Each human being has unique differences in disease susceptibility and drug metabolism. Therefore, diagnostic and therapeutic plans ideally should be tailored individually. This is far from a being a revolutionary concept as it has been in practice in India in various forms of folk medicines.
The field of modern medicine has moved in the genomic era, and the aim of present articles is to engage the anesthesiologists in the current and future genomic issues, we are likely to encounter in the perioperative setting. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, it became theoretically possible to tailor treatment to the precise molecular variations in individuals, potentially revolutionizing health care. Although genomic discoveries have been made in many major aspects of medicine, including cardiovascular, digestive, nervous system, immune system, and metabolic disease, along with…
