Linking existing knowledge to new knowledge by presenting it in the form of a case or a problem is a popular and effective educational approach resulting in better retention of the knowledge and improved ability to apply that knowledge to solve real problems. This problem-based learning (PBL) method was introduced into medical education at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, in 1969. Since then it has been widely incorporated into secondary, undergraduate, and graduate education in a variety of disciplines worldwide.
This new volume for the Anesthesiology Problem-Based Learning series reviews topics in general anesthesiology utilizing the PBL approach. Each chapter deals with conditions and problems in anesthesia practice presented as a case stem with questions to encourage critical thinking, followed by an evidence-based discussion and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment.
Current in its knowledge of organ systems and management, the text keeps pace with new technology, new drugs, and new surgical techniques coupled with current guidelines for anesthetic management.
Cases highlight the practical issues that arise in the operating room and offers solutions for them.
The book can be used to review an upcoming clinical case or as a PBL tool. The 'Stem Case' and 'Key Questions and Discussion' sections can serve as the basis for interactive learning experiences for study groups or as a broad yet in-depth clinical review of the specialty for the individual learner.
Self-assessment questions can be used as a measure of knowledge acquisition or simply as a question bank to prepare for examinations.
Preface List of Contributors Airway Chapter 01: Management of the difficult airway in the MRI suite Chapter 02: Hip Dislocation in a Patient with Scleroderma Cardiac for the Generalist Chapter 03: Atrial Fibrillation Chapter 04: The LVAD Patient Presenting for Non-Cardiac Surgery Chapter 05: Preoperative Chest Pain in a Patient with Colon Obstruction Chapter 06: Perioperative anesthetic management of anterior mediastinal mass Chapter 07: Gastric Ulcer Bleed - H/o Coronary artery disease, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia Chapter 8: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) with Concomitant Atrial Fibrillation Vascular Chapter 9: Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm- Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Revisited Chapter 10: LOWER EXTREMITY CLAUDICATION Chapter 11: TEVAR - Thoracic Endovascular Surgery - Cerebral Spinal Fluid drainage catheters Abdominal Chapter 12: Active Pheochromacytoma GI Chapter 13: Pulmonary Co-morbidities in ERCP Procedure and Ambulatory Anesthesia Plastics Chapter 14: Anesthesia for Mastectomy with Autologous Flap Orthopedics Chapter 15: Anesthetic management for patients with severe cervical myelopathy Chapter 16: A Patient with morbid obesity and OSA coming for shoulder arthroscopy Genitourinary Chapter 17: Robotic Prostatectomy Chapter 18: End stage renal disease- Patient for kidney transplant Blood Products Chapter 19: Massive Transfusion Chapter 20: Update on blood management in Liver transplant Chapter 21: Acute Intraoperative Blood Loss in a Jehovah's Witness-Medical, Ethical and Legal Issues Allergy Chapter 22: Anaphylaxis in the OR - Causes, Recognition and Treatment Transplant Chapter 23: Anesthetic considerations in a Liver transplant recipient presenting for non-transplant surgery Chapter 24: Patient with Liver Failure for Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosysytemic Shunt PACU Chapter 25: Waking Up My Outpatient, Who Looks to Now Be Seizing. What to do next in PACU? Chapter 26: Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Peri-Anesthetic Concerns and Management Chapter 27: Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Coming For a Total Knee Replacement Obstetrics Chapter 28: Anesthesia in a Pregnant Patient coming for urgent non-obstetric surgery Chapter 29: Preeclampsia Problem Based Learning Discussion Chapter 30: Pregnancy Management in a Parturient with Tetralogy of Fallot Renal Chapter 31: Intraoperative Hyperkalemia Endocrine Chapter 32: Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) Management Chapter 33: Myasthenia gravis patient coming for ureteroscopy Chapter 34: Patient with a Large Goiter for Thyroid Surgery Hematology Chapter 35: Sickle Cell Disease and Cholecystectomy Chapter 36: Anesthesia in a patient on anticoagulant - dabigatran coming for emergency surgery ENT Chapter 37: Tracheal Stenosis Chapter 38: Methemoglobinemia Chapter 39: Anesthesia for Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Chapter 40: Anesthetic management of a patient with Multiple Laryngeal Papillomatosis Chapter 41: Anesthetic management of the patient with retropharyngeal abscess with emphasis on the perioperative and airway management Ambulatory Chapter 42: Anesthesia for Carpal Tunnel Surgery Bariatric anesthesia Chapter 43: Peri-operative Care of the Bariatric Surgery Patient Miscellaneous Chapter 44: Anesthetic considerations in patients with automatic implantable cardio defibrillator presenting for non-cardiac surgery. Chapter 45: Anesthetic Considerations in Autonomic Hypereflexia Chapter 46: NPO Guidelines Chapter 47: Severe COPD patient coming for retinal detachment surgery Practice Management Issues Chapter 48: Utilization of Practice Improvement Methodologies to Enhance the OR efficiency Chapter 49: Operating Room Fire Chapter 50: Intraoperative Awareness Chapter 51: Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD) Index
Tracey Straker, MD MS MPH FASA Professor Anesthesiology Director General Anesthesia Director of Advanced Airway Fellowship and Rotation Department of Anesthesiology Montefiore Medical Center The University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York Shobana Rajan, MD Assistant Professor and Staff Anesthesiologist, General Anesthesiology Associate Program Director, Neuroanesthesia Fellowship Assistant Director, PACU Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
