Anesthesia for special populations and day-care surgery
Anesthesiology · MBBS
Study notes
Elderly for hip — low-dose spinal; avoids delirium. Special populations: pediatric (weight — mg/kg; separation — parents; airway — small; avoid — preoperative starvation — limited), geriatric (reduced doses — sensitivity; delirium — avoid anticholinergics; hypothermia), obstetric (spinal — C-section — left tilt — aortocaval; general — RSI — aspiration; drugs — avoid teratogens), obese (difficult airway — ramping; dosing — lean; OSA — monitor), cardiac (invasive — arterial; avoid — hypotension/tachycardia), day-care (short — propofol, desflurane, remifentanil; discharge — Aldrete — escort). Tailor the anesthetic — one size harms.
Related topics
- Preoperative assessment and perioperative care
- General anesthesia: stages, inhalational and IV agents
- Regional anesthesia: spinal, epidural, nerve blocks
- Local anesthetics: pharmacology and toxicity
- Airway management: intubation, LMA, difficult airway
- Monitoring: pulse oximetry, capnography, hemodynamic monitoring