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  1. Head fixation can induce hemodynamic instability. Remifentanil is commonly used with propofol for total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) during neurosurgery. This study investigated the 90% effective concentratio...

    Authors: Jung-Man Lee, Jae-Hyon Bahk, Young-Jin Lim, Jiwon Lee and Leerang Lim
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:136
  2. When encountering a difficult airway with an Airway Scope (AWS) a bougie can be inserted into the endotracheal tube in the AWS channel. The angulated tip of the bougie can be guided toward the glottis by rotat...

    Authors: Ichiro Takenaka, Kazuyoshi Aoyama, Tamao Iwagaki and Yukari Takenaka
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:133
  3. Traditionally, technical proficiency for spinal anesthesia has been assessed using observational scales such as global rating scales or task specific checklists. However more objective metrics are required in ...

    Authors: Marcia A. Corvetto, Carlos Fuentes, Andrea Araneda, Pablo Achurra, Pablo Miranda, Paola Viviani and Fernando R. Altermatt
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:131
  4. Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective adrenergic receptor agonist, which has a dose-dependent sedative hypnotic effect. Furthermore, it also has pharmacological properties, and the ability to inhibit sympathet...

    Authors: Wan-Wei Jiang, Qing-Hui Wang, Ya-Jing Liao, Pai Peng, Min Xu and Li-Xin Yin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:130
  5. Lubrication of cuffed tracheal tubes (CTTs) reduces liquid leakage. However, it is not clear how cuff lubrication influences air leakage. We aimed to test the hypothesis that pretreatment with K-Y jelly, a wat...

    Authors: Hiroko Nishioka, Yutaka Usuda, Go Hirabayashi, Koichi Maruyama and Tomio Andoh
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:129
  6. The effectiveness of a combination of a lipid emulsion with epinephrine in reversing local anesthetic-induced cardiac arrest has been confirmed. The combination of a lipid emulsion with levosimendan, was shown...

    Authors: Fubei Nan, Xixi Cai, Yingchao Ye, Xuzhong Xu, Zhengqian Li, Min Li and Limei Chen
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:128
  7. Postoperative sore throat (POST) is a common problem following endotracheal (ET) intubation during general anesthesia. The objective was to compare the incidence and severity of POST during routine intubation ...

    Authors: Mansoor Aqil, Mueen Ullah Khan, Saara Mansoor, Saad Mansoor, Rashid Saeed Khokhar and Abdul Sattar Narejo
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:127

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2018 18:112

  8. During facemask ventilation, gastric insufflation is defined as appearance of a comet-tail or an acoustic shadow on ultrasonography. Ultrasonographic measurement of antral cross-section area (CSA) may reflect ...

    Authors: Xiaowei Qian, Qiong Hu, Hang Zhao, Bo Meng, Yang Nan, Hong Cao, Qingquan Lian and Jun Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:126
  9. The Supreme™ and ProSeal™ laryngeal mask airways (LMAs) are widely used in paediatric anaesthesia; however, LMA use in infants is limited because many anaesthesiologists prefer to use tracheal intubation in in...

    Authors: Sibel Oba, Hacer Sebnem Turk, Canan Tulay Isil, Huseyin Erdogan, Pinar Sayin and Ali Ihsan Dokucu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:125
  10. There are growing concerns that anaesthetic exposure can cause extensive apoptotic degeneration of neurons and the impairment of normal synaptic development and remodelling. However, little attention has been ...

    Authors: Haiyun Guo, Zhengwu Peng, Liu Yang, Xue Liu, Yaning Xie, Yanhui Cai, Lize Xiong and Yi Zeng
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:124
  11. Isoflurane-induced neuroapoptosis and cognitive impairment has been previously reported. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been shown to be a neuromodulator that is thought to have anti-apoptotic, anti-inflammatory, and...

    Authors: Xueyuan Hu, Li Luan, Wei Guan, Shuai Zhang, Bei Li, Wei Ji and Honggang Fan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:123
  12. Noninvasive ventilation is used worldwide in many settings. Its effectiveness has been proven for common clinical conditions in critical care such as cardiogenic pulmonary edema and chronic obstructive pulmona...

    Authors: A. Cortegiani, V. Russotto, M. Antonelli, E. Azoulay, A. Carlucci, G. Conti, A. Demoule, M. Ferrer, N.S. Hill, S. Jaber, P. Navalesi, P. Pelosi, R. Scala and C. Gregoretti
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:122
  13. Authors: Fangfang Xia, Yun Xia, Sisi Chen, Lulu Chen, Weijuan Zhu, Yuanqing Chen, Thomas J. Papadimos, Xuzhong Xu and Le Liu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:121

    The original article was published in BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:83

  14. The majority of critically ill patients experience distress during their stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), resulting from systemic illness, multiple interventions and environmental factors. Providing huma...

