Anaesthesia for Uncommon and Emerging Procedures

Basavana G. Goudra, MD, FRCA, FCARCSI is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He is also the director of endoscopy anesthesia services at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. After completion of primary medical education at Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India, he spent next 5 years in the Indian Air Force, followed by anesthesia residency at the prestigious Jawaharlal Institute of Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry. Subsequently, he moved to Ireland for Specialist training. Later on, he trained as a fellow in pediatric anesthesia at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving to the United Kingdom to work as a consultant anesthetist for NHS, England. His main area of focus is out of operating room anesthesia with an emphasis on anesthesia for endoscopic procedures and total intravenous anesthesia. He has conducted extensive clinical research and published widely including two editing popular anesthesia text books "Anesthesiology: A Practical Approach" and "Out of Operating Room Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Review". Both of these springer publications were extremely well received. Additionally, he has invented airway devices "Goudra Bite Block" and "Goudra Mask Airway" that are likely to improve the safety and efficiency of out of operating room anesthesia practice.

Anesthesia for Endoscopic Bariatric Surgery

Anesthesia for Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM)

Anesthesia for Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

Anesthesia for Jugular Foramen Tumors: Paragangliomas and Schwannomas 

Anesthesia for Robot-Assisted Gynecological Surgery

Anesthesia for Proton Beam Therapy

Anesthesia for robot-assisted laparoscopic approaches for pediatric urologic surgery

Anesthetic Management for Whole Lung Lavage in Patients with Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

Telehealth in Anesthesia, an Update

Endoscopic Lung Volume Reduction (ELVR)- Anesthetic Challenges

Anesthesia for brachytherapy 

Anesthesia for Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Cell Autotransplantation (TPIAT)

Anesthetic Management for Small Bowel Transplantation

Nuss Procedure

Congenital chest wall abnormalities and anesthetic challenges

Anesthesia Considerations for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery

Anesthesia for Surgical Procedures in Conjoined Twins

Anesthesia for Conjoined Twins-Basic Principles 

Anesthesia for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedures

Anesthetic Considerations in Candidates for Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)

Anesthetic challenges in minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Surgical Treatment of Infective Endocarditis (IE): Anesthesia Considerations

Anesthetic Management for Atrial Fibrillation Procedures in the Electrophysiology Lab

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Anesthesia Considerations for Septal Myectomy

Surgical Ventricular Remodeling (SVR): Anesthesia Considerations

Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation and Anesthesia

Pediatric Lung Transplantation and Anesthesia

Anaesthesic considerations in fetal therapy

Anesthesia for Uterine Transplant Surgery

Anesthesia for Pancreas Transplant

Anesthetic Management during Surgery for Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Anaesthesia for catecholamine-secreting glomus jugulare tumor resection

Anesthesia for the EXIT Procedure

Anesthesia for Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) Disorders

Anesthesia for parturient with peripartum cardiomyopathy

Anesthesia for Intrapartum Fetal Surgery

Anesthesia for Deep Brain Stimulation

Anesthesia for Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)

Anesthetic management of tracheal /airway stents

Anesthetic Management of Minimally Invasive Pulmonary Thrombo-embolectomy

Anesthesia for the Patient With Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

Paraesophageal Hernia- The Bane of Hiatus Hernia