Clinical Anesthesia

No Fiberoptic Intubation System: A Potential Problem.- Is the Patient Extubated?.- A Strange Computerized Electrocardiogram Interpretation.- Fractured Neck of Femur in an Elderly Patient.- Spinal Anesthetic That Wears Off Before Surgery Ends.- Just a Simple Monitored Anesthesia Care Case.- Smell of Burning in the Operating Room.- Inguinal Hernia Repair in a Diabetic Patient.- The Case of the "Hidden" IV.- Postoperative Painful Eye.- Awake Craniotomy with Language Mapping.- Gum Elastic Bougie: Tips for Its Use.- External Vaporizer Leak During Anesthesia.- Manual Ventilation by a Single Operator: With Patient Turned 180 Degrees Away from the Anesthesia Machine.- Life-Threatening Arrhythmia in an Infant.- Tongue Ring: Anesthetic Risks and Potential Complications.- Hasty C-Arm Positioning: A Recipe for Disaster.- Inability to Remove a Nasogastric Tube.- An Unusual Cause of Difficult Tracheal Intubation.- Pulmonary Edema After Abdominal Laparoscopy.- Difficult Laryngeal Mask Airway Placement: A Possible Solution.- Postoperative Airway Complication After Sinus Surgery.- An Unusual Capnograph Tracing.- A Respiratory Dilemma During a Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Procedure.- A Tracheostomy Is Urgently Needed, but You Have Never Done One.- General Anesthesia for a Patient with a Difficult Airway and a Full Stomach.- Jehovah's Witness and a Potentially Bloody Operation.- Intraoperative Insufflation of the Stomach.- Sudden Intraoperative Hypotension.- Overestimation of Blood Pressure from an Arterial Pressure Line.- Severe Decrease in Lung Compliance During a Code Blue.- Shortening Postanesthesia Recovery Time After an Epidural: Is It Possible?.- Difficult Airway in an Underequipped Setting.- Delayed Cutaneous Fluid Leak After Removal of an EpiduralCatheter.- Traumatic Hemothorax and Same-Side Central Venous Access.- Single Abdominal Knife Wound? Easy Case?.- A Draw-Over Vaporizer with a Nonrebreathing Circuit.- Unexpected Intraoperative "Oozing".- Central Venous Access and the Obese Patient.- Taking Over for a Colleague: Always a Potential Concern.- Intraoperative Epidural Catheter Malfunction.- Breathing Difficulties After an Electroconvulsive Therapy.- White "Clumps" in the Blood Sample from an Arterial Line: Are You Concerned?.- Anesthesia for a Surgeon Who Has Previously Lost His Privileges.- Airway Obstruction in a Prone Patient.- A Question You Should Always Ask.- Postoperative Vocal Cord Paralysis.- A Serious Problem.- A Leaking Endotracheal Tube in a Prone Patient.- Lessons from the Field: Unusual Problems Require Unusual Solutions in Impossible Situations.- An "Old Trick" but a Potential Problem.- A Loud "Pop" Intraoperatively and Now You Cannot Ventilate.- Postoperative Median Nerve Injury.- A Patient in a Halo: Watch Out.- Now or Never: Developing Professional Judgment.- General Anesthesia in a Patient with Chronic Amphetamine Use.- What Is Wrong with This Picture?.- The One-Eyed Patient.- A Near Tragedy.- Robot-Assisted Surgery: A Word of Caution.- An Airway Emergency in an Out of Hospital Surgical Office.- Bonus Question: Is the Patient Paralyzed?.