Your patient has Pulmonary Hypertension.
You are to give anesthesia to a 65-year-old woman for laparoscopic low anterior colon resection. She has recently been diagnosed with colorectal carcinoma. The patient has been a heavy smoker in the past and has severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with secondary moderate pulmonary hypertension. She also has essential hypertension. Medications include a beta-blocker, ACE inhibitor, inhaled steroid/beta-agonist and aspirin.
What are your concerns with this patients Hx?
What are the concerns with this surgery?
How would you handle the anesthetic?
Mike
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