AUTHORS: Zhang, Chengmi MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2021 – Volume 133 – Issue 5 – p 1197-1205 BACKGROUND: The optimal positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) to prevent postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) remains unclear. Recent evidence showed that driving pressure was closely related to PPCs. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that an […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Lewis, Choy MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2021 – Volume 133 – Issue 5 – p 1187-1196 BACKGROUND: Asymptomatic brain ischemic injury detected with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is reported in more than one-half of patients after cardiac surgery. There are conflicting findings on whether DWI-detected covert stroke is associated with neurocognitive […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Wanat-Hawthorne, Alycia MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2021 – Volume 133 – Issue 5 – p 1180-1186 BACKGROUND: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune-mediated adverse reaction to heparin. Patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) are routinely anticoagulated with heparin before the initiation of bypass. Heparin is contraindicated, however, in patients with […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Miyoshi, Hirotsugu MD, PhD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2021 – Volume 133 – Issue 5 – p 1107-1115 BACKGROUND: We investigated the relationship between the loaded pressure and flow rate in various catheters and the entire infusion line including the catheters, in several infusion solutions and packed red blood cells. METHODS: We […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Xu, Daniel A. BS et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: November 2021 – Volume 133 – Issue 5 – p 1140-1151 BACKGROUND: Parkinson disease is a chronic and progressive movement disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). The causes of Parkinson disease are not clear but may involve […]
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