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Association of Blood Pressure Variability with Delirium in Patients with Critical Illness
The objective was to examine the association of blood pressure variability (BPV) during the first 24 h after intensive care unit admission with the likelihood of delirium and depressed alertness without deliri...
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Open AccessIncidence of postoperative opioid-induced respiratory depression episodes in patients on room air or supplemental oxygen: a post-hoc analysis of the PRODIGY trial
Supplemental oxygen (SO) potentiates opioid-induced respiratory depression (OIRD) in experiments on healthy volunteers. Our objective was to examine the relationship between SO and OIRD in patients on surgical...
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Perioperative management of mastocytosis
Patients with mastocytosis have an increased risk of anaphylaxis during surgical procedures with general anesthesia. Therefore, we reviewed the anesthesia course of a large cohort of patients with mastocytosis.
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Association Between Exposure of Children to General Anesthesia and Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study tested the hypothesis that exposure of children prior to their third birthday to procedures requiring general anesthesia is associated with an increased incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) i...
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Open AccessPostoperative pulmonary complications with adjuvant regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia alone: a sub-analysis of the Perioperative Research Network study
Adjuvant regional anesthesia is often selected for patients or procedures with high risk of pulmonary complications after general anesthesia. The benefit of adjuvant regional anesthesia to reduce postoperative...
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Postoperative outcomes in patients with treatment-emergent central sleep apnea: a case series
Treatment-emergent central sleep apnea (TECSA) is a central sleep-related breathing disorder, characterized by either the persistence or emergence of central sleep apnea during the initiation of positive airwa...
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Preoperative cognitive impairment associated with oversedation during recovery from anesthesia
Our objective was to examine the association between preoperative cognitive status and postoperative recovery from anesthesia.
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Open AccessPerioperative opioid requirements of patients receiving sublingual buprenorphine-naloxone: a case series
Buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist, displaces full opioid agonists from receptors and may impede surgical pain management. We report the effects of a sublingual formulation of buprenorphine-naloxone, Subo...
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Correction to: The Role of Aprepitant in Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Bariatric Surgery
In the section “Discussion” on page 41, the second sentence in the second paragraph in the right-hand column should read as follows.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and anesthesia: a case series and review of the literature
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to death due to respiratory failure. This report describes the perioperative characteristics of ALS patients who underw...
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Open AccessHemodynamic instability during percutaneous ablation of extra-adrenal metastases of pheochromocytoma and paragangliomas: a case series
Surgical manipulation of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) may induce large hemodynamic oscillations due to catecholamine release. Little is known regarding hemodynamic instability during percutaneo...
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Low minute ventilation episodes during anesthesia recovery following intraperitoneal surgery as detected by a non-invasive respiratory volume monitor
An electrical impedance-based noninvasive respiratory volume monitor (RVM) accurately reports minute volume, tidal volume and respiratory rate. Here we used the RVM to quantify the occurrence of and evaluate t...
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Primary central sleep apnea and anesthesia: a retrospective case series
Primary (idiopathic) central sleep apnea (PCSA) is a rare central sleep-related breathing disorder characterized by increased chemoreceptor sensitivity to partial pressure of carbon dioxide, which manifests as...
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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life in children and adolescents with congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a cross-sectional study
Patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) have a high residual morbidity rate. We compared self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) between patients with CDH and healthy children.
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Pediatric patients receiving naloxone within 48 h of anesthesia: a case–control study
Excessive narcotization in pediatric surgical patients has not been well characterized. This report describes the use of postoperative naloxone in pediatric patients.
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The Role of Aprepitant in Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Bariatric Surgery
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is common with bariatric surgery. We examined the PONV rate in bariatric surgical patients who received triple antiemetic prophylaxis (dexamethasone, droperidol, and on...
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The Aging Respiratory System: Strategies to Minimize Postoperative Pulmonary Complications
Even though there is a gradual reduction in respiratory function that occurs with age, respiratory capacity remains adequate for healthy elderly individuals under normal circumstances. However, this reduced ca...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy and anesthesia: a case series
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune demyelinating polyneuropathy characterized by symmetrical diffuse weakness that also can rarely affect bulbar and resp...
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Open AccessPatients with glycogen storage diseases undergoing anesthesia: a case series
Glycogen storage diseases are rare genetic disorders of glycogen synthesis, degradation, or metabolism regulation. When these patients are subjected to anesthesia, perioperative complications can develop, incl...
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Serotonergic medications, herbal supplements, and perioperative serotonin syndrome
Perioperative use of serotonergic agents increases the risk of serotonin syndrome. We describe the occurrence of serotonin syndrome after fentanyl use in two patients taking multiple serotonergic agents.
