Postoperative pain management in children: Guidance from the pain committee of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA Pain Management Ladder Initiative) [PDF]
The main remit of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (ESPA) Pain Committee is to improve the quality of pain management in children. The ESPA Pain Management Ladder is a clinical practice advisory based upon expert consensus to help to ...
Adamek+196 more
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New patents on topical anesthetics. [PDF]
Anesthesia is defined as a total or partial loss of sensation and it may be general, local or topical, depending on the method of drug administration and area of the body affected.
CALVIERI, Stefano+6 more
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The role of Volatile Anesthetics in Cardioprotection: a systematic review. [PDF]
This review evaluates the mechanism of volatile anesthetics as cardioprotective agents in both clinical and laboratory research and furthermore assesses possible cardiac side effects upon usage.
Applegate, Richard L+5 more
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High-throughput screening in larval zebrafish identifies novel potent sedative-hypnotics [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Many general anesthetics were discovered empirically, but primary screens to find new sedative-hypnotics in drug libraries have not used animals, limiting the types of drugs discovered.
Brown, Lauren E.+12 more
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Lipid Emulsion for Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity
The accidental overdose of local anesthetics may prove fatal. The commonly used amide local anesthetics have varying adverse effects on the myocardium, and beyond a certain dose all are capable of causing death.
Sarah Ciechanowicz, Vinod Patil
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INHALATION SEDATION IN THE PATIENTS AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
From the time when special tools for delivery of volatile anesthetics in the intensive care units (ICU) became available, inhalation sedation is getting more and more popular among emergency physicians.
V. V. Likhvantsev+5 more
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Intracameral lidocaine as supplement to classic topical anesthesia for relieving ocular pain in cataract surgery [PDF]
● AIM: To evaluate safety, efficacy, and patient adherence of intracameral lidocaine as supplement of classic topical anesthetic drops in cataract surgery.
Librando, Aloisa+4 more
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Structural interplay of anesthetics and paralytics on muscle nicotinic receptors
General anesthetics and neuromuscular blockers are used together during surgery to stabilize patients in an unconscious state. Anesthetics act mainly by potentiating inhibitory ion channels and inhibiting excitatory ion channels, with the net effect of ...
Umang Goswami+3 more
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Effects of Anesthetics on Barrier Tissue Function
Anesthetics have long been proven to have additional effects other than anesthesia on different organs and tissues of the human body. Barrier tissues play critical roles in human health and diseases, yet the impacts of anesthetics on barrier tissues are ...
Fujing Wang+4 more
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Perioperative and anesthetic deaths: toxicological and medico legal aspects [PDF]
Background: Anesthesia has become safer during decades, though there is still a preventable mortality; the complexity of medical and surgical interventions, increasingly older and sicker patients, has created a host of new hazards in anesthesiology.
Argo A.+5 more
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