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  1. Reperfusion ventricular arrhythmia (RA) associated with hypothermic ischaemic storage is increasingly recognized as a substantial contributor to adverse consequences after heart transplantation. Ischemia- or h...

    Authors: Wei Chao Li, Hong Gao, Ju Gao and Zi Jun Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:5
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  2. It has been reported that postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is correlated with the degeneration of the central nervous system, oxidative stress, inflammation, and endocrine and immune dysfunction. Inc...

    Authors: Yuan Zhang, Hong-Guang Bao, Yun-Luo Lv, Yan-Na Si, Liu Han, Hong-Yu Wang, Yu-Jie Gao, Wei-Qing Jiang and Chen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:6
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  3. This study aimed at developing and validating a scoring model to stratify critically ill patients after cardiac surgery based on risk for dysphagia, a common but often neglected complication.

    Authors: Xiao-Dong Zhou, Wei-Hua Dong, Chu-Huan Zhao, Xia-Fei Feng, Wei-Wei Wen, Wen-Yi Tu, Meng-Xing Cai, Tian-Cheng Xu and Qiang-Li Xie
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:7
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  4. The Cormack-Lehane (C-L) grade III airway is considered to be a challenging airway to intubate and is associated with a poor intubation success rate. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the ho...

    Authors: Tzu-Yao Hung, Li-Wei Lin, Yu-Hang Yeh, Yung-Cheng Su, Chieh-Hung Lin and Ten-Fang Yang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:8
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  5. Several methods have been used to predict difficult tracheal intubation. Among recently suggested methods, the upper lip bite test (ULBT) could serve as a good predictor. Soft tissue and skeletal hard tissue p...

    Authors: Jong Chan Kim, Yumin Ki, Jihee Kim and So Woon Ahn
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:9
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  6. Hemorrhage and blood loss are still among the main causes of preventable death. Global hemostatic assays are useful point-of-care test (POCT) devices to rapidly detect cumulative effects of plasma factors and ...

    Authors: H.-G. Topf, E. R. Strasser, G. Breuer, W. Rascher, M. Rauh and F. B. Fahlbusch
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:10
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  7. Anticoagulant therapy during pregnancy is widely used due to the increasing awareness of maternal hypercoagulability. Few studies have reported the use of minimally invasive spinal anesthesia in these parturie...

    Authors: Dan Huang, Linjie Zhu, Jie Chen and Jie Zhou
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:11
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  8. Airway Scope (AWS) with its plastic blade does not require a head-tilt or separate laryngoscopy to guide intubations. Therefore, we hypothesized that its use would reduce the intubation time (IT) and the frequ...

    Authors: Yoko Okumura, Masahiro Okuda, Aiji Sato Boku, Naoko Tachi, Mayumi Hashimoto, Tomio Yamada and Masahiro Yamada
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:12
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  9. Ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) is a critical pathophysiological basis of cognitive dysfunction caused by ischemia stroke. Heme-oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is the rate-limiting enzyme for the elimination of excessive free h...

    Authors: Beibei Dong, Yongyan Yang, Zhishen Zhang, Keliang Xie, Lin Su and Yonghao Yu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:13
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  10. The asleep-awake-asleep (AAA) technique and laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is a common general anesthesia technique for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. However, the LMA is not always the ideal artificial ai...

    Authors: Wenxi Tang, Penghui Wei, Jiapeng Huang, Na Zhang, Haipeng Zhou, Jinfeng Zhou, Qiang Zheng, Jianjun Li and Zhigang Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:14
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  11. In adolescents limited data are available on the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of propofol. In this study we derived a PK-PD model for propofol in adolescents undergoing idiopathic scoliosis ...

    Authors: Heleen J. Blussé van Oud-Alblas, Margreke J. E. Brill, Mariska Y. M. Peeters, Dick Tibboel, Meindert Danhof and Catherijne A. J. Knibbe
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:15
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  12. Aspiration is a main contributor to morbidity and mortality in anaesthesia. The ideal patient positioning for rapid sequence induction remains controversial. A head-down tilt and full cervical spine extension ...

