Respiratory Diseases
Key points ▪ Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas have congenital and hereditary etiology, and patients are at risk for life-threatening rupture requiring surgery. ▪ Wegener’s granulomatosis can affect any organ system, although…
Obesity and Nutrition Disorders
Key points ▪ Obesity is a common disease. The number of overweight, obese, and morbidly obese persons has increased alarmingly in the last three decades. ▪ Body mass index (BMI)…
Cardiac Diseases
Key points ▪ Even the most uncommon cardiac diseases are characterized by common and classifiable patterns of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. ▪ Knowledge of disease effects on determinants of cardiac…
Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases
Key points ▪ During ophthalmic surgery, the anesthesiologist is often positioned away from the patient’s face, preventing immediate access to the airway, and during many laryngologic surgeries, must share the…
