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Author: Tony Mira F1rstNews The anticipation is palpable. It’s the early 1970s and you’ve just paid a whopping $7 to hear the Who, live and in concert. The hall is full. The audience is cranked and ready to rock; but before Roger Daltrey can come on stage to sing Pinball Wizard and assure you that We […]
Read MoreDG Journal Club AUTHORS: Sujung Park, Ji-Ho Kim et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2021 May BACKGROUND Although a neuromuscular blocking agent during induction of anesthesia is the standard of care in adults, some pediatric anaesthesiologists remain concerned about their use for several reasons. Therefore, propofol and short-acting opioids with a moderate concentration of sevoflurane have been […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: Nasr, Viviane G. MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2021 BACKGROUND: The association between race and perioperative outcomes has been evaluated in adult cardiac surgical and in healthy pediatric patients but has not been evaluated in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) presenting for noncardiac procedures. This study compares the incidence of the primary […]
Read MoreDG Alert Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation yields impressive reductions in pain scores and opioid use during the first week after common orthopaedic surgery procedures, according to a study published online first in the journal Anesthesiology. The benefits of postoperative nerve stimulation were “much greater than what we had anticipated, concurrently reducing pain scores by more than […]
Read MoreAUTHORS: McGuigan, Steven MBChB et al Anesthesia & Analgesia: May 2021 BACKGROUND: Depth-of-anesthesia monitoring is often utilized for patients receiving xenon anesthesia. Processed electroencephalogram (EEG) depth-of-anesthesia monitoring relies to a significant extent on frequency domain analysis of the frontal EEG, and there is evidence that the spectral features observed under anesthesia vary significantly between anesthetic agents. […]
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