Anesthesiology

Re: Giuseppe Simone, Umberto Anceschi, Gabriele Tuderti, et al. Robot-assisted Partial Adrenalectomy for the Treatment of Conn's Syndrome: Surgical Technique, and Perioperative and Functional Outcomes. Eur Urol 2019;75:811-6.

Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Caudal Epidural Calcitonin for Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.

CONTEXT: Pain resulting from failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is generally resistant to physiothe...

Perioperative mortality and morbidity of outpatient versus inpatient robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: A propensity matched analysis.

OBJECTIVES: To compare the early (≤30 days) postoperative mortality and morbidity in patients who un...

Comparison of Magnesium Sulfate and Ketamine with Ropivacaine in Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Supraclavicular brachial plexus block offers good operating conditions with limited post...

Multicenter experience with photoselective vaporization of the prostate on men taking novel oral anticoagulants.

OBJECTIVE: Photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) is a widely performed surgical procedur...

Perioperative and oncological outcomes of robot-assisted radical cystectomy in octogenarians.

Novel drug-independent sedation level estimation based on machine learning of quantitative frontal electroencephalogram features in healthy volunteers.

BACKGROUND: Sedation indicators based on a single quantitative EEG (QEEG) feature have been criticis...

Re: The Learning Curve for Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: Impact of Surgical Experience on Perioperative Outcomes.

Deep visual nerve tracking in ultrasound images.

Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (UGRA) becomes a standard procedure in surgical operations and...

Development of machine learning algorithms for prediction of mortality in spinal epidural abscess.

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: In-hospital and short-term mortality in patients with spinal epidural abscess (S...

Spectral signatures of serotonergic psychedelics and glutamatergic dissociatives.

Classic serotonergic psychedelics are remarkable for their capacity to induce reversible alterations...

A Radical Proposition: Opioid-sparing Prostatectomy.

Radical prostatectomy has largely become a procedure requiring a single day in the hospital with imp...

Design and Implementation of a Machine Learning Based EEG Processor for Accurate Estimation of Depth of Anesthesia.

Accurate monitoring of the depth of anesthesia (DoA) is essential for intraoperative and postoperati...

Use of Multiple EEG Features and Artificial Neural Network to Monitor the Depth of Anesthesia.

The electroencephalogram (EEG) can reflect brain activity and contains abundant information of diffe...

Deep Learning-Based Automatic Segmentation of Lumbosacral Nerves on CT for Spinal Intervention: A Translational Study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: 3D reconstruction of a targeted area ("safe" triangle and Kambin triangle) m...

Development of a machine learning algorithm for prediction of failure of nonoperative management in spinal epidural abscess.

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Data regarding risk of failure of nonoperative management in spinal epidural abs...

Precise diagnosis of intracranial hemorrhage and subtypes using a three-dimensional joint convolutional and recurrent neural network.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance of a novel three-dimensional (3D) joint convolutional and re...

Accuracy of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Universal Surgical Risk Calculator in Predicting Complications Following Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy at a National Comprehensive Cancer Center.

There is paucity of literature about the validation of the American College of Surgeons National Su...

Monitoring the level of hypnosis using a hierarchical SVM system.

Monitoring level of hypnosis is a major ongoing challenge for anesthetists to reduce anesthetic drug...

Inverse reinforcement learning for intelligent mechanical ventilation and sedative dosing in intensive care units.

BACKGROUND: Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising technique to solve complex sequential d...

Robot-Assisted Simple Prostatectomy: Illustration of a Simplified Extraperitoneal Transcapsular Technique.

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) performed with the extraperitoneal (EP) technique (RASP-...