    Authors: Michael St. Pierre, Frederick Krischke, Bjoern Luetcke and Joachim Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:16
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  13. Bupivacaine and levobupivacaine have similar pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics, and are used regularly in spinal anesthesia. Whether potential differences in their hemodynamic and anesthetic ...

    Authors: Roser Vives, Diana Fernandez-Galinski, Francisca Gordo, Alberto Izquierdo, Joan C. Oliva, Carmen Colilles and Caridad Pontes
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:17
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  14. Although pain treatment is an important objective in prehospital emergency medicine the incidence of oligoanalgesia is still high in prehospital patients. Given that prehospital emergency medicine in Germany i...

    Authors: Stefan J. Schaller, Felix P. Kappler, Claudia Hofberger, Jens Sattler, Richard Wagner, Gerhard Schneider, Manfred Blobner and Karl-Georg Kanz
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:18
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  15. Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has become an accepted treatment option for severely ill patients. Due to a limited availability of ECMO support therapy, patients must often be transported to a spe...

    Authors: Stefan Felix Ehrentraut, Barbara Schroll, Stefan Lenkeit, Heidi Ehrentraut, Christian Bode, Stefan Kreyer, Florian Kögl, Felix Lehmann, Thomas Muders, Martin Scholz, Claudia Strater, Folkert Steinhagen, Nils Ulrich Theuerkauf, Carsten Weißbrich, Christian Putensen and Jens-Christian Schewe
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:19
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  16. The authors have retracted this article

    Authors: Fuxi Song, Chunmiao Ye, Feng Qi, Ping Zhang, Xuexiang Wang, Yanfeng Lü, Alejandro Fernandez-Escobar, Chao Zheng and Liang Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:20
    Content type: Retraction Note Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Anesthesiology 2018 18:145

  17. Crystalloids are first line in fluid resuscitation therapy, however there is a lack of evidence-based recommendations on the volume to be administered. Therefore, we aimed at comparing the systemic hemodynamic...

    Authors: Gergely H. Fodor, Walid Habre, Adam L. Balogh, Roberta Südy, Barna Babik and Ferenc Peták
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:21
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  18. Barbiturates are commonly used in ambulatory sedation of pediatric patients. However, use of barbiturates involve risks of respiratory complications. Dexmedetomidine, a highly selective α2-adrenoceptor agonist, i...

    Authors: Panu Uusalo, Mirjam Lehtinen, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Tuula Manner, Mika Scheinin and Teijo I. Saari
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:22
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  19. Quadratus lumborum (QL) block is increasingly being used as a new abdominal nerve block technique. In some studies of mid and lower abdominal and hip analgesia, continuous QL block achieved favorable outcomes ...

    Authors: Qiang Zhu, Li Li, Zhaoyun Yang, Jinmei Shen, Rong Zhu, Yu Wen, Wenwu Cai and Lei Liu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:23
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  20. Adult cardiac surgery is often complicated by elevated blood losses that account for elevated transfusion requirements. Perioperative bleeding and transfusion of blood products are major risk factors for morbi...

    Authors: F. Lehmann, J. Rau, B. Malcolm, M. Sander, C. von Heymann, T. Moormann, T. Geyer, F. Balzer, K. D. Wernecke and L. Kaufner
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:24
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  21. Post-operative delirium (POD) is a common post-operative complication in elderly individuals and imposes a significant health and financial burden. Identifying predictive biomarkers may help understand the pat...

    Authors: Farrah Ayob, Enoch Lam, George Ho, Frances Chung, Hossam El-Beheiry and Jean Wong
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:25
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  22. Standardizing concentrations of intravenous infusions enables pre-preparation and is effective in improving patient safety by avoiding large deviations from the prescribed concentration that can occur when inf...

    Authors: Asia N Rashed, Cate Whittlesea, Caroline Davies, Ben Forbes and Stephen Tomlin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:26
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  23. There are several recent reports that left upper lobe lung resection is a risk factor for the development of postoperative thromboembolism. Although administering epidural analgesia is common in thoracic surge...

