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  1. The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is occasionally used in internal fixation of rib fractures. We evaluated the feasibility of general anesthesia with an LMA associated to a thoracic paravertebral block (TPB) and...

    Authors: Jun Cao, Xiaoyun Gao, Xiaoli Zhang, Jing Li and Junfeng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:170
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  2. In the previous randomized controlled trial by our research group, we evaluated the effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) in 130 patients (65 per arm) on acute kidney injury (AKI) within 7 days of o...

    Authors: Yimeng Chen, Guyan Wang, Hui Zhou, Lijing Yang, Congya Zhang, Xiying Yang and Guiyu Lei
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:169
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. YouTube™ (“YouTube”) is often used as an educational tool to instruct anesthesia providers on regional anesthesia nerve blocks. However, there is no current objective standard to assess the educational quality...

    Authors: George L. Tewfik, Adam N. Work, Steven M. Shulman and Patrick Discepola
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:168
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Individualized treatment is a common principle in hospitals. Treatment decisions are made based on the patient’s condition, including comorbidities. This principle is equally relevant out-of-hospital. Furtherm...

    Authors: Kristin Tønsager, Marius Rehn, Andreas J. Krüger, Jo Røislien and Kjetil G. Ringdal
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:167
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. To investigate the effect of intravenous injection of dexmedetomidine combined with parecoxib sodium on sedation and anxiety and stress response of tracheal intubation in patients undergoing functional endosco...

    Authors: Xiaoxia Gu, Xiujuan Tan, Jinxian Chen, Jingjing Wang, Yue Lu and Liangqing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:166
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  6. This study analyzed remnant kidney function recovery in living donors after laparoscopic nephrectomy to establish a risk stratification model for delayed recovery and further investigated clinically modifiable...

    Authors: Jaesik Park, Minju Kim, Yong Hyun Park, Misun Park, Jung-Woo Shim, Hyung Mook Lee, Yong-Suk Kim, Young Eun Moon, Sang Hyun Hong and Min Suk Chae
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:165
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Embolic stroke is a common complication of atrial myxoma, whereas multiple cerebral aneurysms associated with atrial myxoma is rare. The pathogenesis of the cerebral vascular disease related to an atrial myxom...

    Authors: Ran Zhang, Zhiyu Tang, Qing Qiao, Feroze Mahmood and Yi Feng
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:164
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  8. A mouth gag is usually used during tonsillectomy and adenotonsillectomy surgeries, cleft palate repair, obstructive sleep apnea surgery, and intraoral tumor excision. The placement of the gag causes hemodynami...

    Authors: Başak Altiparmak, Melike Korkmaz Toker, Ali İhsan Uysal, Sabri Köseoğlu and Semra Gümüş Demirbilek
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:163
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The choice of anesthesia technique remains debatable in patients undergoing surgical repair of hip fracture. This meta-analysis was performed to compare the effect of neuraxial (epidural/spinal) versus general...

    Authors: Xinxun Zheng, Yuming Tan, Yuan Gao and Zhiheng Liu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:162
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament (OALL) of the cervical spine is a common, but rarely symptomatic, condition mostly observed in the geriatric population. Although the condition usually requir...

    Authors: Min Xu, Yue Liu, Jing Yang, Hao Liu and Chen Ding
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:161
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  11. Intraoperative hypotension is associated with increased morbidity and mortality after surgery. We hypothesized that intraoperative hypotension might also be associated with worse long-term survival after cance...

    Authors: Wen-Wen Huang, Wen-Zhi Zhu, Dong-Liang Mu, Xin-Qiang Ji, Xue-Ying Li, Daqing Ma and Dong-Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:160
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. For infants undergoing complex cardiac surgery, hemodynamic management after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is challenging because of severe myocardial edema, vasomotor dysfunction and weak tolerance to a change...

    Authors: Xuechao Hao and Wei Wei
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:159
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. The control of endothelial progenitor cells (CD133+/CD34+ EPCs) migrating from bone marrow to peripheral blood is not completely understood. Emerging evidence suggests that stromal cell-derived factor-1α (SDF-...

    Authors: Antonella Cotoia, Olga Cela, Gaetano Palumbo, Sabrina Altamura, Flavia Marchese, Nicoletta Mangialetto, Daniela La Bella, Vincenzo Lizzi, Nazzareno Capitanio and Gilda Cinnella
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:158
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. In women presenting for caesarean section under spinal anesthesia, continuous measurement of circulatory aspects, such as blood pressure and cardiac output, is often needed. At present, invasive techniques are...

    Authors: Ivar N. Omenås, Christian Tronstad and Leiv Arne Rosseland
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:157
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Awake craniotomy requires specific sedation procedure in an awake patient who should be able to cooperate during the intraoperative neurological assessment. Currently, limited number of literatures on the appl...

    Authors: Ping Yi, Qiong Li, Zhoujing Yang, Li Cao, Xiaobing Hu and Huahua Gu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:156
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Major abdominal surgery is associated with endothelial glycocalyx disruption. The anti-inflammatory effects of lidocaine were recently associated with endothelial barrier protection.

