[Durgical](https://durgical.com/en/) › [DurgiPedia](https://durgical.com/en/durgipedia/) › Anaesthesia and ICU # Anaesthesia and critical care Preop, the airway, regional, crises, recovery and the ICU. 93 pages ## Start here - [Assessment **The comatose patient in the ICU** A person in a coma cannot be woken and does not respond; doctors protect the airway, fix quick…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/the-comatose-patient-in-the-icu/) - [Patient and surgery **Trauma and emergency surgery** Anaesthesia for an injured or acutely ill patient who may be bleeding, has a full stomach and…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/trauma-and-emergency-surgery/) - [Concept **Anticoagulants, antiplatelets and neuraxial blocks** Blood thinners must be paused for the right time before a spinal or epidural and its catheter…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/anticoagulants-antiplatelets-and-neuraxial-blocks/) - [Concept **Positioning and its injuries** Under anaesthesia the patient cannot feel pressure or strain, so the team positions and pads the…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/positioning-and-its-injuries/) - [Technique **Rapid-sequence induction and intubation** A fast way to put a patient with a full stomach to sleep and pass a breathing tube, shortening…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/rapid-sequence-induction-and-intubation/) - [Crisis **Intraoperative hypotension** Low blood pressure during an operation; it is common, usually treatable, and sometimes the first…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/intraoperative-hypotension/) - [Concept **Chronic pain: an overview for the generalist** Chronic pain lasts more than three months; it changes the nervous system and daily life, so it…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/chronic-pain-an-overview-for-the-generalist/) - [Technique **Caudal block in children** Numbing medicine injected through a small gap at the bottom of the spine, usually after the…](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/caudal-block-in-children/) ## Areas - [**Critical care (ICU)** 27 pages The comatose patient in the ICU · Fever in the ICU: an approach · Shock: a bedside approach by type](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/critical-care/) - [**By patient and by surgery** 17 pages Trauma and emergency surgery · Diabetes and other endocrine disease · Neuromuscular disease and anaesthesia](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/by-patient/) - [**Preoperative assessment** 9 pages Anticoagulants, antiplatelets and neuraxial blocks · Premedication and aspiration prophylaxis · Cardiac risk before non-cardiac surgery](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/preop/) - [**Anaesthesia basics** 9 pages Positioning and its injuries · What anaesthesia does to the heart, lungs, brain and kidneys · Levels of sedation and procedural sedation safety](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/basics/) - [**T** **The airway** 8 pages Rapid-sequence induction and intubation · How a child's airway differs · Cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate: front-of-neck access](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/airway/) - [**I** **Intraoperative crises** 8 pages Intraoperative hypotension · Malignant hyperthermia · Massive haemorrhage in theatre](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/crises/) - [**Recovery and pain** 8 pages Chronic pain: an overview for the generalist · Postoperative delirium · Postoperative oliguria and fluids](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/recovery/) - [**Regional anaesthesia** 7 pages Caudal block in children · Complications of neuraxial blocks: headache, hypotension, haematoma, infection · Labour analgesia](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/areas/regional/) ## A to Z - [A](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/a/) - [B](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/b/) - [C](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/c/) - [D](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/d/) - [E](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/e/) - [F](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/f/) - [G](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/g/) - [H](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/h/) - [I](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/i/) - [L](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/l/) - [M](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/m/) - [N](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/n/) - [O](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/o/) - [P](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/p/) - [R](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/r/) - [S](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/s/) - [T](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/t/) - [V](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/v/) - [W](https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/a-z/w/) ## 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. --- Source: https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/ License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Cite as: DurgiPedia (durgical.com), https://durgical.com/en/anaesthesia/