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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Background: Allogenic blood transfusion is associated with several potential complications, especially in patients with cancer. The objective of this prospective single-centre study was to identify the rates of perioperative blood transfusion and ...
Priya Ranganathan +3 more
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ASCORE: an up-to-date cardiovascular risk score for hypertensive patients reflecting contemporary clinical practice developed using the (ASCOT-BPLA) trial data. [PDF]
A number of risk scores already exist to predict cardiovascular (CV) events. However, scores developed with data collected some time ago might not accurately predict the CV risk of contemporary hypertensive patients that benefit from more modern ...
A K Gupta +27 more
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Elective Open Suprarenal Aneurysm Repair in England from 2000 to 2010 an Observational Study of Hospital Episode Statistics [PDF]
Background: Open surgery is widely used as a benchmark for the results of fenestrated endovascular repair of complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).
Alan Karthikesalingam +31 more
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Propofol in modern multicomponent general anesthesia
This article examines the use of propofrol in the perioperative period. It is known that one of the main principles of modern anesthesiology is to ensure maximum safety of the patient during and after anesthesia.
E. Yu. Sorokina
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Direct Current Auditory Evoked Potentials During Wakefulness, Anesthesia, and Emergence from Anesthesia [PDF]
Direct current auditory evoked potentials (DC-AEPs) are a sensitive indicator of depth of anesthesia in ani-mals. However, they have never been investigated in humans. To assess the potential usefulness of DC-AEPs as an indicator of anesthesia in humans,
Bauer, Herbert +5 more
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Neurological biomarkers in the perioperative period [PDF]
The rapid detection and evaluation of patients presenting with perioperative neurological dysfunction is of great clinical relevance. Biomarkers have been defined as biological molecules that can be used as an indicator of new onset or progression of a biological process or effect of treatment.
J P, Cata, B, Abdelmalak, E, Farag
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Electroencephalography: Clinical Applications During the Perioperative Period
Electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring has become technically feasible in daily clinical anesthesia practice. EEG is a sensitive method for detecting neurophysiological changes in the brain and represents an important frontier in the monitoring and ...
Yi Sun +4 more
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Antiplatelet Agents in the Perioperative Period [PDF]
To determine the use of the 3 major classes of antiplatelet drugs (aspirin, thienopyridines, and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors), their management in the perioperative period, and the risks associated with premature withdrawal.We reviewed the PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases using the terms antiplatelet agents in the perioperative period ...
James M, O'Riordan +3 more
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Hemispherectomy for Intractable Epilepsy
Charts of 111 patients, ages 2 months to 20 years, who underwent hemidecortication for intractable unihemispheric epilepsy in the period 1975-2001 were reviewed at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
J Gordon Millichap
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