Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2007
Comparative StudyContinuous oximetry/capnometry monitoring reveals frequent desaturation and bradypnea during patient-controlled analgesia.
The most serious complication of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is respiratory depression (RD). The incidence of RD in the literature is derived from intermittent sampling of pulse oximetry (Spo(2)) and respiratory rate and defined as a deviation below an arbitrary threshold. ⋯ Our incidence of RD by bradypnea is significantly higher than the 1%-2% incidence in the literature, using the same threshold criteria but more stringent duration criteria, while our incidence of RD based on desaturation is consistent with previous estimates. We conclude that continuous respiratory monitoring is optimal for the safe administration of PCA, because any RD event can progress to respiratory arrest if undetected. Better alarm algorithms must be implemented to reduce the frequent alarms triggered by threshold criteria for RD.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2007
Comparative StudyAnesthetic preconditioning combined with postconditioning offers no additional benefit over preconditioning or postconditioning alone.
Recent investigations demonstrate that anesthetic preconditioning and postconditioning reduce myocardial infarct size to a degree comparable to that achieved with ischemic preconditioning. We hypothesized that the combination of sevoflurane preconditioning and postconditioning would result in greater preservation of myocardium. ⋯ Sevoflurane postconditioning is as effective as preconditioning in protecting myocardial function after global ischemia. The combination of sevoflurane preconditioning and postconditioning offered no additional benefit over either intervention alone.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2007
Comparative StudyThe anesthetic management of children with neonatal-onset multi-system inflammatory disease.
Neonatal-onset multi-system inflammatory disease (NOMID), a rare autosomal dominantly inherited disease, belongs to a growing spectrum of autoinflammatory diseases, is characterized by urticarial rash, arthropathy, and chronic aseptic meningitis, and is associated with mutations in the cold-induced autoinflammatory gene, CIAS1, the gene that encodes the protein, cryopyrin. As little is known about the anesthetic considerations of the disease, we sought to identify the main features and respective anesthetic and perioperative implications of NOMID. ⋯ This study is the first to investigate the anesthetic implications of NOMID, an autoinflammatory disease associated with arthropathy, recurrent fevers, urticarial rash, and chronic aseptic meningitis. While for the pediatric anesthesiologist, the presence of fever and aseptic meningitis might make the conduct of anesthetics for elective procedures less desirable, our findings suggest that without evidence of active infection, even in the presence of fever and chronic aseptic meningitis, general and regional anesthesia may be conducted in patients with NOMID without untoward complications.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2007
Comparative StudyVentilation-induced plethysmographic variations predict fluid responsiveness in ventilated postoperative cardiac surgery patients.
It has been shown that ventilation-induced pulse pressure variation (PPV) is a better variable than central venous pressure (CVP) or pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) for predicting cardiac output changes after fluid administration. The plethysmographic wave form measured with a fingertip pulse is very similar to the arterial blood pressure curve. ⋯ This study shows that VPV, like PPV, is a more reliable predictor of fluid responsiveness than CVP and PAOP.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Aug 2007
Comparative StudyAnesthetic-like modulation of a gamma-aminobutyric acid type A, strychnine-sensitive glycine, and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors by coreleased neurotransmitters.
A mechanism of anesthesia has recently been proposed which predicts that coreleased neurotransmitters may modulate neurotransmitter receptors for which they are not the native agonist in a manner similar to anesthetics. ⋯ These results show that neurotransmitters that are coreleased onto anesthetic-sensitive receptors may modulate the function of receptors for which they are not the native agonist via an anesthetic-like mechanism. These findings lend support to a recent theory of anesthetic action.