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Filter by:Epidural placement is a commonly used procedure for pain management during labor, delivery, and surgeries. However, epidural placement is often considered a technically challenging and complex procedure that requires a high level of skill and experience. In cases where the epidural is improperly placed or fails to produce effective analgesia, the discomfort and distress experienced by the patient may be heightened. Hence, the use of predictors, such as sonographic ones, may prove to be a valuable tool for healthcare professionals in the placement of epidurals, ultimately ensuring successful pain management for patients. The present study aims to identify predictors of difficult epidural placement in patients undergoing surgery.
Ciprofol, a novel intravenous general anesthetic with a chemical structure akin to propofol, boasts significantly enhanced potency. It offers a rapid onset, reduced incidence of injection pain, and minor impact on the cardiovascular system. However, clinical research regarding ciprofol's use for anesthesia induction in cardiac surgery remains limited. The investigators want to assesse the safety and effectiveness of ciprofol in cardiac surgery anesthesia
A prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial is designed to evaluate the safety of nerve block anesthesia combined with sedative anesthesia versus general anesthesia during burr hole craniostomy with drainage for chronic subdural hematoma.
The primary objective of this observational study is to investigate the risk factors for intraoperative hypotension and identify the underlying pathomechanisms leading to it, both during the period after general anesthesia induction and throughout its course. The main questions it aims to answer are: - how frequent is intraoperative hypotension - what are the underlying pathomechanism causing it The study is including patients who have been identified as having a high risk of perioperative complications (ASA3 or ASA4). Patients included in the study undergo advanced hemodynamic monitoring during the procedure. Anesthesia induction, maintenance, and termination are conducted by an anesthesiologist in accordance with current medical knowledge, and the planned experiment does not in any way influence the course of action. Investigators will analyse medical documentation, including the patient's medical history, anesthesia records, and hemodynamic parameter data obtained from the hemodynamic monitor (an Excel file containing comprehensive data related to specific cardiovascular parameters) to describe the incidence of intraoperative hypotension and answer key questions in accordance with the designed study protocol.
Anxiety preceding surgery results in hemodynamic instability, metabolic side effects, increased post-operative pain, and agitation during emergence. Therefore, pharmacological interventions are used to reduce pre-operative anxiety and enhance anesthetic induction without delaying recovery. The premedication must be administered in a manner that is safe, painless, and without significant adverse effects. In children, the incidence of emergency agitation or delirium after general anesthesia ranges from 10% to 80% and significantly increases the incidence of other complications after anesthesia, such as self-injury, prolonged postanesthesia care unit (PACU) stay, frustration of parents and care providers. Numerous pharmacological and non-pharmacological techniques, including sedative premedication, parental presence, and training programs for participants and their parents, have been investigated to reduce anxiety and enhance compliance during anesthesia induction. An ideal premedication prescription should sedate a child to facilitate separation from parents, thus simplifying anesthesia induction and creating a pleasant surgical experience for both children and parents. [5] Anxiolysis is the major objective of premedication in children, as it facilitates separation from parents and facilitates the induction of anesthesia. Premedication may also induce amnesia, the prevention of physiologic stress, vagolysis, a decrease in total anesthetic requirements, a lower likelihood of aspiration, decreased salivation and secretions, antiemesis, and analgesia. All drugs have the potential to make people sleepy and slow their breathing, so they must be given with extreme care and closely watched. Ketamine is a useful sedative and analgesic for preventing preoperative anxiety in children; it exerts its analgesic effect through the reversible antagonist action of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. It has analgesic and sedative effects in different doses of administration. Ketamine is often administered orally and is αreported to be safe and effective in pediatric patients. An effective sedative and analgesic with minimal respiratory depressive effects is dexmedetomidine, an α2-adrenoceptor agonist. It also reduces the hemodynamic stress response due to its sympatholytic effect. These characteristics make it a possible anesthetic premedication. Midazolam, a water-soluble benzodiazepine, is commonly used as a preanesthetic medicine in children due to its several favorable effects: sedation, anxiolysis, antegrade amnesia, rapid onset, and brief duration of action. Adenoidectomy and/or tonsillectomy are the most common surgical procedures done on children. Hence, the present study will be conducted to objectively evaluate, the perioperative effects of oral dexmedetomidine, ketamine, or midazolam premedication in patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy.
