High thoracic epidural anesthesia and coronary artery disease in surgical and non-surgical patients

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Julian AlvarezPeter G Atanassoff

Abstract

Even though high thoracic epidural anesthesia has been shown to be highly efficacious in the control of symptoms in refractory angina, its general use is still restricted. In patients who undergo coronary revascularization, however, the technique is becoming more and more popular. The present review outlines the use of high thoracic epidural anesthesia in patients with ischemic heart disease who underwent coronary revascularization in order to further reveal high thoracic epidural anesthesia's low complication rate and to analyze why physicians still refrain from using it more frequently. The incidence of severe hemodynamic complications after high thoracic epidural anesthesia is low in patients with coronary artery disease. The main advantage would be a myocardial sympathectomy leading to an improvement in the oxygen input-demand relationship. Likewise, a decrease in mortality due to respiratory complications could not be shown. In patients undergoing myocardial revascularization with full anticoagulation there is an increased risk of epidural hematoma formation. Its precise risk is difficult to evaluate. There is an overall low rate of epidural hematomas as a result of high thoracic epidural anesthesia. With the available dat...Continue Reading

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