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The Anaesthetic Management of Patients with Genitourinary Cancer

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The aim of this chapter is to consider the important principles and aspects of anaesthesia that are relevant to oncologists and surgeons. The chapter will focus upon preoperative preparation for surgery, peri-operative management including monitoring and analgesia along with salient principles of postoperative management. Urological procedures vary from minor day cases to major exploratory or reconstructive surgery. Regardless of the magnitude of surgery there is a need to manage patient physiology and biochemistry with control of pain such that the overall patient experience is excellent.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London, EC1A 7BE, UK

    Rajesh Mehta MBBS, BSc, FRCA

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK

    Ravishankar Rao Baikady FRCA

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  1. Department of Urology, Homerton University Hospital & Formerly St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Vinod H. Nargund

  2. Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

    Derek Raghavan

  3. Radiation Oncology, Cedars Sinai Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Howard M. Sandler

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Mehta, R., Baikady, R.R. (2015). The Anaesthetic Management of Patients with Genitourinary Cancer. In: Nargund, V., Raghavan, D., Sandler, H. (eds) Urological Oncology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-482-1_11

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