Clinical anesthesia : near misses and lessons learned /: near misses and lessons learned. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John G. Brock-Utne.
• Authors: Brock-Utne, J. G
• Contents: No Fiberoptic Intubation System: A Potential Problem -- Is the Patient Extubated? -- A Strange Computerized Electrocardiogram Interpretation -- Fractured Neck of Femur in an Elderly Patient -- Spinal Anesthetic That Wears Off Before Surgery Ends -- Just a Simple Monitored Anesthesia Care Case -- Smell of Burning in the Operating Room -- Inguinal Hernia Repair in a Diabetic Patient -- The Case of the "Hidden" IV -- Postoperative Painful Eye -- Awake Craniotomy with Language Mapping -- Gum Elastic Bougie: Tips for Its Use -- External Vaporizer Leak During Anesthesia -- Manual Ventilation by a Single Operator: With Patient Turned 180 Degrees Away from the Anesthesia Machine -- Life-Threatening Arrhythmia in an Infant -- Tongue Ring: Anesthetic Risks and Potential Complications -- Hasty C-Arm Positioning: A Recipe for Disaster -- Inability to Remove a Nasogastric Tube -- An Unusual Cause of Difficult Tracheal Intubation -- Pulmonary Edema After Abdominal Laparoscopy -- Difficult Laryngeal Mask Airway Placement: A Possible Solution -- Postoperative Airway Complication After Sinus Surgery -- An Unusual Capnograph Tracing -- A Respiratory Dilemma During a Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Procedure -- A Tracheostomy Is Urgently Needed, but You Have Never Done One -- General Anesthesia for a Patient with a Difficult Airway and a Full Stomach -- Jehovah's Witness and a Potentially Bloody Operation -- Intraoperative Insufflation of the Stomach -- Sudden Intraoperative Hypotension -- Overestimation of Blood Pressure from an Arterial Pressure Line -- Severe Decrease in Lung Compliance During a Code Blue -- Shortening Postanesthesia Recovery Time After an Epidural: Is It Possible? -- Difficult Airway in an Underequipped Setting -- Delayed Cutaneous Fluid Leak After Removal of an Epidural Catheter -- Traumatic Hemothorax and Same-Side Central Venous Access -- Single Abdominal Knife Wound? Easy Case? -- A Draw-Over Vaporizer with a Nonrebreathing Circuit -- Unexpected Intraoperative "Oozing" -- Central Venous Access and the Obese Patient -- Taking Over for a Colleague: Always a Potential Concern -- Intraoperative Epidural Catheter Malfunction -- Breathing Difficulties After an Electroconvulsive Therapy -- White "Clumps" in the Blood Sample from an Arterial Line: Are You Concerned? -- Anesthesia for a Surgeon Who Has Previously Lost His Privileges -- Airway Obstruction in a Prone Patient -- A Question You Should Always Ask -- Postoperative Vocal Cord Paralysis -- A Serious Problem -- A Leaking Endotracheal Tube in a Prone Patient -- Lessons from the Field: Unusual Problems Require Unusual Solutions in Impossible Situations -- An "Old Trick" but a Potential Problem -- A Loud "Pop" Intraoperatively and Now You Cannot Ventilate -- Postoperative Median Nerve Injury -- A Patient in a Halo: Watch Out -- Now or Never: Developing Professional Judgment -- General Anesthesia in a Patient with Chronic Amphetamine Use -- What Is Wrong with This Picture? -- The One-Eyed Patient -- A Near Tragedy -- Robot-Assisted Surgery: A Word of Caution -- An Airway Emergency in an Out of Hospital Surgical Office -- Bonus Question: Is the Patient Paralyzed?
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages)
• Subjects: 617.9/6041; Medicine; Anesthesia -- Complications; Anesthesiology -- Complications; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General; Anesthesia -- Complications; Anesthesia -- adverse effects; Medical -- Critical Care; Intensive care medicine; Anesthesiology; Critical care medicine; Medical -- Anesthesiology; Anaesthetics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319714677; 3319714678
• Related ISBNs: 9783319714660; 331971466X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 7, 2018).
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