Anesthesiology

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 physiotherapy and pharmacological treatment.

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 postoperative analgesia. Magnesium sulfate (MgSO) and ketamine block peripheral nociception mediated via N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.

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 procedure for benign prostatic obstruction. This approach ...

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 criticised for their limited performance. We hypothesised ...

Deep visual nerve tracking in ultrasound images.

Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (UGRA) becomes a standard procedure in surgical operations and pain management, offers the advantages of nerve l...

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 (SEA) remains unacceptably high despite diagnostic a...

Spectral signatures of serotonergic psychedelics and glutamatergic dissociatives.

Classic serotonergic psychedelics are remarkable for their capacity to induce reversible alterations in consciousness of the self and the surroundings...

A Radical Proposition: Opioid-sparing Prostatectomy.

Radical prostatectomy has largely become a procedure requiring a single day in the hospital with improving convalescence. Pre-operative counseling on ...

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 postoperative patient's health. Commercially available electr...

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 different anesthetic states of the brain. It has been w...

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) may benefit the viability assessment of transforami...

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 abscess (SEA) are limited. Given the potential for de...

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 recurrent neural network (CNN-RNN) for the detection...

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 Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) sur...

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 consumption, avoiding intraoperative awareness an...

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 decision making problems in health care domains. To...

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

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) performed with the extraperitoneal (EP) technique (RASP-EP) minimizes the risk of bowel injury, particular...

An artificial neural network model for prediction of hypoxemia during sedation for gastrointestinal endoscopy.

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to assess clinical predictors of hypoxemia and develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model for prediction of h...

Comparison of long-term outcomes of laparoscopic and robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

In this study, we compared the long-term oncological and functional outcomes of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) and robot-assisted laparoscopic...

Retrospective investigation about anesthetic management of biliary atresia in children: laparoscopic versus conventional Kasai portoenterostomy.

PURPOSE: Biliary atresia can be fatal if surgery is not performed early. Laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy was recently introduced in our hospital. ...