Anaesthesia for non-cardiac surgery in a cardiac transplant recipient

Cardiac transplantation has become the standard therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy and end stage is clinical heart disease & heart failure. With the introduction of newer lmmunosuppressants, together with better patient selection, improved period er at Ive monitoring and care, the overall survival of recipients has improved. An increasing number of patients who received a transplant present for either elective or emergency non_cardiac surgery. We hereby discuss the period era give management of such a patient who came for emergency surgery for upper limb amputation.