Alpha-2-adrenergic receptor agonists for the prevention of delirium and cognitive decline after open heart surgery (ALPHA2PREVENT): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Postoperative delirium is common in older cardiac surgery patients and associated with negative short-term and long-term outcomes. The alpha-2-adrenergic receptor agonist dexmedetomidine shows promise as prophylaxis and treatment for ...
Eva Skovlund +18 more
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The Association of an Alpha-2 Adrenergic Receptor Agonist and Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 There is a need for treatments to reduce coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality. Alpha-2 adrenergic receptor (α2 AR) agonists can dampen immune cell and inflammatory responses as well as improve oxygenation through physiologic respiratory ...
John L. Hamilton +5 more
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Bali Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021 Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. If the management of acute postoperative pain is not done properly, it can lead to the complication such as chronic pain.
Dewa Ayu Nyoman Isma Pratiwi +2 more
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Spinal anesthesia for elective ceasarean section: use of different doses of hyperbaric bupivacaine associated with morphine and clonidine [PDF]
Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2013 PURPOSE: To comparatively study the efficacy and maternal and fetal side-effects of two doses of bupivacaine associated with morphine and clonidine, administered by the subarachnoid route for cesarean section.
Angélica de Fátima de Assunção Braga +4 more
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Receptor-mediated enhancement of beta adrenergic drug activity by ascorbate in vitro and in vivo. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 RATIONALE: Previous in vitro research demonstrated that ascorbate enhances potency and duration of activity of agonists binding to alpha 1 adrenergic and histamine receptors.
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An Alpha-1A Adrenergic Receptor Agonist Prevents Acute Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy in Male Mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Alpha-1 adrenergic receptors mediate adaptive effects in the heart and cardiac myocytes, and a myocyte survival pathway involving the alpha-1A receptor subtype and ERK activation exists in vitro. However, data in vivo are limited.
Megan D Montgomery +5 more
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Effect of preoperative administration of systemic alpha-2 agonists on postoperative pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2020 Background Alpha-2 agonists have sedative, analgesic, and opioid-sparing effects. Moreover, intraoperative or postoperative systemic administration of alpha-2 adrenergic agonists is known to reduce postoperative pain and opioid consumption.
Ji Youn Ju, Kye-Min Kim, Sangseok Lee
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Adjuvant dexmedetomidine in treatment of alcohol withdrawal delirium: Case series
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023 Alcohol withdrawal delirium is a medical emergency with mortality rates of 20–50% without treatment. Benzodiazepines (BZDs) (gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor agonists) are the mainstay of treatment.
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Journal of Lipid Research, 1981 The aim of this study was to define the role of the alpha-adrenergic receptor in the regulation of lipolysis by human adipocytes. Glycerol production by isolated human adipocytes was stimulated by the pure beta-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol in a dose ...
E E Wright, E R Simpson
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Evaluation of Dexmedetomidine as an Adjuvant to Intrathecal Bupivacaine in Infraumbilical Surgeries [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Introduction: Various adjuvants like morphine, buprenorphine and fentanyl, clonidine, ketamine are being used in anaesthetic practice since long for improvement of peri-operative analgesia following spinal anaesthesia. Such adjuvants have been helpful
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