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  1. Early rehabilitation can reduce ventilation duration and improve functional outcomes in critically ill patients. Upper limb strength is associated with ventilator weaning. Passive muscle loading may preserve m...

    Authors: Olive M Wilkinson, Andrew Bates and Rebecca Cusack
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:27
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  2. Soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) exhibits proinflammatory and procoagulant effects. Recent data indicated that sCD40L plays a significant role in septic patients. The aim of the present study was to determine sCD4...

    Authors: Yingjian Liang, Chengrui Zhu, Yini Sun, Zhiliang Li, Liang Wang, Yina Liu, Xin Li and Xiaochun Ma
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:26
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  3. Serum lactate has long been used to evaluate hypoxia and predict prognosis in critically ill patients, however, discrepancy in lactate measurements between different sites have not been recognized as a useful ...

    Authors: Qing Zhang, Ye Liu, Longxiang Su, Wenzhao Chai, Hongmin Zhang, Xiaoting Wang and Dawei Liu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:25
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  4. Scientometrics is used to assess the impact of research in several health fields, including Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. The purpose of this study was to identify contributors to highly-cited African...

    Authors: Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Joel Noutakdie Tochie, Aimé Mbonda, Cynthia Kévine Wafo, Leonid Daya, Thompson Hope Atem, Arsène Daniel Nyalundja and Daniel Cheryl Eyaman
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:24
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  5. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a common neurosurgical emergency, and early brain injury (EBI) plays an important role in acute brain injury of SAH. Our objective is to investigate the effect of stellate gang...

    Authors: Jian Zhang, Ying Nie, Qiongni Pang, Xubiao Zhang, Qianting Wang and Jing Tang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:23
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Post-spinal anesthesia hypotension during cesarean delivery is caused by decreased systemic vascular resistance due to the blockage of the autonomic nerves, which is further worsened by inferior vena cava (IVC...

    Authors: Shi-Fa Yao, Yan-Hong Zhao, Jing Zheng, Jie-Yan Qian, Chen Zhang, Zifeng Xu and Tao Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:22
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  7. Radial artery cannulation can cause complications such as haematoma formation or thrombosis due to its small diameter. Recently, a novel ultrasound device equipped with an electromagnetic guidance system was i...

    Authors: Namo Kim, Hyun Il Kim, Do-Hyeong Kim, Dahee Park, Sei Han Song and Hyo-Jin Byon
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:21
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  8. The Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire (APS-POQ-R) evaluates the patient-reported quality of pain management in adults. A validated APS-POQ-R is pivotal to guide effective pain managem...

    Authors: Sook Hui Chaw, Yoke Lin Lo, Jia Yin Lee, Jia Wing Wong, Wan Aizat Wan Zakaria, Shairil Rahayu Ruslan, Wei Keang Tan and Ina Ismiarti Shariffuddin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:20
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  9. Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are important contributors to mortality and morbidity after surgery. The available predicting models are useful in preoperative risk assessment, but there is a need...

    Authors: Marcell Szabó, Anna Bozó, Katalin Darvas, Sándor Soós, Márta Őzse and Zsolt D. Iványi
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:19
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  10. Trigeminal-cardiac reflex (TCR) is a brainstem vagus reflex that occurs when any center or peripheral branch of the trigeminal nerve was stimulated or operated on. The typical clinical manifestation is sudden ...

    Authors: Wen Wang, Hongwei Cai, Huiping Ding and Xiaoping Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:18
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. An index of dynamic lactate change that incorporates both the magnitude of change and the time interval of such change, termed “normalized lactate load,” may reflect the hypoxic burden of septic shock. We aime...

    Authors: Han Chen, Shu-Rong Gong and Rong-Guo Yu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:16
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  13. Data on postoperative outcomes of the COVID-19 patient population is limited. We described COVID-19 patients who underwent a surgery and the pandemic impact on surgical activities.

    Authors: François Martin Carrier, Éva Amzallag, Vincent Lecluyse, Geneviève Côté, Étienne J. Couture, Frédérick D’Aragon, Stanislas Kandelman, Alexis F. Turgeon, Alain Deschamps, Roy Nitulescu, Codjo Djignefa Djade, Martin Girard, Pierre Beaulieu and Philippe Richebé
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:15
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  14. Although transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is considered a relatively safe diagnostic monitoring method, blind probe insertion is associated with pharyngeal trauma. Through visual observation of the esoph...

    Authors: Taisuke Kumamoto, Koichiro Tashima, Chieko Hiraoka, Yoshihiro Ikuta and Tatsuo Yamamoto
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:14
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  15. The feasibility and safety of administrating a small amount of oral fluid to children in the early recovery period following tonsillectomy under general anesthesia to reduce the thirst and its associated restl...

    Authors: Meng-Hang Wu, Chang-qing Liu, Xiao-qi Zeng, An-na Jia and Xiao-rong Yin
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:13
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  16. Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently after liver transplant surgery and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While the impact of intraoperative hypotension (IOH) on postoperative AKI ...

