Precautions in the anesthetic management of a patient with Creutzfield-Jacob disease

Abstract

Creutzfield-Jacob Disease (CJD) (subacute spongiform encephalopathy) is a rare, noninflammatory disease of the central nervous system. We describe our anesthetic experience in a patient with CJD and discuss precautions in managing patients with this diagnosis and precautions in handling the equipment used to anesthetize them.