Journal of anesthesia
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Journal of anesthesia · Dec 2015
Pain sensitivity: a feasible way to predict the intensity of stress reaction caused by endotracheal intubation and skin incision?
Recent studies have shown that pain sensitivity has a significant relationship with clinical pain and may also predict the intensity of pain and analgesic consumption after surgery. However, the correlation between pre-operative pain sensitivity and stress response during anesthesia has not been investigated. Therefore, we aimed to explore the relationship between pre-operative pain sensitivity and stress responses during intubation and skin incision in this study. ⋯ Pain tolerance had a significant relationship with stress response during intubation and skin incision. We may initially use pain tolerance to direct opioid usage in the future.
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Journal of anesthesia · Dec 2015
Early postoperative management of heart transplant recipients with current ventricular assist device support in Japan: experience from a single center.
This study reviews our experience with the perioperative management of heart transplant (HT) recipients and explores how prior ventricular assist device (VAD) support affects the requirements for postoperative mechanical ventilation and circulatory support. ⋯ HT recipients with VAD support required longer mechanical ventilation periods and mechanical circulatory support in the postoperative period.
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Journal of anesthesia · Dec 2015
Letter Case ReportsContinuous rocuronium administration for tracheomalacia.