Case Synopsis A 49-year-old man weighing 125 kg is scheduled for decompression laminectomy and instrumented fusion of the lumbar spine at multiple levels for lumbar stenosis. General anesthesia proceeds uneventfully with prone positioning, and the patient’s face and eyes are…
Case Synopsis A 60-year-old man with a history of hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma is scheduled for elective partial liver resection. Preoperative hemoglobin is 10 g Albumin, creatinine, liver enzymes, and prothrombin time (PT) are within normal limits. The surgery…
Case Synopsis A 55-year-old man is scheduled for emergency exploratory laparotomy for small bowel obstruction. Anesthesia is induced with intravenous (IV) fentanyl, lidocaine, propofol, and succinylcholine and maintained with sevoflurane in an air-oxygen mixture with vecuronium. During the surgery the…