ambulatory surgery: patients and surgeries selection Outpatient surgery is being performed with increasing frequency due to its significant benefits, including lower costs in health care, and lower incidence of complications and mortality, requiring an appropriate selection of patients and surgeries to be performed in this setting. To select patients and surgeries to be operated on an ambulatory basis, it is relevant an adequate preoperative evaluation. Regarding the risks of patient, it is important the comorbidities and the American Society of Anesthesiologists classification. Risks associated with the type of surgery are divided according to their cardiovascular risk and duration of the procedure. Both will define those suitable for outpatient surgery. Serious complications and associated mortality are infrequents nowadays, therefore it is necessary to take into account other indicators, such as unanticipated hospital admission, hospital readmission and prolonged postoperative stay. There are some patients that require more specific preoperative evaluation, such as the elderly, obese, among others.
RESUMENLa obesidad es una epidemia a nivel mundial, con más de 2.000 millones de adultos con sobrepeso u obesidad, por lo que cada vez es más probable enfrentarse a una embarazada obesa en la práctica clínica del equipo obstétrico. La obesidad incrementa los cambios fisiológicos del embarazo a nivel cardiovascular, respiratorio, metabólico y gastrointestinal, lo que tiene implicancias clínicas que aumentan los costos en salud y la morbimortalidad materna y fetal. Las embarazadas obesas son un constante desafío para el equipo obstétrico, anestesiológico y de salud, debiendo ser enfrentadas de forma multidisciplinaria para la obtención de mejores resultados obstétricos y perinatales. El anestesiólogo debe tener especial cuidado en el manejo analgésico del trabajo de parto y en la técnica anestésica para la operación cesárea. El objetivo central de la siguiente revisión es explicar, analizar y desarrollar las principales implicancias anestésicas a las cuales se ve enfrentado el especialista en una embarazada obesa. SUMMARYObesity is a global epidemic, with more than 2,000 million overweight or obese adults, so it is very likely to have an obese pregnant in the clinical practice of the anesthesiologist. Obesity increases the physiological changes of pregnancy in the cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and gastrointestinal system, which has clinical implications that increase health care costs and maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Obese pregnant are a constant challenge for the obstetric, anesthesiology and health team, and must be considerate in a multidisciplinary way to obtain better maternal and perinatal outcomes. The anesthesiologist should take special care in the labor analgesia and anesthetic technique for caesarean section. The focus of the following review is to present and develop the main anesthetic implications to which the anesthesiologist is confronted in obese pregnant patient.
Plastic surgery and its complications: What we should look?Plastic surgeries are becoming more popular, being performed on a varied type of population and often as office-based procedures. Despite being highly elective procedures, they have risks and complications, which should be reported to patients by the health personnel. The most frequently performed procedures are breast augmentation and body liposuction. The most relevant complications associated with plastic surgery are pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, which is the leading cause of mortality in this type of surgery. Other complications are local anesthetics intoxication secondary to the use of tumescent solution in body liposuction, inadequate management of perioperative intravenous fluids, mild hypothermia and severe pain after surgery caused by poor postoperative analgesia. It is essential to prevent the described complications, which significantly increase morbidity, mortality and hospital stay. The perioperative measures that have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing perioperative risk are thromboprophylaxis, depending on the thrombotic risk categorization of each patient and the use of adequate concentrations of lidocaine and vasoconstrictor in the tumescent solution. Appropriate temperature monitorization and use of conservation measures in patients with exposure of large body surfaces is also an important issue, as is diligence in intraoperative fluid balance and administration of intravenous multimodal analgesia, adjusted to the magnitude of the surgery. In order to achieve this, proper communication between the surgical team, anesthesiologists and nurses is vital, as it permits implementation of specific measures that permit adequate monitorization, prevention of complications and analgesic management described above.
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