Anaesthetic Management for Laparotomy in a patient with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Keywords:
Anaesthetic, bilateral tranchal vagotomyAbstract
It is a great challenge for an anaesthesiologist to manage a case of severely affected ankylosing spondylitis with limited available facilities as it produces lots of problem associated with it. We report a case where bilateral tranchal vagotomy and gastro-jejunostomy was done for gastric outlet obstruction in a patient of ankylosing spondylitis. This report giving importance of pre-anaesthetic assessment of any anatomical deformity and discussion of anaesthetic complications to be faced, decision of anaesthetic technique as well as proper counseling of patient.
CBMJ 2017 July: Vol. 06 No. 02 P: 38-41
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