Perioperative Psychiatry

Paula C. Zimbrean, MD Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Surgery (Transplant) Yale University Mark A. Oldham, MD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center 300 Crittenden Blvd Box PSYCH Rochester, NY 14642 Hochang Benjamin Lee, MD John Romano Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center 300 Crittenden Blvd Box PSYCH Rochester, NY 14642

Introduction.- The role of the psychiatrist in the perioperative setting.- Consenting to surgery: assessing the patient's capacity to make decisions about own medical care.- Delirium.- Management of Psychiatric Medications during Perianesthesia Period.- Psychiatric aspects of perioperative pain.- Perioperative Psychological Interventions.- Psychiatric Aspects of Cardiothoracic Surgery.- Psychiatric aspects of non-cardiac thoracic surgery.- Perioperative Psychiatric Aspects in Neurosurgery.- Perioperative Psychiatric Problems in Organ Transplantation Patients.- Perioperative psychiatric aspects of weight loss surgery.- Aesthetic/Cosmetic Surgery and Psychiatry.- Psychiatric aspects of Obstetrics and Gynecology patients.- Perioperative Psychiatric Conditions and their Treatment in Children and Adolescents.