Ace The Anesthesiology Cardiothoracic Exam

Spinal cord stimulators are designed to treat chronic pain. The implantable device offers a nonpharmacological approach to various pain conditions. ...

Surgeons became aware that they would never correct or cure heart conditions unless they could stop the blood circulation through the hea ...

Lidocaine is a local anesthetic drug that produces transient loss of sensory, motor, and autonomic function when the drug is injected or applied in ...

Many patients undergoing major noncardiac as well as vascular surgery are at risk for a major adverse cardiac event (MACE). In the United States, 2 ...

Patients with the clinical and biochemical signs and symptoms of hypoperfusion secondary to cardiac failure or cardiac arrest carry high short-term ...

The Fontan procedure provides a palliative treatment option for pediatric patients with functionally single ventricle congenital heart disease, wit ...

Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is the positive pressure that will remain in the airways at the end of the respiratory cycle (end of e ...

Isoflurane is a volatile anesthetic that is approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for the induction and maintenance of general anesthes ...

Lumbar sympathetic blocks sympathectomy has been described as an effective pain management treatment strategy for several causes of chronic pain si ...

Airway monitoring involves assessing both a patient’s ventilatory function and ability to perform the adequate gas exchange. Determining a pa ...

Chloroprocaine is an ester class local anesthetic with labeled indications to provide anesthesia through infiltration, peripheral nerve, epidural, ...

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women in the United States and the leading cause of cancer death. One of the primary treatm ...

Emergent thoracotomy is a procedure that is intended to temporize wounds and stabilize a patient via direct control of intrathoracic injuries, deco ...

Inhalation anesthetics (nitrous oxide, halothane, isoflurane, desflurane, sevoflurane most commonly used agents in practice today) are used for ind ...

Tracheostomy is a procedure where an artificial airway is established surgically or percutaneously in the cervical trachea. The term “tracheo ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a major surgical operation where atheromatous blockages in a patient’s coronary arteries are bypass ...

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a dysrhythmia originating at or above the atrioventricular (AV) node and is defined by a narro ...

The blockage of anterior branches of the intercostal nerves is a selective superficial block, with a very low incidence of complications and effect ...