Curriculum Resources
Stage 3 Neuroanaesthesia / Advanced Neurocritical Care
Last modified on April 1st, 2022
15.9.1 It is important to engage in a shared decision-making process with patients to discuss the risks and benefits of scheduled or elective major vascular surgery. Details should be explained to the patient in an appropriate setting and in language they can understand. Patient information materials should
be made available to support the patient’s decision with regard to choices on anaesthesia and analgesia.
15.9.2 Deliver safe perioperative care to adults requiring elective intracranial surgery both supratentorial and infratentorial including craniotomies for vascular lesions, pituitary surgery.
HiLLO 10: Intensive Care Medicine specialists will have developed the necessary skills of induction of anaesthesia, airway control, care of the unconscious patient and understanding of surgery and its physiological impact on the patient.
Anaesthesia and pituitary disease
Pituitary disease and anaesthesia – British Journal of Anaesthesia 85 3-14 (2000)
Perioperative management of endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery
Pituitary Adenoma – StatPearls
UK guidelines for the management of pituitary apoplexy
Acromegaly: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. Clinical Practice Guidelines
SNACC – Problem based learning: Pituitary surgery
Anaesthesia for pituitary surgery, NACCS CPD day November 2021
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