Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2001
Clinical TrialCombined spinal and epidural anesthesia with low doses of intrathecal bupivacaine in women with severe preeclampsia: a preliminary report.
The purpose of our study was to evaluate the quality of anesthesia for cesarean delivery (CD), analgesia for labor (LA), hemodynamic changes, and neonatal effects of combined spinal and epidural anesthesia (CSE) with low intrathecal doses of bupivacaine and fentanyl in patients with severe preeclampsia. ⋯ The results indicate that CSE with low intrathecal doses of bupivacaine and epidural supplementation, when needed, produces adequate anesthesia for CD and analgesia for labor in patients with severe preeclampsia. The maximum decreases in MAP after CSE were modest and quite similar in the 2 groups.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2001
Acute cigarette smoking reduces vasodilative effect induced by sympathetic block in dogs.
The aim of this study is to clarify the influence of acute cigarette smoking on vasodilation induced by sympathetic block. ⋯ Sympathetic block induces a significant increase of peripheral blood flow, but smoking produces a significant decrease in the blood flow in the SGB-induced dilated vessels.