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Anaesthesia for thyrotoxic patients: Perioperative management review

Yilkal Tadesse Desta

The aim of this review essay is to analyses anesthesiology perioperative assessment and management of patients with thyroid disease. A special care is paid to difficult airway recognition and resolving this situation, in a patient who may also have significant co-morbidity. Moreover; it is understood that anesthetists are responsible and need to strictly involve in early recognition and management of certain perioperative catastrophic events in associated with thyroid surgery. Recent discussions on Anesthesia Case Management for thyroidectomy are discussed with special interest on the perioperative appreciation of complications and the need for urgent anesthetic interventions.