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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is mainly used for support of patients with cardiopulmonary collapse. The increasing use of ECMO has shown promising outcomes; however, it still carries the risk of s...
The impact of routine preoperative anesthesia evaluations on potential perioperative complications remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effect of preoperative evaluation on early perioperative ...
Muscle relaxants are used during surgery, but their impact on ECG may differ, potentially affecting cardiac safety. This study aimed to compare the effects of Atracurium versus Cisatracurium on QT interval cha...
Pulse oximeters are vital for assessing blood oxygen levels but can produce inaccurate readings during patient motion, leading to false alarms and alarm fatigue. Analog SpO2 Technology, which uses analog waveform...
The syndrome has these features: 3-methylglutaconic aciduria (MEG), deafness(D), encephalopathy (E), Leigh-like syndrome (L). This disorder is caused by biallelic mutations in serine active site-containing pro...
Spinal anesthesia for transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has a short duration, which poses challenges for postoperative pain management. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of intrav...
Ciprofol(HSK3486) is a novel 2,6-disubstituted phenol derivate, a short-acting intravenous sedative, which has similar efficacy characteristics as propofol with less incidence of side effect. Both ciprofol and...
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is minimally invasive, ambulatory endoscopic surgical procedure usually performed in most paranasal sinus diseases. Controlled hypotension during anaesthesia (hypoten...
Delirium is one of the most common neurological complications after cardiac surgery. The purpose of our study was to assess the relationship between perioperative blood pressure variability (BPV) and postopera...
The original article was published in BMC Anesthesiology 2024 24:387
Local infiltration analgesia (LIA) is a crucial component of multimodal analgesia that enhances recovery after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, LIA can cause fatal local anest...
As a fascial plane block technique, further exploration is needed to determine the safety and efficacy of a peri-capsular nerve group (PENG) block in elderly patients with intertrochanteric femur fractures. We...
Inadequate acute postoperative pain management is linked to the effect on the stress response and development of chronic pain. A unique regional anaesthetic method that is becoming more important for postopera...
In oral maxillofacial surgery, the nasal tracheal tube is mostly used to provide a better surgical field for oral, head and neck operations. Postoperative sore throat and hoarseness are common following trache...
Post-operative delirium (PD) is a common post-operative complication with significant clinical and financial impacts on patients. Erythropoietin (EPO), a multi-functional glycoprotein hormone, exhibits erythro...
Thyroid storm (TS) is a critical manifestation of hyperthyroidism. In recent years, the risk of perioperative TS is significantly decreased in patients with hyperthyroidism undergoing thyroid surgeries with ad...
In clinical practice, family medication history is not routinely assessed as part of a patient’s family health history (FHH). The information is self-reported and can depend on the individual’s subjective perc...
Transpulmonary pressure is the effective pressure across the lung parenchyma and has been proposed as a guide for mechanical ventilation. The pleural pressure is challenging to directly measure in clinical set...
Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is necessary during surgeries requiring clear access to the surgical field and in patients with respiratory issues. This study investigates the pre-NTI nasal disinfection efficacy...
Laparoscopic surgery is a popular alternative for resection of colorectal neoplasms. Carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg positioning in procedure can significantly increase airway pressure, when ...
The Matters Arising to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2025 25:180
Ciprofol, a novel intravenous general anesthetic with a chemical structure similar to propofol, exhibits significantly enhanced potency. It offers a rapid onset, reduced incidence of injection pain, and has co...
Studies have reported that ciprofol has the advantage of reducing injection pain compared to propofol during gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and fiberoptic bronchoscopy. The effect of ciprofol on the injection pain ...
Patients undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) are particularly susceptible to infections: 42% experience sepsis and 26% develop a nosocomial infection (NI). Whether antibiotic prophylaxis is e...
Postoperative sore throat (POST) is a common complaint after general anesthesia. POST is defined by the presence of a self-reported foreign body sensation or a painful sensation in the throat after general ane...
