...0 21 09 2000 A 77-year-old woman was referred preoperatively to confirm a right posterior tarsal tunnel syndrome. She had developed burning pain on her right sole which had worsened during the previous 2 months. Surgery had been performed on the left ankle for similar symptoms 10 years before...

...0 02 03 2006 The patient is visited preoperatively by the anaesthetist, to ensure that the patient is in an optimal condition for anaesthesia. It allows the anaesthetist to reassure the patient and to discuss with her the choices for anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia. Any preoperative...

... preoperatively except for controlled hypertension. Postoperatively she was noted to have become bradycardic, rate 40/min, shortly before going into ventricular tachycardia which rapidly regenerated to ventricular fibrillation. She responded to a 220 J DC shock, emerging into a broad complex bradycardia of 40/min...