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The author provides an overview of the various postoperative therapeutic regimens for surgical patients recovering from anesthesia. Because anesthesia care begins preoperatively and continues well into the postoperative period, a thorough understanding of the altered pulmonary physiology caused by anesthesia, narcotics and surgery, as well as the appropriate implementation of postoperative resp...

The predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption were previously found to include preoperative pain, anxiety, age, type of surgery, and genotype, but remaining unclear was whether intraoperative factors could predict postoperative pain. In the present study, we investigated the time-course of fentanyl consumption using intravenous patient-controlled analgesia records from patients...

A 42-year-old man with neck squamous cell carcinoma underwent awake fiberoptic intubation and tumor resection under general anesthesia. He developed malignant hyperthermia several hours into the surgical procedure. This case highlights hyperthermia’s (MH) variable time course, pathognomonic signs, need for rapid diagnosis treatment. Early recognition treatment led to resolution of MH. Ongoing d...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the anesthesia course in our university comprises Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), in conjunction with portfolio and multiple-choice questions (MCQ). The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of different forms of anesthesia course assessment among 5(th) year medical students in our university, as well as study the influence of gende...

Anesthesia began in 1846, when an American dentist administered diethyl ether to a patient undergoing neck surgery [1]. Initially, anesthesia practice was limited to rendering patients unconscious and without pain or movement during surgery. Over the course of the next century, new knowledge, technology, and drugs enabled anesthesiologists to manage physiologic derangements caused by anesthetic...

A 34-month-old female patient who had a prior history of generalized tonic-clonic seizures had been diagnosed with the Lennox-Gastuat syndrome. She was scheduled for epiblepharon repairs in both lower lids under general anesthesia. Preoperatively, her tonic seizure was poorly controlled with antiepileptic drugs. General anesthesia with thiopental and isoflurane was provided and the intraoperati...

This course explores the considerations that the anesthesia provider has to be aware of, when caring for a patient with a mitochondrial myopathy. Even though these disorders are rare, these patients may also need surgical care, requiring that the anesthesia provider be informed of the best anesthesia options to consider. A narrative review of documented cases and their outcomes is used to gener...

A case is described of postoperative right hypoglossal neurapraxia after general anesthesia and interscalene block with endotracheal intubation for left total shoulder arthroplasty. Postoperative hypoglossal neurapraxia has been reported in cases, yet it remains a rare complication of anesthesia-related interventions. In this case report, postulated causes of hypoglossal neurapraxia are present...