    Authors: Asuka Kitajima, Yuji Otsuka, Alan Kawarai Lefor and Masamitsu Sanui
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:27
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  25. This preclinical study in humans was designed to selectively induce delayed nociceptive pain responses to individually titrated laser stimulation, enabling separate bedside intensity scoring of both immediate ...

    Authors: Anna Sellgren Engskov, Agneta Troilius Rubin and Jonas Åkeson
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:29
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  26. Postoperative remote lung injury is a complication following various surgeries and is associated with short and long-term mortality and morbidity. The release of proinflammatory cytokines, damage-associated mo...

    Authors: Lin Chen, Hailin Zhao, Azeem Alam, Emma Mi, Shiori Eguchi, Shanglong Yao and Daqing Ma
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:30
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  27. Breast cancer surgery is one of the most common surgeries among the female population. Nearly half of the patients suffer chronic pain following breast cancer surgery, and 24% of them categorizing their pain a...

    Authors: Başak Altıparmak, Melike Korkmaz Toker, Ali İhsan Uysal and Semra Gümüş Demirbilek
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:31
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  29. During an emergency endotracheal intubation, rapid sequence induction intubation (RSII) with cricoid pressure (CP) is frequently implemented to prevent aspiration pneumonia. We evaluated the CVS in endotrachea...

    Authors: Yen-Chu Lin, An-Hsun Cho, Jr-Rung Lin and Yung-Tai Chung
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:33
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  30. Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) based on dynamic indicators of fluid responsiveness has been shown to decrease postoperative complications and hospital length of stay (LOS) in patients undergoing major abdo...

    Authors: Sean Coeckelenbergh, Amélie Delaporte, Djamal Ghoundiwal, Javad Bidgoli, Jean-François Fils, Denis Schmartz and Philippe Van der Linden
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:34
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  31. Our objective was to evaluate if changes in on-pump cerebral blood flow, relative to the pre-bypass baseline, are associated with the risk for postoperative delirium (POD) following cardiac surgery.

    Authors: Marcus Thudium, Richard K. Ellerkmann, Ingo Heinze and Tobias Hilbert
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:35
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  32. The oculocardiac reflex (OCR), bradycardia that occurs during strabismus surgery is a type of trigemino-cardiac reflex (TCR) is blocked by anticholinergics and enhanced by opioids and dexmedetomidine. Two rece...

    Authors: Robert W. Arnold, Aleah N. Bond, Melissa McCall and Leif Lunoe
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:36
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  33. Catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) frequently occurs during recovery in patients who undergo intra-operative urinary catheterization. We conducted this study to compare the effect of intravenous lidoca...

    Authors: S. Y. Li, H. Li, J. Ni and Y. S. Ma
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:37
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  34. The beneficial effects of epidural analgesia (EDA) in terms of pain control and postoperative convalescence are widely known and led to a frequent use for patients who underwent living donor kidney nephrectomy...

    Authors: Wolfgang Baar, Ulrich Goebel, Hartmut Buerkle, Bernd Jaenigen, Kai Kaufmann and Sebastian Heinrich
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:38
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  35. A common postoperative complication found among patients who are critically ill is delirium, which has a high mortality rate. A predictive model is needed to identify high-risk patients in order to apply strat...

    Authors: Onuma Chaiwat, Mellada Chanidnuan, Worapat Pancharoen, Kittiya Vijitmala, Praniti Danpornprasert, Puriwat Toadithep and Chayanan Thanakiattiwibun
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:39
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:58

  36. Hypoxia is a major concern and cause of morbidity or mortality during tracheal intubation after anesthesia induction in a pathological obese patient with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We introduce a case usin...

    Authors: Hansheng Liang, Yuantao Hou, Huafeng Wei and Yi Feng
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:40
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  37. Laryngeal mask airway is a supraglottic airway device which has led to a fundamental change in the management of modern general anesthesia. In the present study; we evaluated the laryngeal mask airway insertio...

    Authors: Bacha Aberra, Adugna Aregawi, Girmay Teklay and Hagos Tasew
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:41
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  38. Nitrous oxide has a proven clinical efficacy in conscious sedation. At certain environmental concentrations it may pose a health risk to chronically exposed healthcare workers. The present pilot study aims at ...

