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Skinfold thickness test
Skin grafting, tangential excision split-thickness A.15. What complications are associated with electrical burns? 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)?
Sleep apnea Sleep apnea Sleep apnea
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), tonsillectomy for
Sleep study
See Bariatric surgery B.2. Bariatric surgery patients often receive preoperative screening procedures performed in the endoscopy suite. Describe the anesthetic considerations. See Bariatric surgery
See Single-lung transplantation (SLT) A.5. How is the decision made to transplant one or both lungs, and does this influence preoperative management? A.6. How does a single-lung transplantation (SLT) differ technically from a bilateral-lung transplantation (BLT)? B.4. Discuss the clinical value of assessing standard plasma coagulation testing to predict perioperative bleeding. C.12. Would you extubate the patient upon the conclusion of the procedure? C.4. What type of endotracheal tube would you use? How would you ventilate this patient? C.5. Describe the clinical use of viscoelastic testing for timely detection of acquired coagulopathy. C.6. How does OLV affect cardiopulmonary function? C.8. How would you deal with problems related to clamping of the pulmonary artery? D.2. How is postoperative lung ventilation managed, and for how long is it required? D.3. What special precautions should be taken when a lung transplant recipient requires general anesthesia for subsequent nonpulmonary surgery? D.4. What are the long-term outcomes of lung transplantation? Lung Transplantation See Single-lung transplantation (SLT)
Small bowel obstruction antacids and/or histamine-2 blockers in causes of fluid shifts in large bowel obstruction vs.
Smart Vent
Smoke inhalation
Smoking and aortic aneurysm evaluation and laparoscopic surgery and low back pain and lung cancer - A.4. The patient has a long history of cigarette smoking. What is the significance of this finding? What is the importance of the patient's current vaping habit?
Smoking cessation, preoperative B.11. How would you prepare this patient with asthma and COPD for surgery? B.3. How do you evaluate this patient's pulmonary status?
See Sympathetically maintained pain (SMP) A.1. What is the differential diagnosis of pain in this patient? A.9. Define sympathetically maintained pain (SMP) and sympathetically independent pain (SIP). B.13. How will you treat this patient? B.14. What is the pharmacologic management of CRPS? B.15. What is the role of intravenous regional block (Bier block) in diagnosis and treatment of CRPS? B.7. After a stellate ganglion block, this patient reports no significant change in the degree of pain despite developing Horner syndrome. Is the pain psychogenic? Complex Regional Pain Syndromes See Sympathetically maintained pain (SMP)
SNRIs. See Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, and anesthetics (SNRIs)
Society for Vascular Surgery/Society of Thoracic Surgeons (SVS/STS) classification system
Sodium bicarbonate, for cyanotic patients A.7. What are hypercyanotic spells? How are they treated? C.15. If the patient does not respond to the aforementioned treatment and becomes cyanotic, what would you do?
Sodium glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors
Sodium levels in cirrhosis in kidney disease in MELD score in preterm infants in pyloric stenosis in subarachnoid hemorrhage in traumatic brain injury in TURP - C.12. What causes CNS dysfunction in patients who have undergone M-TURP? preoperative management of
Somatic pain
Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) in brain tumor and craniotomy in carotid artery procedures in cerebral aneurysm
Spasmodic croup
Specific gravity of urine, in preterm infants
Spinal anesthesia
Spinal canal endoscopy
Spinal compartments A.4. What causes low back pain? A.5. What are the risk factors for low back pain? A.6. What are the potential sources of pain in the spine?
Spinal cord abdominal/thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm and - B.5. What is the spinal cord blood supply? blood supply - B.5. What is the spinal cord blood supply?
Spinal cord ischemia, thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair and
Spinal cord stimulation complications of for cancer pain for complex regional pain syndrome MRI safety in patients with
Spinal decompression
Spinal facets