    Authors: Katarzyna Kotfis, Małgorzata Zegan-Barańska, Maciej Żukowski, Krzysztof Kusza, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk and E. Wesley Ely
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:120
  15. Supraglottic airway devices (SGA) are commonly used in pediatric anesthesia and serve as primary or back-up devices for difficult airway management. Most SGA are marketed without proper clinical evaluation. Th...

    Authors: Maren Kleine-Brueggeney, Anne Gottfried, Sabine Nabecker, Robert Greif, Malte Book and Lorenz Theiler
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:119
  16. The role of increased body mass index (BMI) in sepsis is controversial. We aimed to evaluate the associations between overweight (25 kg/m2 < BMI ≤ 29.9 kg/m2), obese (30 kg/m2 < BMI ≤ 39.9 kg/m2) and morbidly obe...

    Authors: Sicong Wang, Xu Liu, Qixing Chen, Can Liu, Changshun Huang and Xiangming Fang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:118
  17. Mitochondria are the energy producing organelles practically in every human cell except erythrocytes. Indeed mitochondria are widespread in high energy requiring organs like brain, heart and muscles. Currently...

    Authors: Emmanuel Lilitsis, Elisavet Astyrakaki, Evaggelos Blevrakis, Sofia Xenaki, George Chalkiadakis and Emmanuel Chrysos
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:116
  18. Cor triloculare biventriculare accounts for approximately 0.31% of cases of congenital heart disease (CHD). Moreover, people with cor triloculare biventriculare always have shorter life spans, and cases of ges...

    Authors: Yuan Han, Zhenfeng Zhang, Qingchun Sun, Ke Ding, Liu Han, Mengmeng Dong, Yifan Xu and Lei Ge
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:115
  19. Seizure duration in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is positively related with patients’ outcome. This study sought to investigate the impact of anesthetic management on seizure duration, and the impact of sel...

    Authors: Alexander Tzabazis, Michaela E. Wiernik, Jan Wielopolski, Wolfgang Sperling, Harald Ihmsen, Hubert J. Schmitt and Tino Münster
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:114
  20. The role of non-infective inflammatory response (IR) in the aetiology of postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is still controversial. The aim of this controlled, prospective observational study was to as...

    Authors: Endre Nemeth, Katalin Vig, Kristof Racz, Kinga B. Koritsanszky, Klara I. Ronkay, Fumiko P. Hamvas, Csaba Borbély, Ajandek Eory, Bela Merkely and Janos Gal
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:113
  21. Ketamine is a frequently used intravenous anesthetic, which can reversibly induce loss of consciousness (LOC). Previous studies have demonstrated that thalamocortical system is critical for information transmi...

    Authors: Bao Fu, Chengxi Liu, Yajun Zhang, Xiaoyun Fu, Lin Zhang and Tian Yu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:111
  22. Acute pain and systemic opioids may both negatively impact respiratory function after cardiac surgery. This study analyzes the local practice of using intrathecal morphine analgesia (ITMA) with minimal parente...

    Authors: Christoph Ellenberger, Tornike Sologashvili, Krishnan Bhaskaran and Marc Licker
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:109
  23. In the postoperative period, immediate recovery of muscular power is essential for patient safety, but this can be affected by anaesthetic drugs, opioids and neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA). In this cohor...

    Authors: Martin Zoremba, Dennis Kornmann, Benjamin Vojnar, Rene Burchard, Thomas Wiesmann, Hinnerk Wulf and Thomas Kratz
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:108
  24. Adequate muscle relaxation is important for ensuring optimal conditions for intubation. Although acceleromyography of the adductor pollicis muscle is commonly used to assess conditions for intubation, we hypot...

    Authors: Stefan Soltesz, Christian Stark, Karl G. Noé, Michael Anapolski and Thomas Mencke
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:106
  25. It is skeptical about cardioprotective property of sevoflurane in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, especially in the elderly patients with coronary heart disease. We hypothesized that long duration of s...

    Authors: Yunlong Zhang, Wendong Lin, Sheliang Shen, Hongfa Wang, Xiaona Feng and Jiehao Sun
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:104
  26. Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) after hysterectomy has been recognized as a major clinical problem in the Western World. Reports on post-hysterectomy pain are relatively scarce in China. The aim of the curre...

    Authors: Chao Han, Zhijun Ge, Wenjie Jiang, Hailong Zhao and Tieliang Ma
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:103
  27. Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) leads to surgical complications and increases length of stay. IPH rates are high with the current standard of care, forced air warming (FAW). Our hypothesis is that ...

