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World J Obstet Gynecol. Nov 10, 2013; 2(4): 129-136
Published online Nov 10, 2013. doi: 10.5317/wjog.v2.i4.129
Anesthetic management of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy procedures
Davide Corbella, Emanuele Piraccini, Paolo Finazzi, Pietro Brambillasca, Viviana Prussiani, Massimo Ruggero Corso, Claudio Germandi, Vanni Agnoletti
Davide Corbella, Paolo Finazzi, Pietro Brambillasca, Viviana Prussiani, Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, 24100 Bergamo, Italy
Emanuele Piraccini, Massimo Ruggero Corso, Vanni Agnoletti, Department of Emergency, Anesthesia Unit Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, 47121 Forlì, Italy
Claudio Germandi, Department of Anesthesiology, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi hospital, 40138 Bologna, Italy
Author contributions: Corbella D performed the bibliographic research and wrote the first version of the paper; Brambillasca P and Prussiani V revised the paper and made the preliminary bibliographic research about this topic; Finazzi P revised the paper and made the post-editing; Agnoletti V revised the paper and gave substantial contribution in the design and conception of the paper; Germandi C and Piraccini E revised the paper and made the preliminary bibliographic research about this topic; Corso MR revised the paper and made the post-editing; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to: Davide Corbella, MD, Department of Anesthesia, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Piazza OMS, 1, 24100 Bergamo, Italy. dcorbella@hpg23.it
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Received: December 13, 2012
Revised: April 17, 2013
Accepted: May 18, 2013
Published online: November 10, 2013
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Core tip: The strenght of this review is to be part of an editorial project that addresses all the aspects of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and cytoreductive surgery procedure. As last article of this special number it gives a comprehensive overview of the anestesiologic issues and an in-depth view of the perioperative problems and how they affect life and quality of of the patients that undergone this type of surgery. Moreover for every topic preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative considerations are provided in order to give a clear guide to the physician that approchese these patients.