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  1. Double lumen tube (DLT) intubation is the most commonly used technique for one lung ventilation. Bronchial blockers (BB) are an alternative, especially for difficult airways. The EZ-bronchial blocker (EZB) is ...

    Authors: Joachim Risse, Karsten Szeder, Ann-Kristin Schubert, Thomas Wiesmann, Hanns-Christian Dinges, Carsten Feldmann, Hinnerk Wulf and Karl Matteo Meggiolaro
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:92
  2. Apart from conventional reusable bronchoscopes, single-use bronchoscopes (SUB) were recently introduced. Data suggest that SUB might prevent from the risk of cross contamination (i.e. multiresistant pathogens,...

    Authors: Pischtaz Adel Tariparast, Andrés Brockmann, Rainer Hartwig, Stefan Kluge and Jörn Grensemann
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:90
  3. A peripheral venous catheter (PVC) is the most widely used device for obtaining vascular access, allowing the administration of fluids and medication. Up to 25% of adult patients, and 50% of pediatric patients...

    Authors: Rudolf Mörgeli, Katrin Schmidt, Tim Neumann, Jochen Kruppa, Ulrich Föhring, Pascal Hofmann, Peter Rosenberger, Elke Falk, Willehad Boemke and Claudia Spies
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:88
  4. Urosepsis is an infectious complication after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). This study aimed to analyze the perioperative factors related to urosepsis after PCNL for upper urinary calculi and establish ...

    Authors: Jie Gu, Jun Liu, Yang Hong, Yi Feng and Xiaobo Huang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:87
  5. The erector spinae plane (ESP) block requires a large volume of local anesthetic to provide effective analgesia, which has the potential to cause local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST). Adjunctive epinephri...

    Authors: Hiroe Shigeta, Rie Yasumura and Yoshifumi Kotake
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:86
  6. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an advanced endoscopic procedure and requires deep sedation. Deep sedation with dexmedetomidine for the respiratory drive preserved has become popular i...

    Authors: Mo Chen, Yi Sun, Xueyan Li, Chun Zhang, Xiaochen Huang, Yiming Xu and Chengyong Gu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:85
  7. This study investigates the effects of COMTval158met gene polymorphism on maternal anxiety and pain during delivery and on the analgesic and anxiety efficacy of dexmedetomidine during delivery.

    Authors: Li-Jia Tang, Jiang Han, Yi-Juan Feng, Cui-Xia Pu and Ying Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:84
  8. Oscillometric, non-invasive blood pressure measurement (NIBP) is the first choice of blood pressure monitoring in the majority of low and moderate risk surgeries. In patients with morbid obesity, however, it i...

    Authors: Jonathan Hansen, Markus Pohlmann, Jan H. Beckmann, Phil Klose, Matthias Gruenewald, Jochen Renner, Ulf Lorenzen and Gunnar Elke
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:83
  9. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most common complications in patients undergoing open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. Dopamine has been frequently used in these patients to prevent AKI. We aime...

    Authors: Seohee Lee, Dongnyeok Park, Jae-Woo Ju, Jinyoung Bae, Youn Joung Cho, Karam Nam and Yunseok Jeon
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:82
  10. High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is a new type of oxygen therapy, but its application in surgery remains unclear, we tried to describe the application of HFNC in microlaryngoscopic surgery for the Chinese popula...

    Authors: Bo Ma, Fei Liu, Dandan Wang, Ruihan Zhong, Kaihao Lin, Shuo Li, Jie Zhang and Chaoyang Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:81
  11. A superior analgesic method in perioperative pain-management of patients receiving total knee arthroplasty is the subject of controversial debate. Although higher cost-efficiency is claimed for the local infil...

    Authors: Michael Borck, Jan D. Wandrey, Moritz Höft, Joanna Kastelik, Carsten Perka, Sascha Tafelski and Sascha Treskatsch
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:80
  12. The present study aimed to evaluate the association between normalized lactate load, an index that incorporates the magnitude of change and the time interval of such evolution of lactate, and 28-day mortality ...

    Authors: Han Chen, Shu-Rong Gong and Rong-Guo Yu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:79
  13. The aim of this study is to evaluate cardiovascular and respiratory effects of intrathoracic pressure overshoot (higher than insufflation pressure) in patients who underwent thoracoscopic esophagectomy procedu...

    Authors: Yunqin Ren, Xing Zhu, Hong Yan, Liyong Chen and Qingxiang Mao
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:76
  14. Although the incidence of postoperative delirium (POD) in the elderly after surgery are rising as individuals are living longer, the pathogenesis of POD remains poorly understood. It has been suggested that mi...

    Authors: Bin Wang, Zeng Yin, Yanan Lin, Xiyuan Deng, Fanghao Liu, He Tao, Rui Dong, Xu Lin and Yanlin Bi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:75
  15. Anaemia is common prior to cardiac surgery and contributes to perioperative morbidity. Iron deficiency is the main cause of anaemia but its impact remains controversial in the surgical setting. We aimed to est...

