Open AccessPerioperative anesthesia management for pulmonary endarterectomy: Adopting an established European Protocol for the Asian Population
Author(s) -
Yufan Chen,
Zihui Tan,
Shitalkumar Sharad Shah,
Kenny Loh
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_63_18
Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , anesthesia , population , intensive care medicine , surgery , environmental health
Anesthesia for pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) has always been one of the challenges of anesthesia. As one of the leading cardiothoracic institutions in Southeast Asia, our hospital has vast interest in this subject. A local multidisciplinary team was deployed to an expert center in the United Kingdom (UK), and the experience was then integrated to the care of our patients. We present a case series of ten patients undergoing anesthesia for PEA, a first for our institution, and discuss techniques as well as potential complications.