Anaesthesia and critical care
Preop, the airway, regional, crises, recovery and the ICU.
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- AssessmentThe comatose patient in the ICUA person in a coma cannot be woken and does not respond; doctors protect the airway, fix quick…
- Patient and surgeryTrauma and emergency surgeryAnaesthesia for an injured or acutely ill patient who may be bleeding, has a full stomach and…
- ConceptAnticoagulants, antiplatelets and neuraxial blocksBlood thinners must be paused for the right time before a spinal or epidural and its catheter…
- ConceptPositioning and its injuriesUnder anaesthesia the patient cannot feel pressure or strain, so the team positions and pads the…
- TechniqueRapid-sequence induction and intubationA fast way to put a patient with a full stomach to sleep and pass a breathing tube, shortening…
- CrisisIntraoperative hypotensionLow blood pressure during an operation; it is common, usually treatable, and sometimes the first…
- ConceptChronic pain: an overview for the generalistChronic pain lasts more than three months; it changes the nervous system and daily life, so it…
- TechniqueCaudal block in childrenNumbing medicine injected through a small gap at the bottom of the spine, usually after the…
Areas
- Critical care (ICU)27 pagesThe comatose patient in the ICU · Fever in the ICU: an approach · Shock: a bedside approach by type
- By patient and by surgery17 pagesTrauma and emergency surgery · Diabetes and other endocrine disease · Neuromuscular disease and anaesthesia
- Preoperative assessment9 pagesAnticoagulants, antiplatelets and neuraxial blocks · Premedication and aspiration prophylaxis · Cardiac risk before non-cardiac surgery
- Anaesthesia basics9 pagesPositioning and its injuries · What anaesthesia does to the heart, lungs, brain and kidneys · Levels of sedation and procedural sedation safety
- TThe airway8 pagesRapid-sequence induction and intubation · How a child's airway differs · Cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate: front-of-neck access
- IIntraoperative crises8 pagesIntraoperative hypotension · Malignant hyperthermia · Massive haemorrhage in theatre
- Recovery and pain8 pagesChronic pain: an overview for the generalist · Postoperative delirium · Postoperative oliguria and fluids
- Regional anaesthesia7 pagesCaudal block in children · Complications of neuraxial blocks: headache, hypotension, haematoma, infection · Labour analgesia
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About this section
The patient before, during and after surgery, and in the intensive care unit: the pre-anaesthetic assessment, types of anaesthesia and monitoring, the airway, regional anaesthesia, operating-room crises, recovery and pain, what changes with each patient and operation, and critical care (shock, mechanical ventilation, sedation and organ support). Drugs are explained by mechanism, without doses.
Educational content; it does not replace supervised training, your institution's protocols or the anaesthetist's or intensivist's decision. It contains no doses and no ventilator or infusion settings.
Representative model, for educational purposes only.