title: Anaesthesia for thyroid surgery: perioperative management.
abstract: The aim of this review is to analyse anaesthesiologic preoperative assessment, intraoperative management and postoperative complications of patients with thyroid disease. A special care is paid to difficult airway recognition and resolving this situation. Anaesthetist's and surgeon's point of view of perioperative and postoperative complications is both discussed with special interest on early surgical complications and the need for urgent anaesthetic treatment. Particularly total intravenous anaesthesia and recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring actually are two end-points in the thyroid surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Palliative Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy. alessandro.bacuzzi@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bacuzzi
authors.forename: Gianlorenzo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dionigi
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Del Bosco
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cantone
authors.forename: Tommaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sansone
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Di Losa
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cuffari
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013965:Thyroidectomy / Q000379:methods*