title: Reactive airway and anaesthesia: challenge to the anaesthetist and the way forward.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Patients with concurrent medical conditions such as Reactive airway disease presenting for anaesthesia, and surgery have potentially increased risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality if not well managed.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To highlight the need for adequate perioperative care and review the evidence for selection of techniques in the anesthesia for such cases"
  
  
  METHODS
  An illustrative case is presented.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The main goal of the anaesthetist is to administer safe and sufficient anaestheia without precipitating bronchospasm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. dribrala@yahoo.com
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lawal
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Bakari
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications; D001986:Bronchial Spasm / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods*; D019990:Perioperative Care; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D012307:Risk Factors; D012308:Risk Management