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Filter by:Levodopa is a precursor of dopamine and is the treatment of choice to treat the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD); however, the effect of levodopa on cardiovascular autonomic function in PD is poorly understood. Orthostatic hypotension has been documented as a potential side effect of levodopa. As a result, clinicians may be reluctant to prescribe levodopa in patients with PD with neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (PD+OH), which leads to suboptimal management of motor symptoms. On the other hand, other studies failed to show any clear relationship between levodopa and orthostatic hypotension in patients with PD. Important limitations of prior studies include the lack of detailed investigation of baroreflex cardiovagal and sympathetic noradrenergic functions and the fact that the same patients were not tested on and off levodopa. The investigators propose to investigate the effects of levodopa on cardiovascular autonomic function in patients with PD+OH and PD without neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (PD-OH) by performing standardized autonomic testing in the same patients on and off levodopa.
In this study investigators will explore the association between intraoperative arterial hypotension and cerebral oxygen saturation in patients scheduled for major abdominal surgery. Investigators will assign patients to control or interventional group. In this last group arterial hypotension will be avoided based on a HPI (Hypotension Predictive Index) protocol. In the control group arterial hypotension will be promptly treated according to hemodynamic variables.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ED50 and ED90 for an effective 6% Hydroxyethyl starch (130/0.4) or crystalloid coload combined with prophylactic norepinephrine infusion dose for postspinal anesthesia hypotension in patients undergoing cesarean section.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of ondansetron for postspinal anesthesia hypotension in patients undergoing cesarean section.
All preoperative cardiac medications will be continued till the morning of the surgery, except angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors. Patients will be pre-medicated with intramuscular morphine at 0.1 mg.kg-1 one hour before surgery. Upon arrival to the operating room, Initial monitoring included five lead electrocardiograms, non-invasive blood pressure, and pulse oximetry. At the attending anesthetists discretion, intravenous midazolam (0.05 mg/kg) will be administered for anxiolysis. Under local anesthesia an arterial line will be placed in the right radial artery and central venous line will be placed in the right internal jugular vein. Before induction of anesthesia for all study patients, Electrical cardiometry device (ICON; Cardiotonic, Osypka; Berlin, Germany) will be applied to the patient through 4 electrodes at the following sites: Below the left ear, Above the midpoint of the left clavicle, Left mid-axillary line at level of the xiphoid process and 5 cm inferior to the third electrode. Stroke volume variability (SVV) was measured while patient maintaining standard calm breathing at 8 breath/minute for one-minute. Patients with SVV less than 13% will be excluded from the study. Thus, all patients included will be considered fluid responders[5]. The baseline data in the form of heart rate, systolic, diastolic, and mean systemic arterial pressures, CO, CI, SV, SVI, SVV, SVR, and SVRI will be recorded during the study period in all the patients. Patients will then be randomly divided into two groups; control group will receive nothing before induction, while patients in volume loading group will receive volume loading of 8ml/kg Ringer acetate over 10 minutes. The volume loading will be repeated until SVV would be below 13%. The volume loading would be given by an anesthesia resident not involved in data collection. For induction, Patients in both groups will receive 3 mcg/kg of fentanyl. Then in all patients, propofol will be injected slowly at 1.5 mg/kg in 0.25 mg/kg increments every 20 s till clinical loss of consciousness. Clinical loss of consciousness (defined as no response to auditory command) will be assessed by asking the patients repeatedly every 20 s to open their eyes. After loss of consciousness, atracurium 0.5 mg/kg will be administered to facilitate tracheal intubation. The stress response to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation is secondary to marked increase in sympathetic activity and manifested in general as tachycardia and hypertension and will be managed with increments 0..25mcg fentanyl. Hemodynamic changes; 20 beats/ minute or 20 mmHg difference in heart rate and blood pressure respectively were considered to be significant. Anesthesia will be maintained by isoflurane (1-1.2 %). Patients will be mechanically ventilated to have target of PO2 above 300mmhg and PCO2 between 35-40mmg. Any episode of hypotension (defined as mean arterial pressure [MAP] < 80% of the baseline reading and/or MAP <60 mmHg) will be managed by 5 mcg norepinephrine (which could be repeated if hypotension persists for 2 minutes). If bradycardia occurred (defined as heart rate less than 50 bpm), it will be managed by IV atropine bolus (0.5 mg). Hemodynamic data will be recorded 1-minte before the induction, 1-and 2-minutes after loss of consciousness, 1-minutes after intubation, then every 2-minutes for 15-minutes after intubation., the end point of the present study. Throughout this period the lungs will be mechanically ventilated with 50% air-oxygen mixture, to maintain an end-tidal carbon dioxide between 35 and 40 mmHg.
In order to evaluate the efficacy and necessity of continuous non-invasive arterial pressure (CNAP) by comparing it with non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) in order to understand whether it has advantages over oscillometric technique for detection of hypotensive episodes in healthy pregnant women who underwent cesarean section (C/S) under neuraxial anesthesia. This prospective study will evaluate healthy pregnant women at term, who were scheduled for elective C/S under spinal anesthesia. Subjects were randomly assigned into 2 groups to receive either CNAP and NIBP or only NIBP. A thirty percent decrease in systolic blood pressure from either baseline or the measured values in the first two minutes, or if the systolic blood pressure was less than 90mmHg, is considered hypotension. Pre-, peri- and post-operative specifications, newborn characteristics, and complications were recorded and compared.
In this study, the effects of nicardipine and esmolol applied for controlled hypotension in rhinoplasty on hemodynamics and regional renal oxygenation will be investigated.
Maternal hypotension during C section has been reported due to aortocaval compression (ACC) by full term uterus in supine position. This study aimed at reporting the effect of left tilt on maternal hemodynamics.
Hypotension is a common side-effect of general anesthesia induction, and is related to adverse outcomes, including a significantly increased risk of one-year mortality. Hypovolemia is a significant risk factor, and optimized fluid therapy remains the cornerstone of its treatment. Ultrasound measurements of inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter with respiration have been recommended as rapid and noninvasive methods for estimating volume status. Several recent studies reported that preoperative IVC ultrasound has a reliable predicting ability of arterial hypotension after the induction of general anesthesia. The practical effect of optimizing fluid status before surgery using this ability has not been studied. Our hypothesis is that preoperative ultrasound-guided intravenous fluid bolus administration may reduce the incidence of hypotension after the induction of general anesthesia in adults presenting for elective non-cardiac, non-obstetric surgery
Investigators will conduct a pragmatic randomized trial to investigate the non-inferiority of restricted use of invasive arterial lines compared to standard arterial line use.