Critically ill COVID-19 patients attended by anesthesiologists in northwestern Spain: a multicenter prospective observational study.

Background And Objectives: There are limited information on outcome, complications and treatments of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of this study is to describe the clinical ICU course, treatments used, complications and outcomes, of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted in seven ICU in Galicia region during the 2020 March-April pandemic peak.

Methods: Between March 21 and April 19, 2020, we evaluated critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU of Anesthesia of seven hospitals in Galicia, northwestern Spain.

[Sequential percutaneous surgical treatment in a woman with severe aortic stenosis and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy].

Quality of life is seriously compromised in both severe aortic stenosis and in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. At advanced stages of disease, symptoms become incapacitating. Surgical correction is extremely effective, reducing symptoms and improving functional capacity.

[Repair of congenital heart disease in an adult with septal defects and pulmonary stenosis: anesthetic management].

A 66-year-old man with complex congenital heart defects (atrial septal defects, with incomplete cor triatriatum, an aneurysmal sac in the membranous septum, ventricular communication and pulmonary valve stenosis) was scheduled for surgery for progressive dyspnea even at rest. During anesthetic induction, effort was made to avoid increased shunting. Surgery consisted of resection of the cor triatriatum membrane, closure of communications with pericardial patches, pulmonary valve replacement, replacement of the root with a porcine root, and pulmonary artery aneurysmorrhaphy.