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Uncategorized 10 May, 2014 By - webmaster

Anesthesia Management: Dual Nerve Stimulation Helps Chronic Migraine

Stimulating both the occipital and supraorbital nerves provides better relief of chronic migraine than stimulating only the occipital nerve, a new study shows. Fourteen of 20 patients in a case series reported greater than 50% relief of their pain, said Shannon Wang Hann, MD, a neurosurgeon at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She presented […]

Uncategorized 9 May, 2014 By - webmaster

Anesthesia Management: Ketamine Offers Opioid-Sparing in Pediatric Patients

Anesthesiologists looking to reduce the consumption of morphine after scoliosis surgery in pediatric patients may want to consider ketamine, Japanese researchers have found. In a retrospective study, a group from Keio University School of Medicine, in Tokyo, concluded that although ketamine had a morphine-sparing effect after low-dose remifentanil-based anesthesia, this was not the case after […]

Uncategorized 9 May, 2014 By - webmaster

Anesthesia Management: Pre-emptive penile ring block with sucrose analgesia reduces pain response to neonatal circumcision

Published in Urology. 2014 Apr;83(4):893-8 Authors: Roman-Rodriguez CF et al., OBJECTIVE: To compare retrospective use of oral sucrose (SUC) vs oral sucrose plus lidocaine ring block (SUC + RB) in the management of pain during neonatal circumcision. METHODS: A retrospective review of medical records of newborns circumcised using the “Neonatal Infant Pain Scale” was done. […]

Uncategorized 8 May, 2014 By - webmaster

Anesthesia Management: Impact of ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks in the pediatric emergency department

Published in Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Apr;30(4):227-9 Authors: Turner AL et al., OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the duration of analgesia, need for analgesic medications, and pain-related nursing interventions in patients who did and did not receive ultrasound-guided femoral nerve blocks for femur fracture pain. METHODS: This is […]

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Anesthesia Management: Accuracy of Transthoracic Lung Ultrasound for Diagnosing Anesthesia-induced Atelectasis in Children

Published in Anesthesiology. 2014 Mar Authors: Acosta CM et al., BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to test the accuracy of lung sonography (LUS) to diagnose anesthesia-induced atelectasis in children undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS: Fifteen children with American Society of Anesthesiology’s physical status classification I and aged 1 to 7 yr old […]