Issue 1/2013
Content (50 Articles)
Patient and doctor attitudes and beliefs concerning perioperative do not resuscitate orders: anesthesiologists’ growing compliance with patient autonomy and self determination guidelines
Christopher M Burkle, Keith M Swetz, Matthew H Armstrong, Mark T Keegan
Outcome after hepatectomy-delirium as an independent predictor for mortality
Dalila Veiga, Clara Luís, Daniela Parente, Fernando Abelha
Goal-directed fluid therapy- a survey of anaesthetists in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand
Sanket Srinivasa, Arman Kahokehr, Mattias Soop, Matthew Taylor, Andrew G Hill
The Perioperative Surgical Home: how can it make the case so everyone wins?
Thomas R Vetter, Lee A Goeddel, Arthur M Boudreaux, Thomas R Hunt, Keith A Jones, Jean-Francois Pittet
BMC Anesthesiology Reviewer Acknowledgement, 2012
Thomas A Rowles
The ECMO PK Project: an incremental research approach to advance understanding of the pharmacokinetic alterations and improve patient outcomes during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Kiran Shekar, Jason A Roberts, Maree T Smith, Yoke L Fung, John F Fraser
Evaluation of propofol anesthesia in morbidly obese children and adolescents
Vidya Chidambaran, Senthilkumar Sadhasivam, Jeroen Diepstraten, Hope Esslinger, Shareen Cox, Beverly M Schnell, Paul Samuels, Thomas Inge, Alexander A Vinks, Catherijne A Knibbe
Sodium nitroprusside is not associated with metabolic acidosis during intraoperative infusion in children
Gregory B Hammer, Sara G Connolly, Scott R Schulman, Andrew Lewandowski, Carol Cohane, Tammy L Reece, Ravinder Anand, Jeff Mitchell, David R Drover
Comparing the effects of isoflurane and pentobarbital on the responses of cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferents
Ju-Wen Cheng, Alison I Weber, Sliman J Bensmaia
Global end-diastolic volume increases to maintain fluid responsiveness in sepsis-induced systolic dysfunction
Ronald J Trof, Ibrahim Danad, AB Johan Groeneveld
Factors influencing physical functional status in intensive care unit survivors two years after discharge
Jaqueline S Haas, Cassiano Teixeira, Claudia R Cabral, Alessandra H D Fleig, Ana Paula R Freitas, Erika C Treptow, Márcia IB Rizzotto, André S Machado, Patrícia C Balzano, Márcio P Hetzel, Daniele M Dallegrave, Roselaine P Oliveira, Augusto Savi, Silvia RR Vieira
Effect of remifentanil infusion rate on stress response in orthopedic surgery using a tourniquet application
Taketo Shinoda, Wakako Murakami, Yasuo Takamichi, Hiroki Iizuka, Masaaki Tanaka, Yuto Kuwasako
Anesthesia management of patients undergoing hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion with melphalan for melanoma treatment: an analysis of 17 cases
Heiner Ruschulte, Serena Shi, William W Tseng, Kerstin Kolodzie, Philip C Crawford, Darren B Schneider, Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, David Minor, Christian Apfel, Stanley PL Leong
KPC - 3 Klebsiella pneumoniaeST258 clone infection in postoperative abdominal surgery patients in an intensive care setting: analysis of a case series of 30 patients
Paola Di Carlo, Gaspare Gulotta, Alessandra Casuccio, Gianni Pantuso, Maurizio Raineri, Clizia Airò Farulla, Sebastiano Bonventre, Giuliana Guadagnino, Daniela Ingrassia, Gianfranco Cocorullo, Caterina Mammina, Antonino Giarratano
A survey of education and confidence level among graduating anesthesia residents with regard to selected peripheral nerve blocks
Tiffany Sun Moon, Eunjung Lim, Sakura Kinjo
Elevated central venous pressure is associated with impairment of microcirculatory blood flow in sepsis: a hypothesis generating post hoc analysis
Namkje AR Vellinga, Can Ince, E Christiaan Boerma
