ALLMedicine™ General Anesthesia Center

Jul 31st, 2021 - The bispectral index (BIS) is the most widely used algorithm for measuring anesthetic depth. The BIS has been demonstrated as inaccurate when neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBDs) are used. Compared with BIS, phase lag entropy (PLE), which measures...

Jul 31st, 2021 - Persistent postsurgical pain after total knee arthroplasty is a common problem and a major reason for patient dissatisfaction. This secondary analysis aimed to investigate the effects of anesthesia (spinal vs. general) and tourniquet use on persis...

Jul 30th, 2021 - Multimodal general anesthesia based on modified intercostal nerve block (MINB) has been found as a novel method to achieve an intraoperative opioid-sparing effect. However, there is little information about the effective method to inhibit visceral...

Jul 30th, 2021 - Purpose: To identify compliance of special health care needs and healthy pediatric patients with preventive dental appointments after treatment under general anesthesia (GA).
Methods: Records of special health care needs (SHCN) patients treate...

Jul 29th, 2021 - Difficult airway is defined as difficulty or failure in one or more steps in upper airway management. Evaluation of the upper airway with physical examination methods and endoscopic devices is crucial in predicting difficult airway. The aim of thi...

Mar 15th, 2018 - 1: ESGE recommends that prior to SBCE patients ingest a purgative (2 L of polyethylene glycol [PEG]) for better visualization.Strong recommendation, high quality evidence.However, the optimal timing for taking purgatives is yet to be established. ...

May 4th, 2017 - The human and financial costs of treating surgical site infections (SSIs) are increasing. The number of surgical procedures performed in the United States continues to rise, and surgical patients are initially seen with increasingly complex comorb...

Dec 10th, 2016 - Guideline on Use of Anesthesia Personnel in the Administration of Office-based Deep Sedation/General Anesthesia to the Pediatric Dental Patient.|2016||standards,methods,standards,methods,standards,standards,

Jul 8th, 2016 - Historically, oral intake for women during labor has been limited to nothing by mouth or clear liquids only. These restrictions are based on the risk of aspiration during or after the administration of general anesthesia. While aspiration can be l...

Feb 17th, 2009 - Policy on third-party reimbursement of medical fees related to sedation/general anesthesia for delivery of oral health services.|2009| , ,|economics,economics,economics,economics,standards,economics,standards,standards,standards,economics,standard...

May 6th, 2020 - Postoperative delirium is a condition that can develop in some older patients after they have surgery and receive general anesthesia. Patients that develop delirium have difficulty maintaining attention and thinking clearly. Both of these issues c...

May 5th, 2020 - Sleep disordered Breathing (SDB), closely associated with obesity, is a highly prevalent, serious, and often unrecognized breathing disorder resulting from repeated upper airway collapse, decreased oxygen levels, and a very high risk of life threa...

Apr 28th, 2020 - Patients undergoing laparoscopic or robotic assisted total hysterectomy at Erlanger Hospital will be randomized into one of two groups to receive either laparoscopic assisted TAP block with liposomal bupivacaine and bupivacaine (Group A) or pre-in...

Apr 27th, 2020 - In this phase I/II trial, patients with locally advanced pancreatic ductal carcinoma will be assigned to receive interventional treatment of irreversible electroporation (IRE). IRE will be performed by laparotomy under general anesthesia in the op...

Apr 27th, 2020 - Hip fracture is a global public health problem. The postoperative mortality and disability rate of hip fracture is high, and early surgery is still the most effective treatment method, but these patients are often associated with concurrent heart ...

Jul 1st, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During times of high community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, universal screening for the virus before planned medical procedures "should be considered," say U.S. clinicians. In a research letter in JAMA Network Open, Dr. ...

Jun 10th, 2021 - Obstetric patients whose first language is not English received fewer pain assessments and fewer doses of NSAIDs and oxycodone therapeutic equivalents (OTEs) following cesarean deliveries, according to a retrospective cohort study poster presented...

Apr 23rd, 2021 - General anesthesia should be an option for patients at the end of life as a means of easing the physical and mental distress that can burden some people, say experts in anesthesia and ethics. They present a strong ethical and technical case for ma...

Mar 29th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Administration of intranasal insulin before gastrointestinal surgery helps protect against postoperative delirium in elderly patients, according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in China. Mounting evidence sug...

Feb 4th, 2021 - As alcohol intake goes up, so does the likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), epidemiologic surveys and other studies overwhelmingly suggest, as excessive alcohol use is increasingly seen as a modifiable risk factor for the arrhythmia....