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Anesthesia for Major Orthopedic Surgeries

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Major orthopedic surgery is a continually growing field in developed nations across the world. The most common major joint procedures include total hip arthroplasty (THA), total knee replacement (TKR), pelvic fracture surgery (PFS) and shoulder surgery. As the incidence of these cases continue to rise, anesthesiologists must become better attuned to the special requirements of these surgeries. Peri-operative considerations used to guide the anesthetic plan include the patient’s age, indication for surgery, surgical approach, and comorbid medical conditions. This chapter will discuss the preoperative patient optimization, specific operating room considerations, intraoperative care, and postoperative pain management. The perioperative considerations presented herein can additionally be extrapolated with adaptation to most other orthopedic surgical interventions.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    George Pan M.D. & Bradley Reid M.D.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Pan, G., Reid, B. (2018). Anesthesia for Major Orthopedic Surgeries. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_75

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