Open AccessAnaesthetic Management of a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy for Fracture Femur Surgery-A Case Report
Author(s) -
Koramutla Pradeep Kumar,
Gudaru Jagadesh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/7102.4154
Subject(s) - dilated cardiomyopathy , medicine , cardiomyopathy , femur , surgery , anesthesia , cardiology , heart failure
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined as impairment of the ventricular function of the myocardium. The management of a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy, who undergoes a non-cardiac surgery, is always a challenge for an anaesthesiologist, as this situation is associated with a high mortality rate. We are reporting the successful anaesthetic management of a patient with severe dilated cardiomyopathy for fractured femur surgical repair under graded epidural anaesthesia.