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Surgeons pack donated organs on ice while racing them to transplant patients but it may be time for a warmer approach. British researchers said Wednesday that keeping at least some livers at body temperature instead may work better. The livers keep functioning until they’re transplanted thanks to a machine that pumps them full of blood […]
Read MoreMaintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a rare but potentially fatal adverse reaction to general anesthesia, may not be cost-beneficial in hospital maternity units where the incidence of the reaction is low, according to a new paper published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, […]
Read MoreTwo years ago, Dr. Daniel Cole’s 85-year-old father had heart bypass surgery. He hasn’t been quite the same since. “He forgets things and will ask you the same thing several times,” said Cole, a professor of clinical anesthesiology at UCLA and a past president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. “He never got back to […]
Read MoreAuthors: Enrico M. Camporesi, M.D. et al Anesthesia Research Institute & University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States Introduction: Opioids produce many undesirable side effects such as respiratory depression, sedation, nausea/vomiting, constipation, and ileus. Short-acting opioid used during anesthesia may lead to acute opioid-induced tolerance and hyperalgesia [1]. Furthermore, opioid addiction and overdosing are recognized […]
Read MoreIntraoperative infusions of esmolol reduced intraoperative opioid use, PACU opioid use and PACU pain scores, and may be effective as part of a multimodal analgesic regimen in certain patient populations. “Esmolol can obviously decrease risk for conditions like opioid-induced hyperalgesia, and perhaps should be used for specific subsets of patients, such as those undergoing ambulatory […]
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