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Epidural adhesiolysis
Epidural analgesia/anesthesia
Epidural catheter, anticoagulation and placement of C.4. How would you anesthetize this patient for an open repair of the aneurysm? What techniques could be used for an endovascular AAA repair? Discuss the various anesthetic techniques that can be employed for this surgery. C.5. This patient is to be heparinized intraoperatively, and anticoagulation might be continued postoperatively. Is this a contraindication to the preoperative placement of either an epidural or intrathecal catheter? What if the patient is receiving anticoagulants in the preoperative period?
Epidural hematoma
Epidural neuroplasty
Epidural steroid injection for low back pain - B.2. What interventional treatments are available and how should they be used? lumbar, safety improvements recommended for transforaminal
Epiduroscopy
Epiglottitis
Epilepsy awake craniotomy for (See Awake craniotomy, for eloquent cortex mapping and surgery) - A.2. What is the underlying pathology? awake craniotomy for (See Awake craniotomy, for eloquent cortex mapping and surgery) - D.5. Discuss postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction following uncomplicated carotid intervention. drug treatment for drug treatment for - A.2. What is the underlying pathology?
Epinephrine
EPs. See Evoked potentials
Epsilon aminocaproic acid (EACA)
EPTS (estimated post-transplant survival)
Equipment checkout
Equipment failure checking for common sites for intraoperative management medical disease and differential diagnosis medical disease and differential diagnosis - D.6. What is the evidence regarding the efficacy and utility of perioperative gabapentinoids, intraoperative methadone, and subanesthetic ketamine in postoperative recovery as recommended in ERAS protocols? postoperative management preoperative evaluation and preparation - B.1. What should be included in the equipment checkout in preparation for anesthesia? preoperative evaluation and preparation - D.6. What is the evidence regarding the efficacy and utility of perioperative gabapentinoids, intraoperative methadone, and subanesthetic ketamine in postoperative recovery as recommended in ERAS protocols? preventing
ERAS
See Enhanced Recovery after Thoracic Surgery (ERATS) B.2. What are the pulmonary function guidelines that indicate an increased risk for morbidity and mortality? C.16. What respiratory parameters will you target during OLV? How could you improve oxygenation during OLV?
Ergot alkaloids, for myometrial contractility
See Expiratory reserve volume (ERV) A.10. What changes occur in Pao2 and Paco2 in patients with MO? A.7. Describe the abnormalities seen in spirometry, lung volumes, and lung capacities during an asthmatic attack. A.9. Describe the changes that occur in the following respiratory parameters in patients with MO. B.3. Define normal lung volumes and lung capacities. Give normal values for an average adult male. C.2. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Difficult Airway Algorithm provides a guideline for management of the difficult airway. How do the comorbidities in patients with MO and OSA modify implementation of the algorithm? See Expiratory reserve volume (ERV)
Eschar B.2. What are the various operative and management options available for severely burned patients? B.3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of early tangential excision split-thickness skin grafting (TE/STSG)?
See End-stage liver disease (ESLD) A.10. Why do patients with ESLD have abnormalities of hemostasis? A.2. What are the indications and contraindications for liver transplantation? A.6. Describe the cardiovascular physiology of patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). B.1. What preoperative workup is desirable? B.4. What is a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure? What is the role of TIPS in the management of patients with ESLD? C.14. What causes intraoperative bleeding during each phase of liver transplantation? How is coagulopathy monitored and treated? What are thromboelastography (TEG) and rotational thromboelastography (ROTEM)? C.3. How does the liver disease affect intraoperative medication management? Heparin Liver Transplantation See End-stage liver disease (ESLD)
Esmolol A.14. What is the mechanism of action of the major antihypertensive drugs? C.6. What other measures can prevent hypertension and tachycardia at the time of tracheal intubation? D.2. Postoperatively, the patient's blood pressure is 170/96 mm Hg. Will you treat this? for asthmatic patients - A.5. What are the triggers of bronchospasm? for cerebral aneurysm procedures for controlled hypotension for kidney transplantation for mitral stenosis for mitral stenosis in pregnancy - C.7. What technique could you use for general anesthesia in this patient? for myocardial ischemia prevention/reduction for myocardial ischemia prevention/reduction - C.10. What is the significance of tight control of the heart rate intraoperatively? for tetralogy of Fallot for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair - C.3. What are the specific considerations for anesthetic management and monitoring of the patient presenting for open TAAA repair?
Esophageal atresia (EA) anomalies associated with diagnosis of inheritance of open repair, steps of pathophysiology of types and classification of Esophageal atresia (EA)
Esophageal stethoscope, in craniotomy
Esophagus, normal development of A.2. What is the pathophysiology of this disease? A.3. Describe the normal development of the trachea and esophagus.
See End-systolic pressure-volume relation (ESPVR) A.3. What are pressure-volume (P-V) loops? What do the different inflection points represent? A.4. What are representative P-V loops for the four valvular lesions? D.4. What is gram-negative sepsis? Describe the clinical picture and treatment. See End-systolic pressure-volume relation (ESPVR)
ESRD
Essential hypertension A.1. What are some common etiologies of arterial hypertension? A.5. What is the pathophysiology of essential hypertension?
Esters B.10. What are the two major classes of local anesthetics? Describe the major differences in their clinical pharmacology. B.11. What factors determine the onset, potency, and duration of local anesthetic block?
Estimated post-transplant survival (EPTS)