Anesthesia and surgical procedures in swine.

Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgical Procedures

As thoracic surgery evolved, anesthesia evolved in parallel, allowing even the most compli‐ cated surgical procedures to be performed relatively safely. This co-evolution mirrors the close association of the thoracic surgeon and anesthesiologist when caring for their patients. This unique association is predicated on the nature of thoracic procedures, where the surgeon and anesthesiologist shar...

Usefulness of Measuring QT Dispersion for Anesthesia and Surgical Procedures

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a useful monitoring method during anesthesia. Among the numerous ECG parameters, QT dispersion (QTd) is an indicator of instability during ventricle repolarization. According to previous reports, an increase of QTd may be occurred any patients with sympathetic instability. However, almost all such noncardiac patients have a physical status of 1 or 2 according to the...

Evaluating Blood Requests and Transfusion Practice in Major Surgical Procedures

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

Awake anesthesia: is it valid for all thoracic surgical procedures?

I read with interest the article titled ‘Awake anaesthesia for major thoracic surgical procedures: an observational study’ [1], but I have some comments about it. As the authors mentioned that when ‘the chest wall was opened, spontaneous collapse of the lung occurred.’ This is due to the effect of external pressure with the negative intrathoracic pressure. I agree with that but want to ask abou...

Anesthesia in tracheo-bronchial procedures.