General Anaesthesia and Emergency Surgery in Heart Transplant Recipient

The number of patients who undergo heart transplant is increasing. Due to surgical emergencies, many of those may require general anesthesia in hospitals where subspecialized anesthetists may not be available. We present a case of a male patient who had heart transplant and required general anesthes...

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Autores principales: Ejtehadi, Farshid, Carter, Sharon, Evans, Lucy, Zia, Mubashar, Bradpiece, Howard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/256465
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author Ejtehadi, Farshid
Carter, Sharon
Evans, Lucy
Zia, Mubashar
Bradpiece, Howard
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description The number of patients who undergo heart transplant is increasing. Due to surgical emergencies, many of those may require general anesthesia in hospitals where subspecialized anesthetists may not be available. We present a case of a male patient who had heart transplant and required general anesthesia for emergency appendicectomy. Physiology of the heart after transplant, preoperative considerations, and postoperative monitoring has been discussed in our report.
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spelling pubmed-46956542016-01-19 General Anaesthesia and Emergency Surgery in Heart Transplant Recipient Ejtehadi, Farshid Carter, Sharon Evans, Lucy Zia, Mubashar Bradpiece, Howard Case Rep Surg Case Report The number of patients who undergo heart transplant is increasing. Due to surgical emergencies, many of those may require general anesthesia in hospitals where subspecialized anesthetists may not be available. We present a case of a male patient who had heart transplant and required general anesthesia for emergency appendicectomy. Physiology of the heart after transplant, preoperative considerations, and postoperative monitoring has been discussed in our report. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4695654/ /pubmed/26788397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/256465 Text en Copyright © 2015 Farshid Ejtehadi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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