Anesthesia for Neuroradiology

Anesthesia services are provided for both diagnostic and intervention procedures in the neuroradiology department. The considerations while providing anesthesia in neuroradiology workplace include providing anesthesia outside the operating room, rapid changes in the patient's physiological status during intervention, procedures performed on sicker patients, day care nature of diagnostic procedures, transport of critical patients between neuroradiology unit and other work areas like intensive care unit and operating room, radiation exposure, and maintaining cardiorespiratory stability during sedation. This chapter discusses several issues related to the periprocedural management of patients undergoing diagnostic procedures like computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and diagnostic angiography and during therapeutic neurointerventions under anesthesia.