesthesia Machine by a Single Operator. Is It Possible? 15 Case 15: Life Threatening Arrhythmia in a 5 Month Old 16 Case 16: Tongue Ring 17 Case 17: Hasty C-Arm Positioning. A Recipe for Disaster. 18 Case 18: Inability to Remove a Nasogastric Tube 19 Case 19: An Unusual Cause of Difficult Tracheal Intubation 20 Case 20: Pulmonary Edema Following Abdominal Laparoscopy 21 Case 21: A Possible Solution to a Difficult Laryngeal Mask Airway Placement 22 Case 22: Postoperative Airway Complication Following Sinus Surgery 23 Case 23: An Unusual Capnograph Tracing 24 Case 24: A Respiratory Dilemma during a Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto-Systemic Shunt Procedure (TIPSS) 25 Case 25: A Tracheotomy is Urgently Needed and You Have Never Done One 26 Case 26: General Anesthesia for a Patient with a Difficult Airway and Full Stomach 27 Case 27: A Jehovah's Witness Patient and a Potentially Bloody Operation 28 Case 28: Laparoscopic Achalasia Surgery 29 Case 29: Sudden Intraoperative Hypotension 30 Case 30: Blood Pressure Difference between a Non-Invasive and an Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement 31 Case 31: Severe Decrease in Lung Compliance during a Code Blue 32 Case 32: Shortening Post-Anesthesia Recovery Time after an Epidural. Is It Possible? 33 Case 33: At Times You Need To Be a MacGyver 34 Case 34: Delayed Cutaneous Fluid Leak from a Puncture Hole after Removal of an Epidural Catheter 35 Case 35: Traumatic Hemothorax and Same Side Central Venous Access 36 Case 36: A Single Abdominal Knife Wound. Easy Case? 37 Case 37: A Draw-Over Vaporizer with a Non-Rebreathing Circuit 38 Case 38: Unexpected Intraoperative "Oozing" 39 Case 39: Central Venous Access and the Obese Patient 40 Case 40: Check Your Facts 41 Case 41: Intraoperative Epidural Catheter Malfunction 42 Case 42: Breathing Difficulties after an ECT 43 Case 43: White "Clumps" in the Blood Sample from an Arterial Line 44 Case 44: Anesthesia for a Surgeon Who Has Previously Lost His Privileges 45 Case 45: Airway Obstruction in an Anesthetized Prone Patient 46 Case 46: A Question You Should Always Ask 47 Case 47: Postoperative Vocal Cord Paralysis 48 Case 48: This Is a Serious Problem 49 Case 49: A Leaking Endotracheal Tube in a Prone Patient 50 Case 50: An Impossible Situation? 51 Case 51: An "Old Trick" But a Potential Serious Problem 52 Case 52: A Loud "Pop" Intra-Operatively and Now You Can't Ventilate 53 Case 53: Postoperative Median Nerve Injury 54 Case 54: A Patient in a Halo 55 Case 55: It Is Now or Never 56 Case 56: General Anesthesia in a Patient with Daily Use of Prescribed Amphetamine 57 Case 57: What Is Wrong With This Picture? 58 Case 58: The One-Eyed Patient 59 Case 59: A Near Tragedy 60 Case 60: Robot Assisted Surgery. A Word of Caution. 61 Case 61: An Airway Emergency in an Out of Hospital Surgical Office 62 Case 62: A Case of Recent Hip Replacement Coming For a Cystoscopy 63 Case 63: A High Glucose Concentration in an Epidural Catheter Aspirate. Should One Be Concerned? 64 Case 64: A General Anesthesia in a Patient Who Has Had a Recent Eye Operation 65 Case 65: Another Awake Craniotomy 66 Case 66: Spinal Fracture and Flail-Segment Rib Fractures Following a Motor Vehicle Accident 67 Case 67: Angioedema in the Emergency Department 68 Case 68: Cranioplasty. Should You Be Concerned? 69 Case 69: More Haste Less Speed 70 Case 70: A Pregnant Patient for a Carpal Tunnel Operation 71 Case 71: A Request to Provide Isoflurane Anesthesia for Treatment of Status Epilepticus 72 Case 72: No Methylene Blue in the Urine. What Would You Do? 73 Case 73: A Right Upper-Lobe Tumor and Concurrent Tracheal Polyp. What Lung Isolation Technique Would You Use? 74 Case 74: Complete Heart Block during Central Line Placement 75 Case 75: Cervical Hematoma Following Neck Surgery 76 Case 76: Transient Language Disturbance Following General Anesthesia 77 Case 77: A Flexible Suction Catheter Complication 78 Case 78: A Neurosurgical Case with a Sudden Disappearance of the Arterial Line Waveform 79 Case 79: Not Another Corneal Abrasion 80 Case 80: A Maxillofacial Operation 81 Case 81: A Patient with a Transplanted Heart for Cholecystectomy 82 Case 82: A High Total Spinal in an Obstetric Patient 83 Case 83: Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) 84 Case 84: A Neonatal Emergency 85 Case 85: This Could Be Serious 86 Case 86: A Case of Acoustic Neuroma 87 Case 87: Is the IV Infiltrated? 88 Case 88: Communication is Essential 89 Case 89: Watch Out 90 Case 90: A Simple Case but it Goes On and On 91 Case 91: Endotracheal Intubation in the ICU. Watch Out. 92 Case 92: A Straight Forward Case, or Is It? 93 Case 93: Postoperative Red Urine 94 Case 94: Patient's Toes Suddenly Become White during a Lower Limb Operation 95 Case 95: A Percutaneous Tracheostomy 96 Case 96: A Patient in the Prone Position. Watch Out. 97 Case 97: A Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea 98 Case 98: A Case of Wegener Granulomatosis 99 Case 99: What Can Possibly Go Wrong? 100 Case 100: Severe Case of Hyperkalemia during Rapid Blood Transfusion 101 Case 101: A Monitor is Just a Machine 102 Case 102: A Case of Preoperative Sinus Tachycardia 103 Case 103: Bonus Question... Mehr