**Meet the editor**

Víctor M. Whizar-Lugo graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital General de México, Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición in México City. He undertook his fellowship at the Anesthesia Department, Pain Clinic at University of California, Los Angeles,

USA. He currently works at the ICU in the Hospital General de Tijuana, ISESALUD. He belongs to the Institutos Nacionales de Salud as an associated researcher. He has 140 publications on anesthesia, pain, internal medicine, and critical care journals/books, has edited three books and given 267 conferences in congresses and meetings of his specialty. He has been a member of various editorial committees in anesthesiology journals, and was chief editor of the journal Anestesia en México. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Anesthesia and Critical Care: Open Access. Dr. Whizar-Lugo is the founding director and current president of Anestesiología y Medicina del Dolor www.anestesiologia-dolor.org, a free medical educative program on the internet.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures 1**

Chapter 2 **Brain Monitored Propofol Ketamine for Elective**

**Cosmetic Surgery 35** Barry L. Friedberg

Gosman and Alicia Sigler

Shivakumar M. Channabasappa

Chapter 6 **Pain Management in Plastic Surgery 101**

Moreno-Guillen

Víctor M. Whizar-Lugo and Ana C. Cárdenas-Maytorena

Chapter 3 **Pediatric Anesthesia for Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate 55**

Chapter 4 **Anesthesia Management for Large-Volume Liposuction 71**

Cárdenas-Maytorena and Marcela Contreras-López

Chapter 5 **Regional Anesthesia for Urgent Reconstructive Surgery 91**

Agung Senapathi and Pontisomaya Parami

Chapter 7 **Perioperative Complications in Plastic Surgery 129**

Alyssa Brzenski, Ofelia Ham-Mancilla, Silvia Peña-Olvera, Amanda

Sergio Granados-Tinajero, Carlos Buenrostro-Vásquez, Cecilia

I Gusti Ngurah Mahaalit Aribawa, Made Wiryana, Tjokorda Gde

Víctor M. Whizar-Lugo, Jaime Campos-León and Alejandro