    Authors: Baptiste Gaudriot, Jean-Ferreol Oilleau, Thomas Kerforne, Claude Ecoffey, Olivier Huet, Alexandre Mansour, Jean-Philippe Verhoye, Nicolas Massart and Nicolas Nesseler
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:74
  16. Tracheal resection and reconstruction are the most effective treatments for tracheal stenosis, but the difficulties are surgery and maintaining ventilation performed on the patient’s same airway. High-flow oxy...

    Authors: Nguyen Minh Ly, Ngo Van Dinh, Dinh Thi Thu Trang, Ngo Vi Hai and Tong Xuan Hung
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:73
  17. Driving pressure (ΔP = Plateau pressure-PEEP) is highly correlated with postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) and appears to be a promising indicator for optimizing ventilator settings. We hypothesized ...

    Authors: Qi Xu, Xiao Guo, Jiang liu, Si-xun Li, Hai-rui Ma, Fei-xiang Wang and Jing-yan Lin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:72
  18. Rhomboid intercostal block (RIB) is a new regional anesthesia technique that provides postoperative analgesia for breast surgery and thoracoscopic surgery. The published papers are not yet fully integrated and...

    Authors: Ruirong Chen, Sheng Su and Haihua Shu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:71

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  19. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, might present difficulties in achieving postoperative analgesia. Prior studies have suggested that patients wit...

    Authors: Sayaka Tsuboi, Kazumi Kubota, Takahiro Mihara, Masataka Taguri, Gaku Inagawa and Takahisa Goto
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:70
  20. Intraoperative hypotension (IOH) during non-cardiac surgery is common and associated with major adverse kidney, neurological and cardiac events and even death. Given that IOH is a modifiable risk factor for th...

    Authors: Laurence Weinberg, Stephanie Ying Li, Maleck Louis, Jadon Karp, Nadia Poci, Bradly Samuel Carp, Lachlan Fraser Miles, Patrick Tully, Robert Hahn, Dharshi Karalapillai and Dong-Kyu Lee
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:69
  21. Cardiopulmonary bypass-related myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is a major contributor to postoperative morbidity. Although transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) has been found to have cardi...

    Authors: Youn Joung Cho, Dhong-Eun Jung, Karam Nam, Jinyoung Bae, Seohee Lee and Yunseok Jeon
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:68
  22. The novel distal radial artery (dRA) approach is a popular arterial access route for interventional cardiology and neurointerventions. We explored the dRA as an alternative site to the classic forearm radial a...

    Authors: Jingwei Xiong, Kangli Hui, Miaomiao Xu, Jiejie Zhou, Jie Zhang and Manlin Duan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:67
  23. This study aimed to examine the correlation between thyroid hormone and prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) in adult critically ill patients having undergone cardiac surgery.

    Authors: Xiao Shen, Jiakui Sun, Liang Hong, Xiaochun Song, Cui Zhang, Ying Liu, Han Liu, Guojian Li and Xinwei Mu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:66
  24. Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) grafting surgery is accompanied by severe pain. Although continuous intercostal nerve block (CINB) has become one of the multimodal analgesic technique...

    Authors: Youxiu Yao and Mao Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:64
  25. The validation of inferior vena cava (IVC) respiratory variation for predicting volume responsiveness is still under debate, especially in spontaneously breathing patients. The present study aims to verify the...

    Authors: Qian Ma, Xueduo Shi, Jingjing Ji, Luning Chen, Yali Tian, Jing Hao and Bingbing Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:63
  26. The application of a surgical face mask over oxygen delivery devices is now a widespread recommendation in the setting of the Coronavirus disease pandemic. This addition is designed to reduce droplet spread, b...

    Authors: Kate Brown-Beresford, John Currie and Venkatesan Thiruvenkatarajan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:62
  27. Elderly patients undergoing colonoscopy with propofol as sedation are prone to respiratory or cardiovascular complications. Intravenous lidocaine has analgesic efficacy and reduces propofol consumption during ...

    Authors: Meizhen Li, Weiqi Ke and Shaohui Zhuang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:61
  28. The benzodiazepine midazolam is a γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-A receptor agonist frequently used for sedation or stress control in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, experimental stu...

    Authors: Anne Sebastiani, Simone Bender, Michael K. E. Schäfer and Serge C. Thal
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:60
  29. Data on the lung respiratory mechanics and gas exchange in the time course of COVID-19-associated respiratory failure is limited. This study aimed to explore respiratory mechanics and gas exchange, the lung re...

    Authors: Andrey I. Yaroshetskiy, Sergey N. Avdeev, Mikhail E. Politov, Pavel V. Nogtev, Victoria G. Beresneva, Yury D. Sorokin, Vasily D. Konanykhin, Anna P. Krasnoshchekova, Zamira M. Merzhoeva, Natalia A. Tsareva, Natalia V. Trushenko, Irina A. Mandel and Andrey G. Yavorovskiy
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:59
  30. Standardized risk assessment tools can be used to identify patients at higher risk for postoperative complications and death. In this study, we validate the PreOperative Score to predict Post-Operative Mortali...

