Anesthesiology

[Comparison of different stylets used for intubation with the C-MAC D-Blade Videolaryngoscope: a randomized controlled study].

OBJECTIVE: The angle of the C-MAC D-Blade videolaryngoscope, which is used for difficult airway interventions, is not compatible with routinely used endotracheal tubes.

SLIDE: automatic spine level identification system using a deep convolutional neural network.

PURPOSE: Percutaneous spinal needle insertion procedures often require proper identification of the vertebral level to effectively and safely deliver analgesic agents. The current clinical method involves "blind" identification of the vertebral level through manual palpation of the spine, which has only 30% reported accuracy. Therefore, there is a need for better anatomical identification prior to...

Therapeutic indications and other use-case-driven updates in the drug ontology: anti-malarials, anti-hypertensives, opioid analgesics, and a large term request.

BACKGROUND: The Drug Ontology (DrOn) is an OWL2-based representation of drug products and their ingredients, mechanisms of action, strengths, and dose...

The use of multi-criteria decision making models in evaluating anesthesia method options in circumcision surgery.

BACKGROUND: Determining the most suitable anesthesia method for circumcision surgery plays a fundamental role in pediatric surgery. This study is aime...

Use of bladder volume measurement assessed with ultrasound to predict postoperative urinary retention.

OBJECTIVE: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a common complication after spinal anesthesia. Ultrasound (US) is a simple, non-invasive method t...

Surgical Site Infiltration for Abdominal Surgery: A Novel Neuroanatomical-based Approach.

BACKGROUND: Provision of optimal postoperative analgesia should facilitate postoperative ambulation and rehabilitation. An optimal multimodal analgesi...

Partial displacement of epidural catheter after patient position change: A case report.

Epidural catheter migration is a well-known cause of failed anesthesia and complications. One of the factors that affect catheter movement is when pat...

Comparison of ropivacaine with and without fentanyl vs bupivacaine with fentanyl for postoperative epidural analgesia in bilateral total knee replacement surgery.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: Pain after total knee replacement (TKR) interferes with early rehabilitation. Although the use of epidural bupivacaine in post-TKR p...

Feasibility of Anesthesia Maintenance With Sevoflurane During Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Pilot Pharmacokinetics Study.

OBJECTIVE: Adequate maintenance of hypnosis during anesthesia throughout surgery using sevoflurane alone was investigated. In addition, sevoflurane ph...

Short Term Analgesic Effects of 5% Dextrose Epidural Injections for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Hypertonic dextrose injection (prolotherapy) is reported to reduce pain including non-surgical chronic low back pain (CLBP), and subcutane...

Minimum effective fluid volume of colloid to prevent hypotension during caesarean section under spinal anesthesia using a prophylactic phenylephrine infusion: An up-down sequential allocation study.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to de termine the minimum effective fluid volume (MEFV) of hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 (HES) infused in a p...

Comparison of Intraabdominal and Trocar Site Local Anaesthetic Infiltration on Postoperative Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of local anaesthetic infiltration to trocar wounds and intraperitoneally on postoperative pain as ...

A case of central diabetes insipidus after ketamine infusion during an external to internal carotid artery bypass.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We report the first teenage case of ketamine-induced transient central diabetes insipidus.

Anesthetic approaches in carotid body tumor surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Carotid body tumors (CBT) are benign tumors that originate from neural non-chromaffin cells that are typically localized near carotid bifur...

Mandibular Reconstruction with Lateral Tibial Bone Graft: An Excellent Option for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

Autogenous bone grafts are the gold standard for reconstruction of atrophic jaws, pseudoarthroses, alveolar clefts, orthognathic surgery, mandibular d...

Robotic Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Single-Surgeon Initial Experience.

Minimally invasive surgery has gained increasing acceptance over the last few years, which has expanded to pancreaticoduodenectomy. Laparoscopic pancr...

Physicochemical stability of oxycodone-ketamine solutions in polypropylene syringe and polyvinyl chloride bag for patient-controlled analgesia use.

OBJECTIVES: The study evaluated the stability of three combinations of oxycodone and ketamine diluted in normal saline (NS) after storage for 7 days a...

Does an interaction exist between ketamine hydrochloride and Becton Dickinson syringes?

INTRODUCTION: An international alert from Becton Dickinson (BD) has noted the possibility of interaction between several molecules and some syringes. ...

Effects of airway evaluation parameters on the laryngeal view grade in mandibular prognathism and retrognathism patients.

BACKGROUND: Failure to maintain a patent airway can result in brain damage or death. In patients with mandibular prognathism or retrognathism, intubat...

Brief isoflurane anaesthesia affects differential gene expression, gene ontology and gene networks in rat brain.

Much is still unknown about the mechanisms of effects of even brief anaesthesia on the brain and previous studies have simply compared differential ex...