
Episode 257: Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery with Dr. Cara Esser
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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The Importance of Intraoperative Management for Transphenoidal Surgery
With cushion disease patients, they can have hypertension, diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, central obesity. With acromegaly, these patients can be difficult airways with large tongues and a narrow glottis. So all the preoperatively, you want to know what type of tumor it is. And that's obviously important to know because you can have effects on your anesthetic.
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