Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
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A 43-year-old man (166 cm, 53.5 kg) with cerebral palsy on maintenance hemodialysis underwent a right nephrectomy for gross hematuria under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia (CSEA) with sedation. The patient suffered from hemiplegia, speech disturbance and low intelligence (approximately 6 years and 8 months). Following premedication with midazolam 4 mg, he was calm and cooperative. ⋯ Three hours after surgery, sleep was induced by brotizolam 0.25 mg orally. We accomplished a giant nephrectomy under CSEA with sedation in a patient with cerebral palsy receiving hemodialysis. Sufficient premedication using midazolam was profitable for CSEA in mental-retarded patient.
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Perioperative mortality and morbidity in Japan for the year 2000 were studied retrospectively. Committee on Operating Room Safety of Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA) sent confidential questionnaires to 794 Certified Training Hospitals of JSA and received answers from 67.6% of the hospitals. We analyzed their answers with a special reference to the age group. ⋯ Its mortality rate in each group was 0.00, 0.00, 0.21, 0.14, 0.06, 0.04, or 0.00. There were eleven cases of death or vegetative state due to anesthetic management, like improper management of airway and overdose of anesthetics. Some of them were preventable with the anesthesiologists' effort in protocol development and skilled assistance.
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Case Reports
[Spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine for a patient with a history of severe leg pain after intrathecal dibucaine].
An 87-year-old man was scheduled for the 11th transurethral bladder tumor resection (TURBT). He had a history of non-active syphilis for 21 years, diabetes mellitus for 7 years, and severe emphysema. Preoperative physical examination of the lower extremities, revealed loss of knee-jerk reflex, and loss of vibratory and proprioceptive perception. ⋯ Therefore we planned spinal anesthesia using 0.5% bupivacaine, 2.0 ml. This time, he did not complain of leg pain during anesthesia, and postoperative conditions were satisfactory. We can conclude that bupivacaine is very useful for spinal anesthesia especially in patients with a history of leg pain by spinal anesthesia with dibucaine.
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We experienced four cases of craniotomy in which motor evoked potential (MEP) and somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) were monitored alternately. Anesthesia was induced with propofol and fentanyl, and it was maintained with continuous infusion of propofol. ⋯ We could obtain the largest amplitude of MEP using five consecutive stimuli of which duration and frequency were 0.5 milliseconds and 500 Hz, respectively. Anesthetic management using propofol and fentanyl is useful for craniotomy with monitoring of MEP and SEP.
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The aim of this study is to examine the duration and magnitude of vasodilating effect induced by sympathetic block with the addition of different concentrations of clonidine to mepivacaine. ⋯ Sympathetic block with the addition of clonidine to local anesthetics increases both duration and magnitude of its vasodilating effect. However, sympathetic block with the addition of higher doses of clonidine to local anesthetics may induce shorter duration and lower magnitude of vasodilating effect compared with local anesthetics alone.