Presse Med
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Anaesthesia of patients with neurological disease is feasible but each specific disease requires specific adjustments accordingly. A preoperative evaluation of neurological status is required and patients should be informed of the potential harms in the perioperative period. Regional anaesthesia is commonly considered as contraindicated in these patients although it is commonly not. ⋯ Regional anaesthesia is doable in patients with a dysimmune demyelinated lesions out of the regeneration phase of the disease. In peripheral hereditary or acquired neuropathies regional anaesthesia is also feasible. Epilepsy, spina bifida and traumatic pathologies of the spine are not contraindications to regional anaesthesia but the latter require technical adjustment.
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In 2011, 1.7 % of the French population was receiving a Vitamine K Antagonist (VKA) anticoagulant therapy. VKA related adverse events are the first cause for iatrogenic events in France. Anticoagulant bridging period is a period at both increased risk for thromboembolic and bleeding events. The Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) established in 2008 recommendations in order to help physicians to manage anticoagulant therapy in case of invasive procedure or surgery, according to the procedure and the indication of VKA. ⋯ Few physicians manage VKA therapy in accordance with HAS recommendations in case of invasive procedure. There are many hypotheses: bad knowledge of recommendations, overestimation of the thromboembolic risk related to VKA stopping during the period of the invasive procedure, underestimation of the risk of bleeding related to the bridging period of time; influence of specialists. We propose a decisional algorithm in order to improve the implementation of HAS recommendations in usual care.