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This chapter discusses the anaesthetic management of plastic surgery. It begins with general principles of the anaesthetic management of plastic surgical patients. Surgical procedures covered include breast augmentation, reconstruction, and reduction surgery, correction of prominent ears, facelift (rhytidectomy), free-flap surgery, liposuction, and skin grafting. The chapter concludes with a series of vignettes of minor plastic surgical operations.
Title: Plastic surgery
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This chapter discusses the anaesthetic management of plastic surgery.
It begins with general principles of the anaesthetic management of plastic surgical patients.
Surgical procedures covered include breast augmentation, reconstruction, and reduction surgery, correction of prominent ears, facelift (rhytidectomy), free-flap surgery, liposuction, and skin grafting.
The chapter concludes with a series of vignettes of minor plastic surgical operations.
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