Case Report General Anaesthesia and Emergency Surgery in Heart Transplant Recipient

et al.This is an open access article distributed under theCreativeCommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The number of patients who undergo heart transplant is increasing. Due to surgical emergencies, many of thosemay require general anesthesia in hospitals where subspecialized anesthetists may not be available. We present a case of a male patient who had heart transplant and required general anesthesia for emergency appendicectomy. Physiology of the heart after transplant, preoperative considerations, and postoperative monitoring has been discussed in our report. 1