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Perioperative Management For the Cocaine-Positive Patient Undergoing Elective Surgery Under General Anesthesia
Cocaine use in the United States is widespread and on the rise.1,2 Due to the increased prevalence of cocaine use, it is likely that the oral and maxillofacial surgeon (OMS) will come across multiple instances of cocaine-positive patients presenting for elective surgery. Studies have already shown that many oral and maxillofacial surgery cases are cancelled due to the presence of cocaine metabolites in urine tests.1,3 Cocaine is a known risk factor for cardiovascular complications (eg, stroke, myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, angina, hypertension, tachycardia, prolonged QT interval, coronary vasospasm, and aortic dissec...
Source: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - January 17, 2019 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Nicholas P. Saggese, Christopher Chang, Vito A. Cardo Source Type: research

Intraoperative stroke in the mandibular osteoradionecrosis: A case report
Publication date: January 2015 Source:Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology, Volume 27, Issue 1 Author(s): Ryo Sasaki , Chie Kagawa , Toshihiro Okamoto , Tomohiro Ando Although risk factors for perioperative stroke during head and neck surgery are known, the risk of perioperative stroke in osteoradionecrosis (ORN) patients is scarcely known. Sixty-seven-year-old male presented ORN in the mandible after 9 years docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fluorouracil (TPF) chemo, and 66Gy radiation therapies for the oropharynx cancer, which was diagnosed Marx's classification class II. After pre-operative hyp...
Source: Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology - January 1, 2015 Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research

Cardiovascular Anesthetic Complications and Treatment in Oral Surgery
Perioperative hypertension is a common problem. If hypertension is left untreated in patients at risk, infarctions and stroke are possible. There are limited choices of antihypertensive agents for the office. Aggressive antihypertensive therapy is not indicated because most of the episodes seen in the office are hypertensive urgencies and not emergencies. Hypotension is usually managed by decreasing the depth of anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and then vasopressors, typically ephedrine or phenylephrine. Consider treatment of hypotension whenever the mean arterial pressure decreases less than 60 mm Hg.
Source: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics - May 17, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Edward C. Adlesic Source Type: research