IMPORTANCE Rhabdomyolysis is a known, but rare, complication of general anesthesia. To the authors' knowledge, it has never before been reported following an ocular surgery, and we could find no similar cases in the surgical literature following any brief surgical procedure. We believe this case to be unique in those regards and aim to raise awareness among ophthalmologists of this postoperativ...

Background The number of morbidly obese patients who have undergone bariatric surgery has been gradually increasing in Japan. These obese patients are often complicated with metabolic, cardiac, respiratory, and other diseases. The aim of this study was to analyze the perioperative clinical course in a retrospective cohort with respect to the utility of anesthesia management in order to prevent ...

To the Editor: We, too, have noticed the phenomenon described by Perron et al.1 after a bolus injection of dexamethasone 8 mg iv. Our strategy to prevent this is to administer the dexamethasone immediately after the induction of general anesthesia. However, this might limit the efficacy of dexamethasone to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). The article by Wang compares the admini...

THE article in this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY by O'Hara et aL1 provides a good opportunity to review different clinical study designs and statistical issues associated with analyzing data from randomized and nonrandomized comparative studies. Statistics are necessary to analyze clinical data because the response to intervention usually varies widely among patients.' Most biostatisticians favor th...

Purpose: To compare the results of lacrimal syringing performed in clinical practice and under general anesthesia, efficacy anesthesia before endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy dacryoscintigraphy.Methods: The study included 148 eyes 82 patients who underwent silicone tube intubation from August 2018 to April 2019. were examined with re‐examined anesthesia. Based on change syringing, assigned inco...

Have you ever had surgery? If yes, perhaps remember how talked to the hospital staff before operation, until everything suddenly became black? And when woke up later, operation was already finished, and felt as if been asleep? But were not asleep—you under anesthesia, a drug-induced state in which are aware of your surroundings, do feel any pain, cannot move or form memories. Did know that anes...

BACKGROUND Partial nephrectomy for small renal masses (SRM) may be useful for preserving renal function, but is technically more difficult than radical nephrectomy. Cryoablation may be performed under local anesthesia. The objective of the present study is to assess the safety and therapeutic efficacy of cryoablation with lipiodol marking for SRM. METHODS Cryoablation therapy was performed on...

background: calcium (ca+2) plays an important role in many biophysiological mechanisms .the present study was carried out to assess alterations in total serum calcium level before and after operations in consider to the type of anesthesia. materials and methods: this descriptive study was conducted on 74 women who candidate for gynecological abdominal operations during one year at al-zahra mate...