Also available on YouTube. Aspirin constitutes important lifelong therapy for many patients with cardiovascular (CV) disease or significant CV risk factors. However, perioperative aspirin management (continuation versus temporary cessation) in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery is a common clinical conundrum that balances aspirin’s potential for decreasing thrombotic risk against possible increased perioperative blood loss. Dr. Neal […]
Also available on YouTube Many might think that history is boring. Specifically with regard to anesthesia, who cares what happened 50 years ago? For anesthesiologists, the history of anesthesia is important in part because it allows us to better understand from where we have come so that we have a better understanding of why it […]
Also available on YouTube. Two papers published in this month’s issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, “The Effect of 6% Hydroxyethyl Starch 130/0.4 on Renal Function, Arterial Blood Pressure, and Vasoactive Hormones During Radical Prostatectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial” and “Hydroxyethyl Starch and Acute Kidney Injury in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Single-Center Retrospective Review” represent two […]
Also available on YouTube. Maternal cardiopulmonary arrest around the time of delivery happens infrequently. Dr. Judith Aronsohn, Department of Anesthesiology, North Shore/LIJ Health System, New Hyde Park, New York, and colleagues describe a 38-year-old, 131 kg, patient with longstanding chronic hypertension and nontoxic goiter with a presumptive diagnosis of preeclampsia without proteinuria who became agitated […]
Also available on YouTube. Lung diffusion for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is commonly used to examine the diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide, a common assessment of pulmonary gas exchange. Similarly, pulmonary surfactant protein type B (SPB) can serve as a marker of damage to the alveolar-capillary membrane. Impaired oxygenation during anesthesia, even for […]
Also available on YouTube. Even with the resources available in the most modern intensive care units, the mortality in patients with respiratory distress syndrome remains high. Therapy is supportive, and there is no pharmacological therapy that demonstrably improves outcome. Dr. Giacomo Bellani, Department of Health Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy, and Department of Emergency, […]
