Anaesthiologic provision of operations in scoliotic patients with simultaneous intervention on the ventral and dorsal spine

The experience in the anaesthiologic provision of 8 operations for the extremely severe rigid scoliosis is presented. Surgical intervention consisted of multilevel (6-7 levels) discectomy via transthoratic approach with subsequent implantation of Cotrel-Dubousset system. Such operations are rather traumatic and are characterized by a considerable blood loss, long time of general anaesthesia. The operations are to be performed under a careful monitoring of the cardio-vascular system, volume of circulating blood and qualitative blood content. The work of anaesthiologist consisted of preoperative correction of the initial hypovolemia without the dextranes, multicomponent anaesthesia with main analgetic, controlled hypotension, prevention of intraoperative blood loss and reinfusion, maintenance of temperature balance. It is shown that in complex approach to the management of such patients the long and adequate anaesthesia with rather short (3-4 days) subsequent admission of patients to the ICU is possible.