Background The number of patients with Alzheimer's disease is growing worldwide, and the proportion of patients requiring dental treatment under general anesthesia increases with increasing severity of the disease. However, outpatient anesthesia management for these patients involves great risks, as most patients with Alzheimer's disease are old and may show reduced cardiopulmonary functions an...

conclusions the results of the current study suggested that spinal anesthesia plus intravenous patient-controlled analgesia have the most favorable cardiac effects regarding postoperative levels of pro-bnp. results there was no difference between three groups for basic characteristics and variables and baseline pro-bnp levels; however, postoperative pro-bnp levels in groups a, b, and c were res...

Intravenous regional anesthesia was used in an adult dog as part of a balanced approach to general anesthesia for amputation of the 4th digit of its right hind limb. It allowed the concentration of isoflurane to be reduced to 0.5%. Resume Anesthesie regionale intraveineuse (bloc de Bier) chez un chien. Une anesthesie regionale intraveineuse a ete utilisee chez un chien adulte comme composante d...

The authors are developing a closed-loop system for intravenous anesthesia in human. Using published pharmacokinetic data for the intravenous anesthetic agent, propofol, they have generated a population of “virtual patients” and simulated their response to induction and maintenance of intravenous anesthesia using a feedback system based on an electroencephalogram derivative. Their simulations s...