Absence of neurotoxicity with perineural injection of ultrasound gels: assessment using an animal model
David Belavy, Nana Sunn, Queenie Lau, Thomas Robertson
In emergently ventilated trauma patients, low end-tidal CO2and low cardiac output are associated and correlate with hemodynamic instability, hemorrhage, abnormal pupils, and death
C Michael Dunham, Thomas J Chirichella, Brian S Gruber, Jonathan P Ferrari, Joseph A Martin, Brenda A Luchs, Barbara M Hileman, Renee Merrell
Evaluation of suspected malignant hyperthermia events during anesthesia
Frank Schuster, Stephan Johannsen, Daniel Schneiderbanger, Norbert Roewer
Study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a single preoperative steroid dose to prevent nausea and vomiting after thyroidectomy: the tPONV study
Ignazio Tarantino, Ulrich Beutner, Walter Kolb, Sascha A Müller, Cornelia Lüthi, Andreas Lüthi, Bruno M Schmied, Thomas Clerici, Rene Warschkow
Breastfeeding and pain relief in full-term neonates during immunization injections: a clinical randomized trial
Maryam Modarres, Azam Jazayeri, Parvin Rahnama, Ali Montazeri
The aPC treatment improves microcirculation in severe sepsis/septic shock syndrome
Abele Donati, Elisa Damiani, Laura Botticelli, Erica Adrario, Maria Rita Lombrano, Roberta Domizi, Benedetto Marini, Jurgen WGE Van Teeffelen, Paola Carletti, Massimo Girardis, Paolo Pelaia, Can Ince
A prospective study of physician pre-hospital anaesthesia in trauma patients: oesophageal intubation, gross airway contamination and the ‘quick look’ airway assessment
David J Lockey, Pascale Avery, Timothy Harris, Gareth E Davies, Hans Morten Lossius
Hemodynamic profiles of intubated and mechanically ventilated carbon monoxide-poisoned patients during systemic hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Marie-Ludivine Chateau-Degat, Julien Poitras, Jacques H Abraini
A latent class approach for sepsis diagnosis supports use of procalcitonin in the emergency room for diagnosis of severe sepsis
Fabián A Jaimes, Gisela D De La Rosa, Marta L Valencia, Clara M Arango, Carlos I Gomez, Alex Garcia, Sigifredo Ospina, Susana C Osorno, Adriana I Henao
Asymmetry in patient-related information disrupts pre-anesthetic patient briefing
Joerg Schnoor, Anja Kupfer, Babette Jurack, Ulrike Reuter, Herrmann Wrigge, Steffen Friese, Volker Thieme
Physicochemical analysis of blood and urine in the course of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: a prospective, observational study
Alexandre Toledo Maciel, Marcelo Park, Etienne Macedo
The effects of levosimendan and dobutamine in experimental bupivacaine-induced cardiotoxicity
Ulku Kandemir, Fikret Maltepe, Baran Ugurlu, Necati Gokmen, Asli Celik
Bilateral transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with 24 hours ropivacaine infusion via TAP catheters: A randomized trial in healthy volunteers
Pernille L Petersen, Karen L Hilsted, Jørgen B Dahl, Ole Mathiesen
Xylazine-induced reduction of tissue sensitivity to insulin leads to acute hyperglycemia in diabetic and normoglycemic monkeys
Yong-Fu Xiao, Bingdi Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Fenglai Du, Michael Benzinou, Yi-Xin Jim Wang
The efficacy of intravenous paracetamol versus dipyrone for postoperative analgesia after day-case lower abdominal surgery in children with spinal anesthesia: a prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study
Esra Caliskan, Mesut Sener, Aysu Kocum, Nesrin Bozdogan Ozyilkan, Semire Serin Ezer, Anis Aribogan
Preoperative insulin resistance reduces complications after hip replacement surgery in non-diabetic patients
Robert G Hahn, Stefan Ljunggren
