“What type of anesthesia is used during vascular surgery?”
I am a 33 year old female. I want to know what type of anesthesia is used during vascular surgery?
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There are multiple types of anesthesia utilizes for vascular surgery. For major procedures, general anesthesia is used. In this procedure, the patient is completely asleep throughout the procedure. For procedures that are not as extensive, there are other anesthetics that are less complicated such as total I.V. (TIVA) and MAC, which are both simpler procedures which utilize the more potent anesthetic agents.
Both general anesthesia, as well as regional anesthesia (spinal or epidural, where the epidural is used for longer than 2-hr procedures).
Most often, general anesthesia is used for vascular surgery for three main reasons: 1) vascular surgeries often require administration of anticoagulants that are relatively contraindicated with regional anesthetics, 2) vascular surgery is often lengthy, beyond the time a regional would last, and 3) vascular surgery often involves loss of blood and need for blood transfusion, as well as hypotension that is complicated by regional anesthesia.
Either general or regional
Depending on where the vessels are located, general anesthesia for everything and May be regional block for lower extremities.
That depends on which vessels. While thoracic, abdominal or neck vessels would most likely require general anesthesia, vascular surgery of the arms and legs could be performed under regional nerve block.
