How would you initiate her care and what monitoring would you use?
This is what we did:
We discussed with the patient the following anesthetic options: regional anesthesia with MAC, general anesthesia with regional anesthesia, general anesthesia alone. The patient preferred to proceed with the same anesthetic technique she had received with her prior surgery: regional anesthesia with MAC. We planned on using standard ASA monitors during induction, maintenance, and emergence from anesthesia.