Regional Anesthesia for Abdominal Surgery in a Patient with Severe Chronic Respiratory Failure: A Case Report
- Author:
Misoon LEE
1
;
Younghoon WOO
;
Jaewoong JUNG
;
Yang-Hoon CHUNG
;
Bon Sung KOO
;
Sung-Hwan CHO
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- From:Soonchunhyang Medical Science 2021;27(2):118-120
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: General anesthesia is associated with a risk for postoperative pulmonary complications. The risk is even higher in patients with chronic respiratory failure, and postoperative mortality rates are high. Proper perioperative anesthetic management is important in such patients. Therefore, it is essential to optimize the patient’s physical status before anesthesia and to determine the optimal anesthesia technique based on the pre-anesthesia evaluation of the patient’s pulmonary function. We successfully performed abdominal surgery under spinal anesthesia in a patient with severe chronic respiratory failure.
