Published in BMC Anesthesiology
BackgroundTo compare ultrasound-guided tracheal intubation (UGTI) versus Shikani optical stylet (SOS)-aided tracheal intubation in patients with anticipated normal airway.MethodsSixty patients aged 18–65 years old who presented for elective surgery under general anesthesia were recruited in this prospective randomized study. They were assigned into...
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of spinal anesthesia on the QT interval in patients with term and post-term pregnancy that were scheduled for elective cesarean section.Materials and methods: Forty pregnant women scheduled for elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia were assigned into two groups: Post-term gr...
Published in BMC Anesthesiology
BackgroundPostoperative pain in ambulatory surgery is a multifactorial issue affecting patient satisfaction, time of discharge, and rehospitalization. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of nalbuphine for the treatment of postoperative pain after ambulatory surgery, relative to tramadol.MethodsThis multi-center, randomized, double blind, a...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundMedication errors have a high prevalence in surgery and management of home medication is strongly involved in these errors. In scheduled surgery, the preoperative consultation is a privileged time to inform the patient about the management of her/his home medication before admission. This study assessed the impact of a pre-anesthesia best...
Published in Journal of Medical Systems
Medications administered by anesthesia health care providers and subsequently excreted into the water supply system have the potential to affect ecological systems. Presently, there is a lack of literature examining which medications or metabolites enter the waste stream. Further, their potential environmental impacts are often unknown or simply no...
Published in Ain-Shams Journal of Anesthesiology
BackgroundCataract surgery is most commonly done under local anesthesia with anesthesia and sedation controlled. Anesthetic depth and awareness monitoring during surgery frequently lead to irregular-timed observations. Inappropriate choice of working correlation structure in generalized estimating equations (GEE) may lead to inefficient estimation ...
Published in Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
Pulse wave analysis enables stroke volume to be estimated from an arterial blood pressure waveform. Multi-beat analysis is a novel pulse wave analysis method. We aimed to investigate cardiac output (CO) estimations using multi-beat analysis of the radial arterial blood pressure waveform in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery...
Abstract Objectives: Stroke is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in surgery. In the present study, we examined the cerebral oximetry values of patients with carotid artery stenosis who did not present surgical indications and those who did not present carotid artery stenosis in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery by comparing...
Published in Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
Cardiac output (CO) is a key hemodynamic variable that can be minimally invasively estimated by pulse wave analysis. Multi-beat analysis is a novel pulse wave analysis method. In this prospective observational clinical method comparison study, we compared CO estimations by multi-beat analysis with CO measured by intermittent pulmonary artery thermo...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) pandemic has challenged medical systems and clinicians globally to unforeseen levels. Rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced clinicians to care for patients with a highly contagious disease without evidence-based guidelines. Using a virtual modified nominal group...