    Authors: S. Zaffina, M. Lembo, F. Gilardi, A. Bussu, F. Pattavina, M. G. Tucci, U. Moscato, M. Raponi, P. Derrico, A. Galeotti and V. Camisa
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:42
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  39. The incidence of postoperative complications after head and neck surgery is high. This study evaluated the influence of early elective tracheostomy on the incidence of postoperative pneumonia and delirium.

    Authors: Johannes Meier, Michael Wunschel, Anne Angermann, Tobias Ettl, Thomas Metterlein, Christoph Klingelhöffer, Torsten E. Reichert and Markus Ritzka
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:43
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  40. The intubating laryngeal mask Fastrach™ is considered a gold standard for blind intubation as well as for fibreoptic guided intubation via a laryngeal mask. Recently, a single use version of the mask has been ...

    Authors: R. Schiewe, M. Stoeck, M. Gruenewald, J. Hoecker and B. Bein
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:44
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  41. TEG6S® and TEG5000® (Haemonetics Corp, USA) are haemostasis analysers that measure viscoelasticity properties of whole blood. Both use different mechanisms to assess similar components of the coagulation process....

    Authors: P. Lloyd-Donald, L. Churilov, F. Zia, R. Bellomo, G. Hart, P. McCall, J. Mårtensson, N. Glassford and L. Weinberg
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:45
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  42. Patient satisfaction is a subjective and challenging perception, linking physical, expressive, psychological, societal, and cultural factors. Dissatisfaction arises if the patient feels an inconsistency betwee...

    Authors: Kore Menjie Benwu and Hagos Gebregziabher Gebremedhin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:46
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  43. Airway management is crucial and, probably, even the most important key competence in anaesthesiology, which directly influences patient safety and outcome. However, high-quality research is rarely published a...

    Authors: Jochen Hinkelbein, Ivan Iovino, Edoardo De Robertis and Peter Kranke
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:47
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  44. The cardioprotective effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) in cardiovascular surgery is controversial. This study investigated whether RIPC combined with remote ischemic postconditioning (RIPostC) r...

    Authors: Guyan Wang, Ying Zhang, Lijing Yang, Yimeng Chen, Zhongrong Fang, Hui Zhou, Congya Zhang, Guiyu Lei, Sheng Shi and Jun Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:48
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  45. Although several anesthesia procedures have been explored for orthopedic surgery, the complications of anesthesia remain not well resolved. This study aimed to explore the influence of different anesthesia met...

    Authors: Yuqing Zeng, Junming Wan, Haiyong Ren, Jianwei Lu, Fuhua Zhong and Shu Deng
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:49
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  46. Underbody blankets have recently been launched and are used by anesthesiologists for surgical patients. However, the forced-air warming effect of underbody blankets is still controversial. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Hiroshi Sumida, Shigekazu Sugino, Norifumi Kuratani, Daisuke Konno, Jun-ichi Hasegawa and Masanori Yamauchi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:50
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  47. Ultrasound guidance for central venous catheterization is a commonly used alternative to the conventional landmark method. Because from the German perspective, the cost-effectiveness of ultrasound guidance is ...

    Authors: Yana Seleznova, Patrick Brass, Martin Hellmich, Stephanie Stock and Dirk Müller
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:51
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  48. The dislocation rate of oral versus nasal airway exchange catheters (AEC) in the postoperative care unit (PACU) are unknown. Our aim was to establish dislocation rates and to assess the usefulness of waveform ...

    Authors: Fredy-Michel Roten, Richard Steffen, Maren Kleine-Brueggeney, Robert Greif, Marius Wipfli, Andreas Arnold, Henrik Fischer and Lorenz Theiler
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:52
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  50. Spinal epidural hematoma is a rare but serious complication of epidural anaesthesia and neurological impairment. Epidural hematoma usually becomes evident within a few hours of the procedure. Delayed clinical ...

    Authors: Alessandro Svelato, Alberto Rutili, Caterina Bertelloni, Domenico Foti, Angela Capizzi and Antonio Ragusa
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2019 19:54
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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