Beach Chair Open Anesthesia. We recommend cycling the blood pressure before raising the head to have accurate and current blood pressure data. 29 2018 27 Open Journal of Anesthesiology The Cardiac Function in the Beach Chair Position under General Anesthesia Kumiko Tanabe1 Yuko Yamada1 Kiyoshi Nagase1 Nobuo Terabayashi2 Hiroki Iida1 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine Gifu Japan.
To understand the various influences on cerebral oxygenation for patients anesthetized in the beach chair position. Cerebral oxygenation in the beach chair position. A Target Plus partner.
The beach chair position 30-90 above the horizontal plane is widely used for orthopedic shoulder arthroscopy procedures as it offers advantages such as excellent intraarticular visualization and reduced brachial plexus strain.
In the beach chair position anesthesia-related complications are more common than in the lateral decubitus position including spinal and cerebral ischemia and death. Very Low 5-10 mlPost-op Pain. Reduced cerebral perfusion seems to occur frequently during shoulder surgery in the beach chair position BCP primarily in patients under general anesthesia with positive pressure ventilation which may be magnified by deliberate hypotension. Approximately two-thirds of the 400000 shoulder surgery procedures performed annually in the United States are performed with the patients head elevated above the horizontal a position know as the beach chair position BCP.
