A 65-year-old female, morbidly obese, smoker (one pack per day for 35 years), with a history of hypertension (HTN), coronary artery disease (CAD), and diabetes mellitus treated with insulin, underwent an uneventful coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The patient was taken, sedated and intubated, to the intensive care unit (ICU), with dopamine at 5 μg/kg/min and insulin 2 IU/h as continuous infusions. After 3 hours in the ICU, the patient suddenly became tachycardic, and her blood pressure decreased dramatically. She had no response to a higher dose of dopamine and norepinephrine infusion. The surgical fellow on call in the ICU performed an emergent needle pericardial aspiration, which removed 100 cc of fresh blood. The patient was taken emergently to the operating room (OR) on a wide-opened epinephrine drip. After a thoracotomy and pericardiocentesis, the patient’s hemodynamic status improved significantly. How would you have prepared this patient for surgery? What would be your choice of induction drugs, and why?