Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Review GuidelinePediatric Airway Management in COVID-19 patients - Consensus Guidelines from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Pediatric Difficult Intubation Collaborative and the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society.
Pediatric airway management guidelines for COVID-19 patients relies upon non-clinical studies, infectious disease data and expert opinion.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyProspective Comparison of Preoperative Predictive Performance Between 3 Leading Frailty Instruments.
The Clinical Frailty Scale provides meaningful additional outcome prediction to traditional preoperative risk factors among non-cardiac surgery patients.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialIntravenous Lidocaine for the Prevention of Postoperative Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort in Male Patients Undergoing Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumors: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial.
Intraoperative intravenous lidocaine infusion reduces early catheter-related bladder pain and 24 hour opioid requirements in patients having transurethral resection of bladder tumours.
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In late December 2019, several cases of pneumonia of unknown origin were reported from China, which in early January 2020 were announced to be caused by a novel coronavirus. The virus was later denominated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and defined as the causal agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Despite massive attempts to contain the disease in China, the virus has spread globally, and COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Here we provide a short background on coronaviruses, and describe in more detail the novel SARS-CoV-2 and attempts to identify effective therapies against COVID-19.