Anesthesiology News & Articles

981 Ultrasound Estimates for Midline Epidural Punctures in the Obese Parturient: Paramedian Sagittal Oblique Is Comparable to Transverse Median Plane Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

982 The Influence of Prone Positioning on the Accuracy of Calibrated and Uncalibrated Pulse Contour-Derived Cardiac Index Measurements Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

983 Assessment of Intraoperative Awareness with Explicit Recall: A Comparison of 2 Methods Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

984 General Anesthesia with Sevoflurane Decreases Myocardial Blood Volume and Hyperemic Blood Flow in Healthy Humans Anesthesia & Analgesia, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

985 Evaluation of distal radial artery cross-sectional internal diameter in pediatric patients using ultrasound Paediatric Anaesthesia, March 22, 2013

986 Hyperosmolarity Attenuates TNF-α Mediated Proinflammatory Activation of Human Pulmonary Microvascular Endothelial Cells Shock, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

987 Establishing the Diagnosis of Inverted Stress Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Cardiac Arrest during General Anesthesia: A Potential Role of Myocardial Strain Echocardiography, March 22, 2013

988 The ECMO PK Project: an incremental research approach to advance understanding of the pharmacokinetic alterations and improve patient outcomes during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Full Text BMC Anesthesiology, March 22, 2013    Clinical Article

989 Sepsis Therapy Pioneered by Henry Ford Endorsed as National Quality Benchmark Henry Ford Health System, March 22, 2013

990 Goal-directed therapy in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis British Journal of Anesthesia, March 21, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

991 Local infiltration analgesia for total knee arthroplasty: should ketorolac be added? British Journal of Anesthesia, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

992 Preoperative Stroke and Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Anesthesiology, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

993 Metabolomics as a Novel Approach for Early Diagnosis of Pediatric Septic Shock and its Mortality American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

994 Randomized controlled trial of goal-directed haemodynamic treatment in patients with proximal femoral fracture British Journal of Anesthesia, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

995 Effect on Pain Relief and Inflammatory Response Following Addition of Tenoxicam to Intravenous Patient-Controlled Morphine Analgesia: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Study in Patients Undergoing Spine Fusion Surgery Pain Medicine, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

996 Factors Associated with Favorable Response to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy among Patients Presenting with Iatrogenic Cerebral Arterial Gas Embolism Neurocritical Care , March 21, 2013    Review Article

997 Low back pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Clinical characteristics and impact of low back pain on functional ability and health related quality of life Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

998 Major complications related to epidural analgesia in children: a 15-year audit of 3,152 epidurals Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

999 Pain at insertion of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system in nulligravida and parous women with and without cesarean section Contraception, March 21, 2013    Clinical Article

1000 Myomectomy during cesarean delivery International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, March 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