    Authors: Marco Pustetto, Nicolas Goldsztejn, Karim Touihri, Edgard Engelman, Brigitte Ickx and Luc Van Obbergh
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:155
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  17. Sufentanil is one of the opioids currently used to induce general anesthesia, and cough is one of the most common complications. Many drugs have been used to prevent sufentanil-induced cough (SIC), and dezocin...

    Authors: Zhencheng Xiong, Ping Yi, Jipeng Song and Mingsheng Tan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:154
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Peripheral perfusion index (PPI) is an indicator reflecting perfusion. Patients undergoing long time surgeries are more prone to hypoperfusion and increased lactate. Few studies focusing on investigating the a...

    Authors: Xinge Shi, Ming Xu, Xu Yu and Yibin Lu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:153
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. After prehospital insertion of i-gel, a popular supraglottic airway (SGA), fiberoptic-guided intubation through i-gel is often required to switch the i-gel to a definitive airway for anticipated difficult airw...

    Authors: Yun Jeong Chae, Heirim Lee, Bokyeong Jun and In Kyong Yi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:152
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Endotracheal intubation requires optimum position of the head and neck. In obese females, the usual ramped position might not provide adequate intubating conditions. We hypothesized that a new position, termed...

    Authors: Ahmed Hasanin, Hager Tarek, Maha M. A. Mostafa, Amany Arafa, Ahmed G. Safina, Mona H. Elsherbiny, Osama Hosny, Ahmed A. Gado, Tarek Almenesey, Ghada Adel Hamden, Mohamed Mahmoud and Sarah Amin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:151
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Double-lumen tube (DLT) intubation is necessary for thoracic surgery and other operations with the need for lung separation. However, DLT insertion is complex and might result in airway trauma. A new videolary...

    Authors: Joachim Risse, Ann-Kristin Schubert, Thomas Wiesmann, Ansgar Huelshoff, David Stay, Michael Zentgraf, Andreas Kirschbaum, Hinnerk Wulf, Carsten Feldmann and Karl Matteo Meggiolaro
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:150
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Propofol is among the most frequently used anesthetic agents, and it has the potential for abuse. The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are key mediators neural plasticity, neuronal development, addiction,...

    Authors: Bei-ping Chen, Xi-xi Huang, Dong-mei Dong, Hui Wu, Tian-qi Zhu and Ben-fu Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:149
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Acute renal injury (AKI) caused by hypotension often occurs in elderly patients after gastrointestinal tumor surgery. Although vasoactive drugs can increase effective filtration pressure, they may increase ren...

    Authors: Xiaowei Guo, Jie Hu, Hanbing Xiao, Tianyu Liu, Zheng Niu, Min Wang and Dunyi Qi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:148
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Dramatic hemodynamic fluctuation occurs frequently during surgery for pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma. However, the criteria of intraoperative hemodynamic instability vary widely, and most of them were defin...

    Authors: Nan Li, Hao Kong, Shuang-Ling Li, Sai-Nan Zhu, Zheng Zhang and Dong-Xin Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:147
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Loss of resistance (LOR) technique is a widely used method to identify the epidural space. However, cases of inadequate epidural anesthesia in cesarean section were frequently reported. Also, the success rate ...

    Authors: Young Sung Kim, Hyo Sung Kim, Hyerim Jeong, Chung Hun Lee, Mi Kyoung Lee and Sang Sik Choi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:146
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. We developed a Vital-signs-integrated Patient-assisted Intravenous opioid Analgesia (VPIA) analgesic infusion pump, a closed-loop vital signs monitoring and drug delivery system which embodied in a novel algor...

    Authors: Ban Leong Sng, Daryl Jian’an Tan, Chin Wen Tan, Nian-Lin Reena Han, Rehena Sultana and Alex Tiong Heng Sia
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:145
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Caudal ketamine has been shown to provide an effective and prolonged post-operative analgesia with few adverse effects. However, the effect of caudal ketamine on the minimum local anesthetic concentration (MLA...

    Authors: Huai-Zhen Wang, Ling-Yu Wang, Hui-Hong Liang, Yan-Ting Fan, Xing-Rong Song and Ying-Jun She
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:144
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Previous studies showed that remifentanil-induced anesthesia can inhibit surgical stress response in non-diabetic adult patients and that low-dose glucose loading during anesthesia may attenuate fat catabolism...

    Authors: Kohei Fukuta, Asuka Kasai, Noriko Niki, Yuki Ishikawa, Ryosuke Kawanishi, Nami Kakuta, Yoko Sakai, Yasuo M. Tsutsumi and Katsuya Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:143
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. The volume effect of iso-oncotic colloid is supposedly larger than crystalloid, but such differences are dependent on clinical context. The purpose of this single center observational study was to compare the ...

    Authors: Daisuke Toyoda, Yuichi Maki, Yasumasa Sakamoto, Junki Kinoshita, Risa Abe and Yoshifumi Kotake
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:141
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. There has been a global increase in the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI), including among critically-ill surgical patients. AKI prediction score provides an opportunity for early detection of patients wh...

