Anesthesiology

Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjuvant to Bupivacaine in Ultrasound-Guided Transverse Abdominis plane Block for Laparoscopic appendicectomy: A Randomised Controlled Study.

OBJECTIVE: Dexmedetomidine is an alpha 2-adrenergic agonist that prolongs analgesia as an adjuvant w...

Pharmacologically informed machine learning approach for identifying pathological states of unconsciousness via resting-state fMRI.

Determining the level of consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) remains cha...

Effect of dexmedetomidine sedation on swallowing reflex: A pilot study.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Swallowing reflex depression during dental treatment or oral surgery may cause w...

Physicochemical stability of an admixture of lidocaine and ketamine in polypropylene syringe used in opioid-free anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVES: Opioid-free anaesthesia is a treatment strategy of pain management based on the use of d...

Randomised Comparison between the Efficacy of Two Doses of Nebulised Dexmedetomidine for Premedication in Paediatric Patients.

OBJECTIVE: Nebulised dexmedetomidine can be an easy alternative for preoperative sedation in paediat...

An automated machine learning-based model predicts postoperative mortality using readily-extractable preoperative electronic health record data.

BACKGROUND: Rapid, preoperative identification of patients with the highest risk for medical complic...

Outpatient Anesthesia Facilitates Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Early Stage Lung Cancer Patients With Advanced Cognitive Impairments.

PURPOSE: To report on the use of outpatient anesthesia (OPA) facilitating delivery of stereotactic b...

Palonosetron Pretreatment is not as Effective as Lignocaine for Attenuation of Pain on Injection of Propofol.

OBJECTIVE: 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are known to possess local anesthetic properties and are commo...

Prediction of complication related death after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer with machine learning methodology.

To create a pre-operatively usable tool to identify patients at high risk of early death (within 90...

Machine learning based prediction of perioperative blood loss in orthognathic surgery.

The aim of this study was to evaluate, if and with what accuracy perioperative blood loss can be cal...

Perioperative intelligence: applications of artificial intelligence in perioperative medicine.

Convolutional neural networks for reconstruction of undersampled optical projection tomography data applied to in vivo imaging of zebrafish.

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a 3D mesoscopic imaging modality that can utilize absorption ...

The future of endoscopy: Advances in endoscopic image innovations.

The latest state of the art technological innovations have led to a palpable progression in endoscop...

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...

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...

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...

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...