Acute Anesthetic Emergencies

Anesthetic Management of Vascular Emergencies

Despite the increasing number of elective abdominal aneurysmectomies, rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms still occurs. In 1950, Estes ~ reported that when no surgical resection was performed, ruptured aneurysms accounted for 63.3% of the deaths occurring at 5 years from the time of diagnosis of the aneurysm. In another report, 2 in cases in which the aneurysm was not resected, 35% of all dea...

Neurological emergencies: acute stroke.

Stroke causes a vast amount of death and disability throughout the world, yet for many healthcare professionals it remains an area of therapeutic nihilism, and thus uninteresting. This negative perception is shared by the general public, who often have a poor understanding of the early symptoms and significance of a stroke. Yet within the past few years there have been many important developmen...

Acute chemical emergencies.

From the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. (S.N.K.); the Department of Environmental Health, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (S.N.K., D.C.C.); the Pulmonary–Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (D.C.C.); and the Northeast Specialty and Rehabilitation Hospital–Center for Occupa...

Management of anesthetic emergencies and complications outside the operating room.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Anesthesia outside the operating room is commonly uncomfortable and risky. In this setting, anesthetic emergencies or complications may occur. This review aims to report the most recent updates regarding the management of prehospital anesthesia, anesthesia in the trauma and emergency rooms, and anesthesia for endoscopy and interventional radiology. RECENT FINDINGS After trac...

Acute Management of Neurological Emergencies