    Authors: Peter Luke Santa Maria, Chloe Santa Maria, Andreas Eisenried, Nathalia Velasquez, Brian Thomas Kannard, Abhinav Ramani, David Mark Kahn, Amanda Jane Wheeler and John Gerhard Brock-Utne
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:102
  28. Quantitative neuromuscular monitoring is the gold standard to detect postoperative residual curarization (PORC). Many anesthesiologists, however, use insensitive, qualitative neuromuscular monitoring or unreli...

    Authors: Christoph Unterbuchner, Manfred Blobner, Friedrich Pühringer, Matthias Janda, Sebastian Bischoff, Berthold Bein, Annette Schmidt, Kurt Ulm, Viktor Pithamitsis and Heidrun Fink
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:101
  29. It is important to inform medical educators and workforce planners in Anaesthesia about early career choices for the specialty, factors that influence them and to elucidate how recent choices of men and women ...

    Authors: Beatrice Emmanouil, Michael J. Goldacre and Trevor W. Lambert
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:100
  30. Preoperative frailty predicts adverse postoperative outcomes. Despite the advantages of incorporating frailty assessment into surgical settings, there is limited research on surgical healthcare professionals’ ...

    Authors: Gilgamesh Eamer, Jennifer A. Gibson, Chelsia Gillis, Amy T. Hsu, Marian Krawczyk, Emily MacDonald, Reid Whitlock and Rachel G. Khadaroo
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:99
  31. The aim of the present work was to assess cerebral hemodynamic changes in a porcine model of E.coli induced fulminant sepsis.

    Authors: Levente Molnár, Norbert Németh, Mariann Berhés, Endre Hajdú, Lóránd Papp, Ábel Molnár, Judit Szabó, Ádám Deák and Béla Fülesdi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:98
  32. Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are often physically unable to communicate with their physicians. Thus, the sharing of information about the on-going treatment of the patients in ICUs is directly relat...

    Authors: Faruk Cicekci, Numan Duran, Bunyamin Ayhan, Sule Arican, Omur Ilban, Iskender Kara, Melda Turkoglu, Fatma Yildirim, Ismail Hasirci, Adnan Karaibrahimoglu and Inci Kara
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:97
  33. At many academic institutions, anesthesiology residents are responsible for managing emergent intubations outside of the operating room (OOOR), with complications estimated to be as high as 39%. In order to cr...

    Authors: Lauryn R. Rochlen, Michelle Housey, Ian Gannon, Shannon Mitchell, Deborah M. Rooney, Alan R. Tait and Milo Engoren
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:96
  34. Shared decision-making (SDM) seeks to involve both patients and clinicians in decision-making about possible health management strategies, using patients’ preferences and best available evidence. SDM seems rea...

    Authors: F. E. Stubenrouch, E. M. K. Mus, J. W. Lut, E. M. Hesselink and D. T. Ubbink
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:95
  35. Mitochondrial myopathies represent a group of disorders caused by mitochondrial defects that disrupt energy production. Most patients have issues from infancy to early childhood. Pregnancy in women with mitoch...

    Authors: Qiang Zheng, Penghui Wei, Jinfeng Zhou, Haipeng Zhou, Fucheng Ji, Wenxi Tang and Jianjun Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:94
  36. Structural aspects and current practice about end-of-life (EOL) decisions in German intensive care units (ICUs) managed by anesthesiologists are unknown. A survey among intensive care anesthesiologists has bee...

    Authors: Manfred Weiss, Andrej Michalsen, Anke Toenjes, Franz Porzsolt, Thomas Bein, Marc Theisen, Alexander Brinkmann, Heinrich Groesdonk, Christian Putensen, Friedhelm Bach and Dietrich Henzler
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:93
  37. Oscillations of the arterial partial pressure of oxygen induced by varying shunt fractions occur during cyclic alveolar recruitment within the injured lung. Recently, these were proposed as a pathomechanism th...

    Authors: Rainer Thomas, Christian Möllmann, Alexander Ziebart, Tanghua Liu, Matthias David and Erik K. Hartmann
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:92
  38. High post-operative pain scores after “minor” orthopedic/trauma surgery are in part attributed to inadequate prescription of opioid analgesics. Novel concepts aiming to achieve sufficient analgesia while minim...

    Authors: Gertrud Haeseler, Dirk Schaefers, Natalie Prison, Jörg Ahrens, Xiaofei Liu and Annika Karch
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:91
  39. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a rare neurological disorder that is caused by the production of antibodies against NMDARs. As many anaesthetic drugs interact with NMDARs and may wor...

    Authors: Lei Ding, Hongyu Tan, Ziyu Li, Jiafu Ji and Xuejun Song
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2017 17:90

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