Anesthesiology
-
Editorial Comment
Succinylcholine should be avoided in patients on statin therapy.
-
Historical Article
The Cooper-Dennis "process for administering anaesthetics".
-
Randomized Controlled Trial
Ultrasound imaging facilitates spinal anesthesia in adults with difficult surface anatomic landmarks.
Poor surface anatomic landmarks are highly predictive of technical difficulty in neuraxial blockade. The authors examined the use of ultrasound imaging to reduce this difficulty. ⋯ Preprocedural ultrasound imaging facilitates the performance of spinal anesthesia in the nonobstetric patient population with difficult anatomic landmarks.