Case report: Perioperative management of a patient with familial dysautonomia
Open Access
- 8 September 2021
- journal article
- Published by Heighten Science Publications Corporation in Journal of Clinical Intensive Care and Medicine
- Vol. 6 (2), 029-032
- https://doi.org/10.29328/journal.jcicm.1001038
Abstract
Familial dysautonomia is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease affecting cells of the autonomic nervous system. Patients with this disease are insensitive to pain but their autonomic nervous system is still activated with noxious stimuli. This report details a case of a patient with familial dysautonomia who underwent right ankle open reduction and internal fixation for a bimalleolar right ankle fracture. The patients preoperative and intraoperative course were uneventful but shortly after handoff to the intensive care unit, the patient experienced an autonomic crisis. Management of these patients is complex, requiring maintenance of physiologic homeostasis as well as preventing hemodynamic instability caused by noxious stimuli. Any deviations from baseline may cause an autonomic crisis, as happened in our patient. Herein, we detail the perioperative management of a patient with familial dysautonomia in further detail.Keywords
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