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Daniela Smith, MD Staff Anesthesiologist Laurel Regional Hospital Laurel, Maryland Douglas G. Martz, MD Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a rare cardiac channelopathy that describes patients with a structurally normal heart at risk for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death.1 First identified in 1992, […]
Read MoreDepartment of Profundity A wise person once observed that there are three types of learning. The most problematic type is to go out in the world and make a mistake, but not learn from this experience and make it again. This is not very smart. The second type is to make a mistake but learn […]
Read MoreIn TKA, but superiority does not linger A meta-analysis of local infiltration analgesia (LIA) has shed more light on its efficacy and utility in the postoperative setting. A multicenter research team concluded that although LIA reduces short-term pain compared with femoral nerve block, this effect is reversed by the first postoperative day. “We know local […]
Read MoreJ Neurosurg Spine. 2015 Oct 13:1-7. Authors: Lu CH et al OBJECT Anesthesia techniques can contribute to the reduction of anesthesia-controlled time and may therefore improve operating room efficiency. However, little is known about the difference in anesthesia-controlled time between propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) and desflurane (DES) anesthesia techniques for prolonged lumbar spine surgery under […]
Read MoreIsocapnia can be maintained during hyperventilation by administering carbon dioxide (CO2) through a modern anesthesia circuit without disconnecting it, a study has found. The study, performed by a team of anesthesiologists from the Institute for Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, at Gothenburg University in Sweden, used a mechanical lung model set to 50 mL/cm H2O and […]
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