RT Book, Section
A1 Gadsden, Jeffrey
A1 Hadzic, Admir
A2 Hadzic, Admir
SR Print(0)
ID 3506646
T1 Chapter 58. Regional Anesthesia & Systemic Disease
T2 NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
YR 2007
FD 2007
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071449069
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3506646
RD 2021/05/18
AB Patients  with  coexisting  severe  systemic  disease  may  be  at  a  higher  risk  for  perioperative  complications  related  to  surgery  and  administration  of  anesthesia.  Regional  anesthesia  is  often  touted  as  beneficial  in  many  patients  who  have  pulmonary,  cardiac,  renal,  and  other  disease.  However,  the  physiologic  changes  that  occur  with  various  regional  anesthesia  techniques  must  be  understood  and  viewed  within  the  context  of  an  individual  patient's  pathophysiology  so  that  the  technique  benefits  the  patient  fully  and  reduces  the  risk  of  complications  from  the  patient'  disease.  This  chapter  focuses  on  the  pathophysiology  of  several  common  systemic  diseases  frequently  encountered  by  the  regional  anesthesiologist  and  discusses  the  interplay  between  common  regional  anesthesia  techniques  and  patient  disease.