Worldwide, the cesarean section (c-section) rate is rising. Globally, regional anesthesia in the form of spinal anesthesia (SA) is considered the first choice in uncomplicated c-section cases for safe maternal...
Remimazolam tosilate represents the novel ultrashort-acting benzodiazepine drug. This work focused on exploring whether remimazolam tosilate was effective and safe in anesthesia for short otolaryngology surger...
High spinal block is a serious complication of spinal anesthesia. However, findings regarding its associated risk factors are inconsistent, and no studies have reported a relevant risk prediction score. We aim...
Catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) and pain commonly arises postoperatively in patients who undergo intra-operative urinary catheterization. The study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of intraveno...
Propofol is one of the important drug causes of respiratory depression in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) anesthesia. This study aims to clarify whether Ciprofol in ERCP anesthesia reduce...
Obesity is one of the conditions that may require invasive airway management. The effectiveness of invasive airway techniques in obesity is not fully understood, and there is no routinely recommended technique...
Thiol-disulfide homeostasis (TDH) plays a pivotal role in various physiological mechanisms, including antioxidant defence, detoxification, apoptosis, regulation of enzyme activities and cellular signal transdu...
The drug volume to be used in caudal in pediatric patients has remained an unmet issue since long. We determined the minimum drug volume required to reach T10 level in pediatric patients using ultrasonography ...
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Cuffed endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are commonly used in pediatric patients, with the gold standard for measuring cuff pressure being a cuff pressure manometer. However, this equipment is not always available in ...
Regional anesthesia (RA) can improve patient outcomes and reduce perioperative complications including deaths. Despite its benefits, RA is less utilised in low-resource settings. The purpose of this study was ...
Postoperative negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) can occur in any patient undergoing general anesthesia. There are several risk factors for it, especially postoperative laryngospasm. The disease is usual...
Ciprofol, a recently developed anesthetic agent, is not inferior to propofol in terms of efficacy and safety. However, most previous clinical experience with ciprofol was based on a robust population. This stu...
To investigate if intraoperative very short-term variability in blood pressure measured by sample entropy improves discrimination of postoperative acute kidney injury after noncardiac surgery.
We explored the efficacy and safety of esketamine combined with propofol for conscious sedation in painless colonoscopy.
To ensure comprehensive dental treatment under general anesthesia(GA) is a viable option, postoperative complications must be minimized. This study investigates the incidence and determinants of acute psycholo...
Multiple preoperative calculators are available online to predict preoperative mortality risk for noncardiac surgical patients. However, it is currently unknown how these risk calculators perform across differ...
This study was designed and implemented to investigate the addition of dexmedetomidine to Serratus Anterior Plane Block (SAP) with ropivacaine in reducing pain in patients undergoing post-thoracotomy surgery.
According to the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, it is recommended that patients with difficult airways be documented and notified, which will provide healthcare professionals with a direct reference when m...
Erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is a novel analgesic technique that can reduce post-operative pain and postoperative opioid consumption in laparoscopic surgeries.
Although the incidence of postoperative atelectasis could be reduced using lung recruitment manoeuvres, it remains high. We hypothesised that intraoperative visual lung recruitment guided by trans-oesophageal ...
Compared with open radical prostatectomy (RP), laparoscopic or robot-assisted RP have shown a notable decrease in the incidence of organ dysfunction or potentially life-threating complications after surgery. H...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2024 24:423
We report the case of a 56-year-old male diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia who developed a severe cervical hematoma following an ultrasound-guided right internal jugular vein catheterization. Despite recei...
Prophylactic corticosteroids have been widely used to mitigate the inflammatory response induced by cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). However, the impact of this treatment on clinically important outcomes in infan...
Elderly patients often experience severe pain during percutaneous kyphoplasty under local anaesthesia. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of lidocaine combined with esketamine on pain improvement ...
Retrospective analysis of difficult airway alerts in a major tertiary centre.
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