Anesthesiology News & Articles

1 The Effect of Selenium Therapy on Mortality in Patients With Sepsis Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article    Clinical Article

2 Acute-Phase Proteins and Mortality in Status Epilepticus: A 5-Year Observational Cohort Study Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

3 Yield of Routine Provocative Cardiac Testing Among Patients in an Emergency Department–Based Chest Pain Unit: Yield of Stress Testing in Emergency Department Observation Units JAMA Internal Medicine, May 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Clinical Article

4 Physical Therapy for the Critically Ill in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

5 Lidocaine use in ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block: what is the minimum effective anaesthetic concentration (MEAC90)? British Journal of Anesthesia, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

6 Time course of haemostatic effects of fibrinogen concentrate administration in aortic surgery British Journal of Anesthesia, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

7 Doppler echocardiography in shocked patients Current Opinion in Critical Care, May 21, 2013    Review Article

8 Clinical use of lactate monitoring in critically ill patients Full Text Annals of Intensive Care, May 21, 2013

9 Is there a role for adrenaline during cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Current Opinion in Critical Care, May 21, 2013    Review Article

10 Utilization Patterns and Outcomes Associated With Central Venous Catheter in Septic Shock: A Population-Based Study Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

11 Determination of Burn Patient Outcome by Large-Scale Quantitative Discovery Proteomics Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

12 Management of postcardiac arrest myocardial dysfunction Current Opinion in Critical Care, May 21, 2013    Review Article

13 Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

14 Reducing Deep Sedation and Delirium in Acute Lung Injury Patients: A Quality Improvement Project Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

15 Prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)-use in UK paediatric patients: A systematic review of surveys Complementary Therapies in Medicine, May 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

16 Minimally invasive surgery in endometrial cancer: recent updates Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

17 Impact of propofol on mid-latency auditory-evoked potentials in children British Journal of Anesthesia, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

18 Risk factors and successful interventions for cricket-related low back pain: a systematic review British Journal of Sports Medicine, May 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Clinical Article

19 Characteristics of pain in hospitalized medical patients, surgical patients, and outpatients attending a pain management centre British Journal of Anesthesia, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

20 Lactate and Venoarterial Carbon Dioxide Difference/Arterial-Venous Oxygen Difference Ratio, but Not Central Venous Oxygen Saturation, Predict Increase in Oxygen Consumption in Fluid Responders Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

1 I.V. and perineural dexamethasone are equivalent in increasing the analgesic duration of a single-shot interscalene block with ropivacaine for shoulder surgery: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study British Journal of Anesthesia, April 17, 2013

2 Tracheostomy in the critically ill: the myth of dead space Anesthesia and Intensive Care, March 26, 2013

3 Anesthetic Management of the Patient With Low Ejection Fraction American Journal of Therapeutics, April 8, 2013    Review Article

4 Antifibrinolytics in cardiac surgery Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, April 5, 2013    Free full text

5 Fluid Resuscitation in Septic Shock: The Effect of Increasing Fluid Balance on Mortality Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, March 4, 2013    Review Article

6 Recovery after total intravenous general anaesthesia or spinal anaesthesia for total knee arthroplasty: a randomized trial British Journal of Anesthesia, April 15, 2013
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7 Oral choline supplementation for postoperative pain British Journal of Anesthesia, April 9, 2013

8 Pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest in the postanesthesia care unit: analysis of data from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry Paediatric Anaesthesia, April 4, 2013    Clinical Guideline

9 Video-laryngoscopy: another tool for difficult intubation or a new paradigm in airway management? Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, February 12, 2013

10 Perioperative glucocorticoids in hip and knee surgery - benefit vs. harm? A review of randomized clinical trials Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, April 16, 2013    Review Article

11 Preoperative risk factors in 10 418 patients with prior myocardial infarction and 5241 patients with prior unstable angina undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery British Journal of Anesthesia, April 18, 2013

12 Feasibility and safety of xenon compared with sevoflurane anaesthesia in coronary surgical patients: a randomized controlled pilot study British Journal of Anesthesia, April 16, 2013

13 Effect of levosimendan on hemodynamic changes in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: A randomized controlled study Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, April 1, 2013    Free full text

14 Effectiveness of non-cardiac preoperative testing in non-cardiac elective surgery: a systematic review British Journal of Anesthesia, April 15, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

15 Does Low-dose Droperidol Increase the Risk of Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia or Death in the Surgical Patient? Anesthesiology, January 25, 2013

16 Oxcarbazepine for neuropathic pain Cochrane Reviews, April 2, 2013    Review Article

17 Retrograde Light-guided Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation: Clinical Practice and Comparison with Conventional Direct Laryngoscopy Anesthesiology, April 24, 2013

18 Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Anesthesiology Clinics, April 4, 2013

19 Clinical characteristics, sepsis interventions and outcomes in the obese patients with septic shock: an international multicenter cohort study Critical Care, April 18, 2013

20 Pediatric Status Asthmaticus Critical Care Clinics, April 8, 2013    Review Article