The perioperative management of patients with ME and Long COVID
In this episode of Anaesthesia on air Dr Anton Krige, RCoA clinical lead for ME/CFS, talks with Dr Charles Shepherd from the ME Association and Helen Baxter, a patient advocate for ME patients, about the College’s latest patient information project ME/CFS and anaesthesia. They explore this poorly understood medical condition and the strategies that anaesthetists will find useful in managing these patients in the perioperative period.
Links and resources:
- ME/CFS and anaesthesia
- ME Association
- 25% ME Group
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management
- All Party Parliamentary Group on ME: Rethinkg ME report 2022
- UK Government: My full reality: the interim delivery plan on ME/CFS
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Dr Anton Krige
Consultant anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Honourary Professor with the local medical school
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Dr Charles Shepherd
Medical adviser to the ME Association
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Helen Baxter
Advocacy worker for the 25% ME group