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Anesthesia for Aortic Surgery

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Diseases of the aorta requiring surgical intervention can be some of the most complex cases the anesthesiologist can be called upon to manage. Many factors influence the anesthetic management of these cases. The anatomic location of the dissection or aneurysm must be considered when planning the type and location of invasive monitors. The surgical plan can require deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), single lung ventilation or other specialized techniques. This chapter will briefly review the disease states and surgical treatments of thoracic aortic dissections and aneurysms, followed with the anesthetic management of these cases.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Mario Christopher DeAngelis M.D. & Michael Stuart Green D.O., M.B.A.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hari Prasad Krovvidi Venkata

  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Mark Powell

  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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DeAngelis, M.C., Green, M.S. (2018). Anesthesia for Aortic Surgery. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_9

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