Anesthesia & Analgesia: June 2016 – Volume 122 – Issue 6 – p 1856–1865 AUTHORS: Kulcke, Axel PhD et al BACKGROUND: Pulse spectroscopy is a new noninvasive technology involving hundreds of wavelengths of visible and infrared light, enabling the simultaneous quantitation of multiple types of normal and dysfunctional hemoglobin. We evaluated the accuracy of a […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Kim, Minjae MD, MS et al BACKGROUND: Perioperative risk stratification is often performed using individual risk factors without consideration of the syndemic of these risk factors. We used latent class analysis (LCA) to identify the classes of comorbidities and risk factors associated with perioperative mortality in patients presenting […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Van Waes, Judith A. R. MD et al BACKGROUND: To evaluate the role of routine troponin surveillance in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery, unblinded screening with cardiac consultation per protocol was implemented at a tertiary care center. In this study, we evaluated 1-year mortality, causes of death, and […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: Post Author Corrections: April 22, 2016 AUTHORS: Patel, Ruchira MBBS et al BACKGROUND: The transcatheter electric stimulation test (Tsui test) can be performed at the bedside to confirm the correct placement of a wire-reinforced epidural catheter within the epidural space. The most commonly observed motor response with a uniport epidural catheter placed […]
Read MoreAnesthesia & Analgesia: June 2016 – Volume 122 – Issue 6 – p 2007–2016 AUTHORS: Hunt, Tristan D. BS et al BACKGROUND: The safety of anesthetic care provided during childbirth has improved during the past 2 decades in the United States, with a marked decrease in the rate of anesthesia-related adverse events (ARAEs). To date, […]
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