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Effect of Opioid-Free General Anesthesia Versus Opioid-Based General Anesthesia on Postoperative Pain and Immune Response in Patients Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Perioperative opioids are associated with several adverse effects including nausea, vomiting, and long-term addiction. Opioid-free anesthesia may reduce postoperative morbidity, enable daycare surgery, and dec...
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Feasibility of the ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) Protocol in Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgeries in a Tertiary Care Hospital—A Prospective Interventional Study
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols have emerged as a promising approach to optimize perioperative care and improve outcomes in various surgical specialties. Despite feasibility studies on ERAS in...
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Quality of life and symptom burden in hematological cancer patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: an observational study at Regional Cancer Centre, India
Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is an intense form of treatment, resulting in major symptom burden but can prove curative. The quality of life (QOL) is a major endpoint for these patients as the surv...
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Correction to: A comparison of two techniques of postoperative analgesia: lignocaine-fentanyl intravenous infusion and ropivacaine-fentanyl epidural infusion in patients undergoing cytoreductive cancer surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)—prospective randomized control study
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A comparison of two techniques of postoperative analgesia: lignocaine-fentanyl intravenous infusion and ropivacaine-fentanyl epidural infusion in patients undergoing cytoreductive cancer surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)—prospective randomized control study
Extensive surgical dissection, hemodynamic alterations associated with cytoreductive surgery (CRS), and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) make pain management challenging. We hypothesized that ...
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Improving the performance status in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients with chemotherapy (ImPACt trial): a phase 2 study
This phase II trial is designed to test whether the performance status (PS) of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) patients (pts) can improve with chemotherapy if their poor PS (Eastern Cooperative ...
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Can EPIC Be a Low-Cost Alternative to HIPEC in Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in Resource-Constraint Settings? Experience from Tertiary Care Oncology Center
Management of advanced ovarian cancer underwent a paradigm shift with advent of cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy requires complex machinery and ...
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Pattern of Care in Real-World Scenario on Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in a Tertiary Referral Oncology Centre in India — ISPSM Collaborative Study
The treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has evolved over time. With advent of platinum-based chemotherapy and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), there is a paradigm shift in t...
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To compare clinical versus ultrasound assessment of correct placement of ProSeal Laryngeal mask airway (PLMA): a prospective randomized study
Extraglottic airway devices (EAD) have revolutionized the perioperative airway management. The accuracy of clinical tests to identify malposition has been questioned by recent studies where fibreoptic evaluati...
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Comparison of two forced air warming systems for prevention of intraoperative hypothermia in carcinoma colon patients: a prospective randomized study
Hypothermia is common occurrence in patients undergoing colonic surgeries. We hypothesized that the underbody forced air warming blankets will be better than conventional over-body forced air warming blankets ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic: a new epoch and fresh challenges for cancer patients and caregivers—a descriptive cross-sectional study
Cancer patients and their caregivers are overwhelmed with features of uncertainty, fear, shock, worry, anxiety, sadness, and grief. To add on to their misery, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely afflicted the c...
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Oxygen Therapy in Cancer Patients
Oxygen availability and its delivery are important for the human being and become more important in cancer patients, especially when they are critically ill. The oxygen should be considered as a drug and thus ...
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Palliative Care in Gynaecologic Oncology
Gynaecologic cancers are increasingly being managed at many centers. Though the intent remains curative but it may not be feasible to all patients because of various reasons including late presentation, aggres...
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Surgical Services—AIIMS, New Delhi Experience
COVID pandemic has impacted cancer care delivery and cancer surgical services globally. There is an urgent need to study the extent of the impact of COVID on cancer surgery and individual institutional respons...
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Open AccessFeasibility and outcomes of cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC for peritoneal surface malignancies in low- and middle-income countries: a single-center experience of 232 cases
Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has recently emerged as a viable management option for peritoneal surface malignancy (PSM). CRS and HIPEC is a complex, multidi...
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Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgeries
The incidence of gastrointestinal cancer is increasing globally. The perioperative management remains challenging for this group of cancers. Obtaining a favorable outcome in the gastrointestinal onco-surgeries...
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ICU Care of SurgicalOncology Patients
Intensive care unit (ICU) care for a patient in the post-operative patient may be required electively or due to unexpected complications in the perioperative period. Critically ill surgical patient is at risk ...
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Anesthesia for Palliative Surgery
Due to recent advances in medicine, the mortality from chronic diseases is decreasing. More and more patients are presenting with complex chronic progressive diseases where only symptomatic cure is possible. S...
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Anesthesia for Robotic Gynecologic and Urogenital Cancer Surgery
Robotic surgeries have evolved and found a role in various minimal access urologic and gynecologic surgery. The robotic interventions have been proposed to have lesser morbidities in various surgical intervent...
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Anesthesia for Gynecological and Urological Cancer Surgery
Gynecological and urological cancers are increasing worldwide. Anesthesiologists would be encountering more and more such cases for both elective and emergency surgeries. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in many such ...
