Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 402–410 AUTHORS: Moaveni, Daria M. MD et al Over the past 40 years, the success of organ transplantation has increased such that female solid organ transplant recipients are able to conceive and carry pregnancies successfully to term. Anesthesiologists are faced with the […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 396–401 AUTHORS: Frölich, Michael A. MD et al BACKGROUND: Hormonal action has been implicated as a possible mechanism for pregnancy-induced analgesia. Previous investigators have reported an increase in heat pain tolerance during labor compared with nonpregnant controls and postulated it was because […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 371–381 AUTHORS: Xu, Jing-Yuan MD et al BACKGROUND: Whether early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) improves outcome in severe sepsis and septic shock remains unclear. We performed a meta-analysis of existing clinical trials to examine whether EGDT improved outcome in the resuscitation of adult […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: August 2016 – Volume 123 – Issue 2 – p 346–356 AUTHORS: Alian, Aymen A. MD et al BACKGROUND: Scoliosis surgery is often associated with substantial blood loss, requiring fluid resuscitation and blood transfusions. In adults, dynamic preload indices have been shown to be more reliable for guiding fluid resuscitation, but these […]
Read MoreAuthors: Eric C. Cheon, M.D. et al Anesthesiology published on September 15, 2016. Background: To date, the independent predictors and outcomes of unplanned postoperative intubation (UPI) in pediatric patients after noncardiac surgery are yet to be characterized. The authors aimed to identify the incidence and predictors of this event and evaluated the effect of this event on […]
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