Tag Joyce Chang

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

INTRODUCTION Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initially defined over 50 years ago as the administration of mouth-to-mouth ventilation and closed chest cardiac compressions in a pulseless patient. Since that time, significant advances in CPR and cardiovascular life support have been made.…

Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery

Key Points ▪ Perioperative management of patients undergoing vascular surgery requires an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of the specific vascular lesion. ▪ Major vascular surgery is particularly challenging to the anesthesiologist because these are high-risk operations in a patient…