Anesthesiologists often face a difficult situation of anesthetic choice during surgical procedures, especially in adults. The primary goal of anesthesia is the maintenance of physiologic homeostasis while minimizing the adverse outcomes in the perioperative period. This article is intended to provide evidence-based usefulness of anesthetic choices. Few factors that determine the choice of anesthesia: Independent Safety: This is an evaluation of whether one anesthesia (general or regional) safer than the other independent of disease or surgical procedure.
Dependent Safety: Again, evaluating independent safety versus the disease dependent safety. This is actually the risk versus benefits of both independent and dependent safety of an anesthesia or technique. The presence of comorbidity: Safety of any anesthetic agent should be evaluated for the presence of other comorbidities during the…