    Authors: Annick Stolze, Ewoudt M. W. van de Garde, Linda M. Posthuma, Markus W. Hollmann, Dianne de Korte-de Boer, Valérie M. Smit-Fun, Wolfgang F. F. A. Buhre, Christa Boer and Peter G. Noordzij
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:58
  31. Assessment of appropriate anesthetic depth is crucial to prevent harm to patients. Unnecessary deep anesthesia can be harmful, potentially causing acute renal failure, myocardial injury, delirium, and an incre...

    Authors: Hilde Strand, Ann Charlott Elshaug, Øyvind Bernersen and Randi Ballangrud
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:57
  32. Forced-air warming (FAW) is an effective method of preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH). However, its warming effects can be influenced by the style and position of the FAW blanket. This stud...

    Authors: Wenchao Yin, Qihai Wan, Haibin Jia, Xue Jiang, Chunqiong Luo and Lan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:55
  33. Perioperative opioid use is associated with postoperative bowel dysfunction, which causes longer hospital stay and higher healthcare costs. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the equivalent doses of...

    Authors: Minna Guo, Shijiang Liu, Jian Gao, Chuanbao Han, Chun Yang and Cunming Liu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:53
  34. Physiologic narrowing of the central airway occurs during expiration. Conditions in which this narrowing becomes excessive are referred to as expiratory central airway collapse. Expiratory central airway colla...

    Authors: Guillaume Gaggini, Link-Mathieu Nkamicaniye, Sabrina Meyer and Philippe E. Dubois
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:50
  35. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common complication of cesarean section. S-ketamine given intravenously during surgery can help prevent PPD. However, whether S-ketamine in patient-controlled intravenous analg...

    Authors: Yaqian Han, Pule Li, Mengrong Miao, Yuan Tao, Xia Kang and Jiaqiang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:49
  36. Immediate postoperative pain in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is common. Titration of opioid is the most popular strategy for controlling early postoperative pain. ABO blood group has been found to be as...

    Authors: Sasikaan Nimmaanrat, Alan Geater, Prae Plunsangkate, Laortip Saewong, Orarat Karnjanawanichkul, Thavat Chanchayanon and Ngamjit Pattaravit
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:48
  37. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has been increasingly used to treat patients with biliary/pancreatic duct obstruction or stricture outside the operating room. Effective and safe sedation ...

    Authors: Peiqi Wang, Yan Chen, Ying Guo, Jiangbei Cao, Hong Wang, Weidong Mi and Longhe Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:47
  38. There are limited data to detail the perioperative anesthetic management and the incidence of postoperative respiratory complications among patients requiring an anesthetic procedure while being SARS-CoV-2 pos...

    Authors: Arthur James, Audrey De Jong, Thomas Jeanmougin, Antonia Blanie, Samy Figueiredo, Pierre Goffin, Morgan Le Guen, Elie Kantor, Flora Cipriani, Sébastien Campion, Mathieu Raux, Samir Jaber, Emmanuel Futier and Jean-Michel Constantin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:46
  39. Heart rate (HR) related parameters, such as HR variability, HR turbulence, resting HR, and nighttime mean HR have been recognized as independent predictors of mortality. However, the influence of circadian cha...

    Authors: Jingjing Zhang, Linyun Du, Jiamei Li, Ruohan Li, Xuting Jin, Jiajia Ren, Ya Gao and Xiaochuang Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:45
  40. Perioperative hypothermia is a common occurrence, particularly with the elderly and pediatric age groups. Hypothermia is associated with an increased risk of perioperative complications. One method of preventi...

    Authors: Danielle K. Bayoro, Herman Groepenhoff, Daniel Hoolihan, Edward A. Rose, Michael J. Pedro and Andreas D. Waldmann
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:44
  41. Loss of resistance (LOR) for epidural catheter placement has been utilized for almost a century. LOR is a subjective endpoint associated with a high failure rate. Nerve stimulation (NS) has been described as a...

    Authors: Sean Wayne Dobson, Robert Stephen Weller, Christopher Edwards, James David Turner, Jonathan Douglas Jaffe, Jon Wellington Reynolds and Daryl Steven Henshaw
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:43
  42. Simulation-based training is a clinical skill learning method that can replicate real-life situations in an interactive manner. In our study, we compared a novel hybrid learning method with conventional simula...

    Authors: Aida Mankute, Laima Juozapaviciene, Justinas Stucinskas, Zilvinas Dambrauskas, Paulius Dobozinskas, Elizabeth Sinz, David L. Rodgers, Mantas Giedraitis and Dinas Vaitkaitis
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:42
  43. The study aimed at exploring an optimal temperature model of forced air warming during the first hour after induction and intraoperation to prevent hyperthermia for elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic abd...

    Authors: Jingyu Wang, Ping Fang, Gangqiang Sun and Ming Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2022 22:40

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