DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2017.v05i03.009

Pages: 160-162

Schizophrenia is commonest psychiatric manifestation frequently encountered by anaesthesist in various surgeries . Risk is mainly due to uncooperative patient and antipsychotic drugs. These drugs potentiate the medical illnesses and have lots of interactions with anaesthetic drugs. In our case report we emphasized on perioperative anaesthetic management in a schizophrenic patient posted for cataract surgery.