Recent advances in telemedicine and robotically assisted telesurgery may offer advanced surgical care for the geographically remote patient. Similar advances in tele-anesthesia will be necessary to optimize perioperative care for these patients. Although many preliminary investigations into tele-anesthesia are underway, none involves remote performance of anesthesia-related procedures. Here we ...

Signa Vitae is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, which currently indexed in SCIE, scopus, etc. It covers many aspects of adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, anesthesia emergency medicine

OBJECTIVE We used a large database of prospectively collected data on pediatric sedation/anesthesia outside the operating room provided by a wide range of pediatric specialists to delineate the nature and frequency of adverse events associated with propofol-based sedation/anesthesia care. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were collected by the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium, a collaborative g...

BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS General anesthesia is used for laparoscopic enteral access because pneumoperitoneum requires relaxation of the abdominal muscles. We wanted to determine whether these procedures could be performed with similar results and cost under local anesthesia. DESIGN Randomized controlled study with 30-day follow-up including a cost-benefit analysis. SETTING University-affil...

conclusions both protocols provide excellent anesthesia, but patients receiving sufentnail had more stable anesthesia and less postoperative pain. objectives we planned to compare two clinical protocols for tiva with propofol, and either sufentanil or alfentanil in regards to postoperative pain, hemodynamic stability during the case and time for emergence from anesthesia. patinets and methods t...

A new and very simple scoring system for recording post-anaesthetic recovery is described. When numerical values are assigned to factors indicating recovery progress or lack of it is obvious. The records may have medico-legal value. It can be incorporated into the Recovery Room Record.

results seventy-five patients completed the study. compared to saline, patients who received 1 and 5 mg/kg of aminophylline demonstrated decreased extubation times (mean ± sd) (12.26 ± 7.33 vs. 11.15 ± 8.62 and 10.4 ± 4.78 min, respectively, p = 0.001) with higher bis values (p = 0.001). however, the recovery and discharge times from the pacu were no different between the aminophylline and sali...