Undiagnosed Phaeochromocytoma with Intraoperative Hypertension
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2:00
Clinical Stem
2025.1
You are in between cases in a private hospital list when you are asked to urgently help in the theatre next door. You attend to see a middle-aged male patient being hand ventilated via an endotracheal tube by an experienced anaesthetist. The surgeon is scrubbed but the operation has not started.
The anaesthetic monitor is alarming.
Your colleague asks for help to control the hypertension.
Sections covered in this viva
Section 1 - Acute undifferentiated hypertension after inductionSection 2 - Diagnosis and optimisation of phaeochromocytomaSection 3 - Anaesthesia for un-optimised phaeochromocytoma with bowel obstruction