Intracarotid Etomidate
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Etomidate speech and memory test (eSAM): a new drug and improved intracarotid procedure.
BACKGROUND The intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) is an important part of comprehensive investigation of patients who are candidates for surgical treatment of epilepsy. Owing to repeated and lengthy shortages of amobarbital, causing delays in elective surgery, attempts have been made to find a suitable alternative anesthetic. The authors report their experience using etomidate, a widely u...
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BACKGROUND The Wada procedure (the intracarotid amobarbital procedure) has been used widely to evaluate the hemispheric dominance of language and memory before temporal lobe surgery in patients with medically refractory seizures. Because of repeated shortage of sodium amobarbital, attempts have been made to find a suitable alternative to sodium amobarbital. The aim of our study was to review ou...
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RATIONALE Our goal was to determine the frequency of repeated intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT) at our center and to estimate the retest reliability of the IAT for both language and memory lateralization. METHODS A total of 1,249 consecutive IATs on 1,190 patients were retrospectively reviewed for repeat tests. RESULTS In 4% of patients the IAT was repeated in order to deliver satisfactor...
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Editor—We wish to report a case of etomidate reverting ventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm. Although there have been several case reports and studies demonstrating the antiarrhythmic affects of propofol this has not been true of etomidate. A 59-yr-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2 h history of central chest pain radiating to the left arm and palpitations. He denied any ...
متن کاملEtomidate as an antiarrhythmic
Editor—We wish to report a case of etomidate reverting ventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm. Although there have been several case reports and studies demonstrating the antiarrhythmic affects of propofol this has not been true of etomidate. A 59-yr-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2 h history of central chest pain radiating to the left arm and palpitations. He denied any ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e3181a36fed