Non-invasive detection of hypovolemia or fluid responsiveness in spontaneously breathing subjects
Éva Zöllei, Viktória Bertalan, Andrea Németh, Péter Csábi, Ildikó László, József Kaszaki, László Rudas
Perioperative blood transfusions and survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study
Juan P Cata, Varun Chukka, Hao Wang, Lei Feng, Vijaya Gottumukkala, Fernando Martinez, Ara A Vaporciyan
Prolonged non-survival in PICU: does a do-not-attempt-resuscitation order matter
Kam Lun E Hon, Terence Chuen Wai Poon, William Wong, Kin Kit Law, Hiu Wing Mok, Ka Wing Tam, Wai Kin Wong, Hiu Fung Wu, Ka Fai To, Kam Lau Cheung, Hon Ming Cheung, Ting Fan Leung, Chi Kong Li, Alexander K C Leung
A look at the potential association between PICOT framing of a research question and the quality of reporting of analgesia RCTs
Victoria Borg Debono, Shiyuan Zhang, Chenglin Ye, James Paul, Aman Arya, Lindsay Hurlburt, Yamini Murthy, Lehana Thabane
The increase of vasomotor tone avoids the ability of the dynamic preload indicators to estimate fluid responsiveness
Juan P Bouchacourt, Juan A Riva, Juan C Grignola
Adjunctive aerosolized colistin for multi-drug resistant gram-negative pneumonia in the critically ill: a retrospective study
Neha M Doshi, Charles H Cook, Kari L Mount, Stanislaw P Stawicki, Erin N Frazee, Heather A Personett, Garrett E Schramm, Heather M Arnold, Claire V Murphy
Repeated open endotracheal suctioning causes gradual desaturation but does not exacerbate lung injury compared to closed endotracheal suctioning in a rabbit model of ARDS
Hideaki Sakuramoto, Nobutake Shimojo, Subrina Jesmin, Takeshi Unoki, Junko Kamiyama, Masami Oki, Ken Miya, Satoru Kawano, Taro Mizutani
Efficiency of a pneumatic device in controlling cuff pressure of polyurethane-cuffed tracheal tubes: a randomized controlled study
Emmanuelle Jaillette, Farid Zerimech, Julien De Jonckheere, Demosthenes Makris, Malika Balduyck, Alain Durocher, Alain Duhamel, Saad Nseir
Comparison of intraoperative blood loss during spinal surgery using either remifentanil or fentanyl as an adjuvant to general anesthesia
Hiroaki Kawano, Sawa Manabe, Tomomi Matsumoto, Eisuke Hamaguchi, Michiko Kinoshita, Fumihiko Tada, Shuzo Oshita
Functional evaluation and practice survey to guide purchasing of intravenous cannulae
Stanley Tay, Brian Spain, Kirstie Morandell, Jesse Gilson, Laurence Weinberg, David Story
Prognosis and ICU outcome of systemic vasculitis
Patrice Befort, Philippe Corne, Thomas Filleron, Boris Jung, Christian Bengler, Olivier Jonquet, Kada Klouche
Effects of midazolam, pentobarbital and ketamine on the mRNA expression of ion channels in a model organism Daphnia pulex
Changhong Dong, Anmin Hu, Yang Ni, Yunxia Zuo, Guo Hua Li
Lumbar puncture-related cerebrospinal fluid leakage on magnetic resonance myelography: is it a clinically significant finding?
Keita Sakurai, Noriyuki Matsukawa, Kenji Okita, Minoru Nishio, Masashi Shimohira, Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Susumu Kobayashi, Takemori Yamawaki, Yuta Shibamoto
Prognosis of AKI in malignant diseases with and without sepsis
Malte Heeg, Alexander Mertens, David Ellenberger, Gerhard A Müller, Daniel Patschan
Candidemia in the critically ill: initial therapy and outcome in mechanically ventilated patients
Marcela A Ferrada, Andrew A Quartin, Daniel H Kett, Michele I Morris
Burnout in intensive care units - a consideration of the possible prevalence and frequency of new risk factors: a descriptive correlational multicentre study
Carla Teixeira, Orquídea Ribeiro, António Manuel Fonseca, Ana Sofia Carvalho
Procalcitonin as a marker of sepsis and outcome in patients with neurotrauma: an observation study
Shuixiang Deng, Hechen Zhu, Kunlun Wang, Tongwa Cao