BookJonathan L. Benumof, editor.
Contents:
Respiration-related cases
Cannot ventilate, cannot intubate due to airway hemorrhage
Pulmonary edema following attempted nasal intubation for mandibular fracture repair
Loss of critical airway
Anterior mediastinal mass
Awake intubation with a NIM tube: how is it done?
Hemodynamic collapse following a mainstem intubation
Hypoxemia during tracheostomy
Anesthetic depth and mask ventilation in the prone position
Jet ventilation through a cookgas airway exchange catheter
End of case evaluation and management of a patient post airway mass excision
Possible recurrent laryngeal nerve injury
Obstructive sleep apnea, and dead in bed
Bilevel positive air pressure, decreased sensorium, aspiration and capnography
Perioperative management of a patient previously treated with bleomycin undergoing thoracic surgery
Intra-operative airway fire
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Circulation-related cases
Hemorrhage during endovascular repair of thoracic aorta
Pacemakers and automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Acute myocardial infarction during laparoscopic surgery
Sickle cell and preeclampsia
Dysrhythmias in a patient with Crohn's disease
Hematologic disorders: hemophilia and disseminated intravascular coagulation
Blood transfusion and the Jehovah's Witness patient
Cardiac and pulmonary contusions
Intraoperative coagulopathy
Hypotension in chronic methamphetamine user
Venous air embolism during arteriovenous malformation repair
Cardiac tamponade
Case of intraoperative new-onset atrial fibrillation
Valvular disease
Obstetrics-related cases
Labor epidural with unrecognized dural puncture, causing high sensory block, hypotension, fetal bradycardia and post dural puncture headache
Acute pulmonary dysfunction immediately after cesarean delivery under general anesthesia
Jehovah's Witness with placenta previa and increta for cesarean hysterectomy
A pregnant patient with mitral stenosis
Unrecognized uterine hyperstimulation due to oxytocin and combined spinal-epidural analgesia
Super morbidly obese patient for elective repeat cesarean section
Probable amniotic fluid embolus
Emergent cesarean section
Pregnancy plus atrial septal defect vs Eisenmenger Syndrome
Uterine abruption
Pediatric-related cases
Neonatal resuscitation following spontaneous vaginal delivery
Anxious, coughing and bound to obstruct
Special diseases/conditions/situations
Hypothermia during laparoscopic nephrectomy
Operating room management case scenarios
Anaphylaxis reactions
Autonomic dysreflexia
Porphyrias
Monitored anesthesia care: medical implications; and wrong-sided operations: legal implications
Diabetic ketoacidosis in the urgent anesthesia setting
Fever, altered mental status, and rigidity in the perioperative course
Neuro/neuromuscular-related cases
Emergent craniotomy for evacuation of epidural hematoma
Hyperkalemia and residual neuromuscular blockade after kidney transplantation
A defasciculating dose of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocker
Postoperative monocular vision loss
Delayed emergence after aneurysm clipping
Pain and regional anesthesia related cases
Unintentional dural puncture in a patient with severe preeclampsia
Complex regional pain syndrome
Vascular absorption of local anesthetic producing systemic toxicity
Inadvertent high spinal in parturient
Outpatient surgery-related cases
Plastic surgery in a surgeon's office
Orthopedic surgery in an ambulatory surgicenter
Eye surgery at an outpatient surgicenter
Endoscopic sinus surgery at an outpatient sugicenter.