Anaesthetic Management of a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy for Fracture Femur Surgery-A Case Report
Published: March 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.4154
Koramutla Pradeep Kumar, Gudaru Jagadesh
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Balaji Institute of Surgery Research and Rehabilitation for Disabled,
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
2. Professor and Head, Department of Orthopaedics, and Director,
Balaji Institute of Surgery Research and Rehabilitation for Disabled, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Koramutla Pradeep Kumar,
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Birrd (T), Tirupati-517507, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Phone: +919440012363, E-mail: drpradeep9@gmail.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined as impairment of the ventricular function of the myocardium. The management of a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy, who undergoes a non-cardiac surgery, is always a challenge for an anaesthesiologist, as this situation is associated with a high mortality rate. We are reporting the successful anaesthetic management of a patient with severe dilated cardiomyopathy for fractured femur surgical repair under graded epidural anaesthesia.
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