Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the time course growth in general Google-reflected information on drugs used for anesthesia. As a contrast changes we academic PubMed-reflected information. Methods: General anesthetics assessed by counting number Google Web pages. Academic articles medico-biological journals covered PubMed database (The National Library Medicine). ratio pages (G/...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate whether patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) developed unexpected perioperative complications. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Academic medical center. MEASUREMENTS The records of 13 patients with POTS, who underwent surgical procedures during general anesthesia, were studied. Details of disease management, anesthetic indu...

Aortic dissection is a rare and potentially lethal complication of pregnancy. After an extensive review of the currently available medical journal databases, a lack of information on aortic dissection in parturients was identified within the US anesthesia literature. A 33-week parturient with chronic hypertension was admitted to an urban medical center with severe epigastric and chest pain. Dur...

BACKGROUND Effects of hypothermia on arterial baroreflex function during, and on its recovery after, general anesthesia were examined in humans. METHODS Twenty healthy volunteers were randomly assigned to a normothermic group (n = 10 each, active forced-air warming) or to a hypothermic group (no active warming) during anesthesia. Measurements of R-R intervals and systolic blood pressure were ...

conclusions the results of this study demonstrated that spinal anesthesia increased the chance of fertilization success. results there was no difference between the two groups regarding demographic variables. 15 of 100 patients (15%) in the general anesthesia group and 27 of 100 patients (27%) in the spinal anesthesia group had successful pregnancy after ivf; so, spinal anesthesia increased sig...

Manipulation under anesthesia has been used to speed up the recovery of frozen shoulder (FS), which is said to be a self-limiting disease. This is a randomized prospective clinical trial performed in a tertiary care hospital. Thirty-one patients with idiopathic unilateral frozen shoulder underwent suprascapular nerve block and intraarticular local anesthesia with Methyl prednisolone acetate fol...

Background. Hip and knee arthroplasty (HKA) is a common surgical procedure. One of the diseases that negatively affect results these operations diabetes. The aim study: to determine effectiveness safety combined multimodal low-opioid anesthesia with dexmedetomidine sedation in patients undergoing HKA concomitant diabetes mellitus. Materials methods. In total, study included 45 who underwent HKA...

PURPOSE To describe the anesthetic management of a patient with Jansky-Bielschowsky disease (JBD), the late infantile form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, characterized by dementia, severe and drug resistant grand mal, myoclonic seizures, and blindness. CLINICAL FEATURES A 14-yr-old girl with JBD was scheduled for resection of a gingival tumour and an infected sinus in the sacral area. Her...

Intracranial subdural hematoma following spinal anesthesia is an infrequent occurrence in the obstetric population. Nevertheless, it is a potentially life-threatening complication. In the majority of the cases, the first clinical symptom associated with intracranial subdural bleeding is severe headache, but the clinical course may have different presentations. In this report, we describe the ca...

OVERVIEW The Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia Revised Edition 2013 (the guidelines) were prepared by the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS), which reserves the right to determine their publication and distribution. Because the guidelines are subject to revision, updated versions are published annually. The Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia Revised Edition 2013 supersedes a...