At the end of 2019, cases of an unknown respiratory infection were reported in the city of Wuhan in China. It was determined that the cause of this infection was a new virus belonging to the coronavirus family, which was named SARS-CoV-2. After the virus spread worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic. The clinical picture and disease caused by the virus were named COVID-19 (1). According to the WHO's data on 29.01.2022, the number of cases worldwide has exceeded 365 million, and the number of deaths has exceeded 5 million (2). Fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, myalgia, sore throat, and headache are the main symptoms of COVID-19. Less frequently, it can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The disease has a broad spectrum ranging from mild illness to severe illness that can result in death (3). In a study analyzing the data of approximately 72,000 patients in China, it was reported that 81% of the patients had no lung involvement or minimal involvement, 14% had severe involvement, and 5% had respiratory failure, shock, or multiple organ failure (4). Attention is drawn to the long-term complications of COVID-19, such as myocarditis, heart failure, arrhythmia, dyspnea, oxygen dependence, impaired respiratory function tests, increased venous/arterial thromboembolism, decreased fitness, muscle and joint pain, increased anxiety-depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and renal damage (5). It has been emphasized that patients who have recovered from COVID-19, especially older individuals and those with severe illness, are at risk of sarcopenia (7). It has been suggested that in patients who have recovered from COVID-19, direct viral damage, decreased physical activity level, and malnutrition result in decreased fitness and sarcopenia, which could be associated with increased morbidity in cancer surgeries (8). It is reported that postoperative complications and deaths are higher in active COVID-19 patients than in those who do not have active disease (9). In a multicenter study, it was stated that postoperative pulmonary complications were observed in half of the patients who had COVID-19 during the perioperative period, and this condition was associated with high mortality. Most of these patients are those who need emergency surgical interventions (10). According to studies in the literature, COVID-19 has multi-systemic effects, and some of these effects continue in the long term. It has been shown that the perioperative period with COVID-19 positivity is associated with higher pulmonary complications and mortality. It has been suggested that having had COVID-19 in the past may lead to worse postoperative outcomes. The studies in the literature were mostly conducted on patients who had surgery during the perioperative period while having COVID-19. Most of the patients required emergency surgical interventions. The effect of the patients' functional level on postoperative outcomes has not been examined. Our study focuses on the intraoperative and postoperative period of thoracic surgery patients who underwent surgery in the long term after COVID-19.
The goal of this observational study is to compare Incidence of postoperative delirium in Sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic elderly patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. The main question it aims to answer are: • Effect of preoperative sarcopenia on postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery Participants will be evaluated preoperatively for sarcopenia and assessed for postoperative delirium, pain, etc.
The investigators aimed to determine intracranial pressure changes during spinal and general anesthesia by using optic nerve sheath diameter and near infrared spectrometer in urologic surgery patients in lithotomy position. Also the investigators plan to evaluate to measure intrathoracic pressure effects to intracranial pressure.
Using data from electroencephalogram (EEG) obtained through intraoperative depth of anesthesia monitoring devices, combined with clinical symptoms such as postoperative pain and delirium, investigate their correlation and verify whether intraoperative EEG spectral analysis can predict the occurrence of postoperative pain, nausea and vomiting, restlessness, or delirium in patients undergoing surgery.
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a significantly increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC). Protective ventilation of the lungs could reduce the rate of PPC in patients with COPD. It has been suggested that flow controlled ventilation (FCV) may be less invasive and more protective to the lungs than conventional ventilation in patients with COPD. The primary aim of this study is to determine a optimal individual ventilation setting for FCV in ten participants with COPD.