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The Effect of Prophylactic Phenylephrine and Ephedrine Infusions on Umbilical Artery Blood pH in Women With Preeclampsia Undergoing Cesarean Delivery With Spinal Anesthesia: A Randomized, Double-Blind Trial

Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2017
BACKGROUND: Spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery is associated with a high incidence of hypotension. Phenylephrine results in higher umbilical artery pH than ephedrine when used to prevent or treat hypotension in healthy women.
N. Higgins, P. Fitzgerald, D. Van Dyk, R. Dyer, Natalie Rodriguez, R. McCarthy, C. Wong   +6 more
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Level of sensory block after spinal anesthesia as a predictor of hypotension in parturient

Medicine, 2017
When the sensory block level (SBL) is ≥T5 or T4, a high incidence of hypotension occurs in parturients after spinal anesthesia. A rapidly ascending SBL is another risk factor for spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension.
Ning Zhang, Liang-liang He, Jiaxiang Ni
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Intraarticular Tramadol-Bupivacaine Combination Prolongs the Duration of Postoperative Analgesia After Outpatient Arthroscopic Knee Surgery [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Intraarticular (IA) local anesthetics are often used for the management and prevention of pain after arthroscopic knee surgery. Recently, IA tramadol was also used for the management of these patients.
Baraka, Anis, El-Katib, Mohamad, Kassem, Rida, Maaliki, Hilal, Nahleh, Nezih, Struys, Michel, Zeidan, Ahed   +6 more
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Effect of Different Methods of Skin Infiltration of Local Anesthetics on Pain during Spinal Anesthesia Induction

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2013
Background: Spinal anesthesia needs needle insertion through the skin into the subarachnoid space. In most patients, this insertion causes pain which leads to discomfort, stress, unintended moving and finally, failure in spinal block.
Sayed Jalal Hashemi, Gholam-Reza Khalili, Samanehsadat Moosavi   +2 more
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CRITERIA OF ASSESSMENT OF HIGH SPINAL ANESTHESIA EFFICIENCY IN UPPER ABDOMEN SURGERIES

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2017
In recent years, the frequency of application of regional anesthesia methods, and especially in economically developed countries, has progressively increased.
A. B. Yakushevskiy, A. N. Plekhanov, A. V. Zharnikov   +2 more
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Neural Substrates of Chronic Pain in the Thalamocortical Circuit [PDF]

, 2011
Chronic pain (CP), a pathological condition with a large repertory of signs and symptoms, has no recognizable neural functional common hallmark shared by its diverse expressions.
Antonio G. Zippo, Gabriele E. M. Biella, Gian Carlo Caramenti, Maurizio Valente, Riccardo M. Storchi   +4 more
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The free energy of biomembrane and nerve excitation and the role of anesthetics

, 2018
In the electromechanical theory of nerve stimulation, the nerve impulse consists of a traveling region of solid membrane in a liquid environment. Therefore, the free energy necessary to stimulate a pulse is directly related to the free energy difference ...
Heimburg, Thomas, Jackson, Andrew D., Music, Tea, Wang, Tian   +3 more
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Obstetric anesthesia: Spinal Sub-arachnoid Blockade

, 2009
In 1818, Benjamine Rush, while describing the essential characteristics for an ideal anesthetic for obstetric practice expressed the hope that ‘a medicine would be discovered which should suspend sensibility altogether and leave irritability or powers of
N. Ahmad
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Shivering Management in Spinal Anesthesia: Evaluating the Role of Ketamine: A Narrative Review

Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Background: Shivering is one of the most prevalent known complications due to dysregulation in the thermoregulatory system following regional anesthesia, with an incidence of 65%, leading to unpleasant outcomes and decreased patient satisfaction ...
Siavash Sangi, Mehrdad Mesbah Kiaei, Shahnam Sedigh Maroufi, Maryam Aligholizadeh, Parisa Moradimajd, Azam Saei   +5 more
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Comparison of Preemptive Intramuscular and Intravenous Ephedrine for Reduction of Spinal Anesthesia Induced Hypotension during Cesarean Section

پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2009
Introduction & Objective: Spinal anesthesia offers many advantages for cesarean section delivery. But one of its disadvantages is higher incidence of hypotension.
Nahid Manochehrian, Mahshid Nikoseresht, Mohammad Ali Seif Rabie   +2 more
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