Anaesthesia for Renal Transplantation: An Update

Abstract

Attempts at organ transplantation have been made since the 19 th century. Renal transplantation is the preferred treatment for end stage renal disease. Renal transplant anaesthesia requires a thorough understanding of the meta-bolic and systemic abnormalities in end stage renal disease, familiarity with transplant medicine and expertise in managing and optimizing these patients for the best possible outcome. Also, the associated co-morbid conditions increase the complexity of anaesthesia, pain management and perioperative morbidity and mortality. Hence, a good perioperative management of these patients includes a multidisciplinary collaboration with well-planned anaesthetic strategies.

Keywords

• Renal transplantation
• Anaesthesia management
• Recipient
• Cadaver donor
• Living donor