The oral cannabinoid dronabinol has similar psychoactive effects to smoking marijuana.
Subparaneural injection for popliteal sciatic nerve block shows faster onset and longer duration than circumferential extraneural injection.
Perioperative pregabalin may improve postoperative analgesia, nausea and vomiting, though increases sedation and visual disturbances
Performing regional anesthetic blocks in children under general anesthesia is as safe as in sedated or awake children.
Suggestive techniques may reduce postoperative anxiety and pain, although not analgesic consumption or nausea.
After total knee joint replacement, surgical infiltration with local anaesthesia gives better analgesia with fewer side effects than intrathecal morphine.
The use of a cognitive aid improves the performance of non-technical skills during simulated 'can't intubate, can't oxygenate' crisis.
Quadriceps strength is better preserved after adductor canal block for total knee arthroplasty than femoral nerve block with similar analgesic effect.
Cyclosporine administered at the time of cardiac reperfusion may reduce reperfusion injury from CPB, although with uncertain clinical benefit.
Desflurane and sevoflurane anaesthesia may be associated with reduced mortality after cardiac surgery compared with total intravenous anaesthesia.
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