Marjorie A Geisz-Everson, Kathleen Wren, Latosha Kennedy
A 53-year-old woman presented to the operating room for surgical correction of pericardial and pleural effusions. Her history included stage IV breast cancer, well-controlled hypertension, and diverticulitis. Although her baseline blood pressure, heart rate, and respirations were normal, she was short of breath with diminished breath sounds on the left side of the lungs and required oxygen, 2 L/min via nasal cannula. The nurse anesthesia student, under the direction of the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) and anesthesiologist, induced general anesthesia with etomidate, fentanyl, lidocaine, and succinylcholine...
February 2008: AANA Journal