Our preoperative deliberations focused on options for vascular access (peripheral versus central; standard peripheral IV versus rapid infusion catheter; multilumen central venous access versus large-bore introducer), blood pressure monitoring (noninvasive versus intraarterial; radial versus femoral arterial), anaesthetic approach (general versus spinal versus epidural anaesthesia), neuraxial anaesthetic technique (single injection versus continuous administration of local anaesthetic), blood management (type of blood products; intraoperative cell salvage), and coagulation (
antifibrinolysis).