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
Dr Anton Krige
Consultant anaesthetist and Intensivist at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Honourary Professor with the local medical school
Dr Charles Shepherd
Medical adviser to the ME Association
Helen Baxter
Advocacy worker for the 25% ME group