    Authors: Konlawij Trongtrakul, Jayanton Patumanond, Suneerat Kongsayreepong, Sunthiti Morakul, Tanyong Pipanmekaporn, Osaree Akaraborworn and Sujaree Poopipatpab
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:140
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Spinal anesthesia is optimal choice for transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), but the sensory block should not cross the T10 level. With advancing age, the sensory blockade level increases after spin...

    Authors: Wei Bing Wang, Ai Jiao Sun, Hong Ping Yu, Jing Chun Dong and Huang Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:139
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Several neuraxial techniques have demonstrated effective post-cesarean section analgesia. According to previous reports, it is likely that patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) without opioids is inferi...

    Authors: Izumi Sato, Hajime Iwasaki, Sarah Kyuragi Luthe, Takafumi Iida and Hirotsugu Kanda
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:138
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. As a component of multimodal analgesia, the administration of systemic lidocaine is a well-known technique. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of lidocaine infusion on postoperative pain-related outcomes in pat...

    Authors: Anup Ghimire, Asish Subedi, Balkrishna Bhattarai and Birendra Prasad Sah
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:137
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. The application of bedside ultrasound to evaluate gastric content and volume can assist in determining aspiration risk. Applying positive pressure ventilation via supraglottic airway devices (SAD) can result i...

    Authors: Qiuping Ye, Di Wu, Weiping Fang, Gordon Tin Chun Wong and Yao Lu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:136
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Abnormal laryngeal structures are likely to be associated with a difficult laryngoscopy procedure. Currently, laryngeal structures can be measured by ultrasonography, however, little research has been performe...

    Authors: Hongwei Ni, Chunming Guan, Guangbao He, Yang Bao, Dongping Shi and Yijun Zhu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:134
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. This retrospective study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of parturients with placenta previa (PP) and placenta accreta (PA) according to their severity, when they were managed with intraoperative abdomi...

    Authors: Peng Li, Xia Liu, Xiangkui Li, Xinchuan Wei and Juan Liao
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:133
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. Propofol provides a prominent sedation effect in colonoscopy. However, anesthesia and sedation induced with propofol in the elderly might result in cardiopulmonary complications, especially when it is combined...

    Authors: Mengmeng Chen, Yi Lu, Haoran Liu, Qingxia Fu, Jun Li, Junzheng Wu and Wangning Shangguan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:132
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) require adequate sedation or general anesthesia. To date, there is lack of consensus regarding who should administer sedation in these ...

    Authors: Chengcheng C. Zhang, Nicole Ganion, Phillip Knebel, Christian Bopp, Thorsten Brenner, Markus A. Weigand, Peter Sauer and Anja Schaible
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:131
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. It is unclear whether regional anesthesia with infraclavicular nerve block or general anesthesia provides better postoperative analgesia after distal radial fracture fixation, especially when combined with reg...

    Authors: Stanley S. Wong, Wing S. Chan, Christian Fang, Chi W. Chan, Tak W. Lau, Frankie Leung and Chi W. Cheung
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:130
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. This study determined whether the relationship between predicted propofol effect site concentration (Ce) and observer’s assessment of alertness/sedation scale (OAA/S) or Bispectral Index (BIS) was similar comp...

    Authors: Frederick Sieber, Karin Neufeld, Esther S. Oh, Allan Gottschalk and Nae-Yuh Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:129
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are common and significant problems for oral and maxillofacial surgery patients. Dexmedetomidine (DEX), an α2-adrenoreceptor agonist, has been proven having lung prote...

    Authors: Yun Liu, Xi Zhu, Dan Zhou, Fang Han and Xudong Yang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:127
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Retrospective analysis and pre-clinical studies suggest that local anesthetics have anti-tumoral effects. However, the association between cancer recurrence and the use of local anesthesia is inconclusive and ...

    Authors: Guanhua Zhu, Ling Zhang, Jiapeng Dan and Qiong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:126
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The anesthesia of patients with large mediastinal mass is at high-risk. Avoidance of general anesthesia in these patients is the safest option, if this is unavoidable, maintenance of spontaneous ventilation is...

    Authors: Zhuo Liu, Qianqian Jia and Xiaochun Yang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:125
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a complex endoscopic procedure that requires moderate to deep sedation. Propofol is the sedative agent of choice for sedation in ERCP due to its fast di...

    Authors: Adhrie Sugiarto, Christopher Kapuangan, Aida Rosita Tantri and Vincent Chrisnata
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:123
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The use of Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) system to treat medically refractory neuropathic pain is increasing. Severe neuropathic pain can be found in giant chest wall arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), exceed...

    Authors: Bruno Antonio Zanfini, Salvatore De Martino, Luciano Frassanito, Stefano Catarci, Francesco Vitale di Maio, Pietro Paolo Giuri, Gian Luigi Gonnella and Gaetano Draisci
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:122
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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