    Authors: Alexandre Joosten, Valerio Lucidi, Brigitte Ickx, Luc Van Obbergh, Desislava Germanova, Antoine Berna, Brenton Alexander, Olivier Desebbe, Francois-Martin Carrier, Daniel Cherqui, Rene Adam, Jacques Duranteau, Bernd Saugel, Jean-Louis Vincent, Joseph Rinehart and Philippe Van der Linden
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:12
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  17. Post-spinal anesthesia (PSA) hypotension in elderly patients is challenging. Correction of PSA hypotension by fluids either colloids or crystalloids or by vasoconstrictors pose the risk of volume overload or c...

    Authors: Tarek M. Ashoor, Noha S. Hussien, Sherif G. Anis and Ibrahim M. Esmat
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:11
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  18. The timing of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) removal remains undefined. This study aimed to assess the optimal timing for LMA removal and whether topical anesthesia with lidocaine could reduce airway adverse events.

    Authors: Ruiqiang Sun, Xiaoyun Bao, Xuesong Gao, Tong Li, Quan Wang and Yueping Li
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:10
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  19. Pneumonia induced by 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) is characterized by hypoxemic respiratory failure that may present with a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes. At the beginning, patients may have normal lung...

    Authors: Michela Rauseo, Lucia Mirabella, Rosa Roberta Caporusso, Leonarda Pia Cantatore, Marco Paolo Perrini, Paolo Vetuschi, Daniela La Bella, Livio Tullo and Gilda Cinnella
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. Patient safety incident (PSI) reporting has been an important means of improving patient safety and enhancing organizational quality control. Reports of anesthesia-related incidents are of great value for anal...

    Authors: Xue Zhang, Shuang Ma, Xueqin Sun, Yuelun Zhang, Weiyun Chen, Qing Chang, Hui Pan, Xiuhua Zhang, Le Shen and Yuguang Huang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is used increasingly in parturients after caesarean delivery. This is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of bilateral single-shot of TAP blo...

    Authors: Yang Yu, Shenshan Gao, Vivian Man-ying Yuen, Siu-Wai Choi and Xuebing Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:7
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  22. Coblation is a novel technique in respect of treating idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia. We aimed to identify the efficacy and complications between radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFT) and coblation for V2/V3...

    Authors: Chenhui Wang, Zhi Dou, Mengwei Yan, Yuanzhang Tang, Rui Zhao, Yujie Han and Jiaxiang Ni
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:6
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  23. There are doubts among anesthesiologists on the use of the Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) in nasal surgeries because of concerns about the occurrence of blood leakages to the airway. We hypothesized that the use ...

    Authors: Erol Karaaslan, Sedat Akbas, Ahmet Selim Ozkan, Cemil Colak and Zekine Begec
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:5
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  24. Vancomycin (VCM) is effective in fighting Gram-positive bacteria related severe infections, and topical application of VCM powder is widely used in orthopedic surgery to prevent wound infection. However, VCM c...

    Authors: Xiaoqing Zhang, Wenwen Zhai, Min Li and Xiangyang Guo
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:4
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  25. Surgical-related inflammatory responses have negative effects on postoperative recovery. Intravenous (IV) lidocaine and dexmedetomidine inhibits the inflammatory response. We investigated whether the co-admini...

    Authors: Siqi Xu, Shenghong Hu, Xia Ju, Yuanhai Li, Qing Li and Shengbin Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:3
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  26. Intravenous lidocaine, a potent local anesthetic with analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties, has been shown to be an effective adjunct that reduces intra- and postoperative opioid consumption and facilita...

    Authors: Maciej Kaszyński, Dorota Lewandowska, Piotr Sawicki, Piotr Wojcieszak and Izabela Pągowska-Klimek
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:2
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  27. A fluid warmer can prevent hypothermia during the perioperative period. This study evaluated the heating capabilities of Hotline and Barkey S-line under different flow rates and initial fluid temperatures, as ...

    Authors: Hosu Kim, Tae Kyong Kim, Sukha Yoo and Jin-Tae Kim
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2021 21:1
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  28. Postoperative bleeding is a major problem in children undergoing complex pediatric cardiac surgery. The primary aim of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the effect of an institutional approa...

    Authors: Nils Dennhardt, Robert Sümpelmann, Alexander Horke, Oliver Keil, Katja Nickel, Sebastian Heiderich, Dietmar Boethig and Christiane E. Beck
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:302
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  29. Topical anesthesia is a crucial step in awake endotracheal intubation for providing favorable intubation conditions. The standard of care technique for awake intubation at our institution, which consists of or...

    Authors: Chunji Han, Peng Li, Zhenggang Guo, Ying Guo, Li Sun, Gang Chen, Xiaojue Qiu, Weidong Mi, Changsheng Zhang and Lorenzo Berra
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:301
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  30. Sedation during elective fiberoptic intubation for difficult airway can cause respiratory depression, apnea and periods of desaturation. During apneic episodes, hypoxemia can be prevented by insufflation of ox...

    Authors: Daniel C. Schroeder, Wolfgang A. Wetsch, Simon-Richard Finke, Fabian Dusse, Bernd W. Böttiger and Holger Herff
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:300
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  31. Astrocyte Connexin 43 (Cx43) is essential for the trophic and protective support of neurons during brain ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury. It is believed that dexmedetomidine participates in Cx43-mediated eff...

    Authors: Xiaoyang Zheng, Xiaoying Cai, Fang Ye, Ying Li, Qin Wang, Zhiyi Zuo, Wenqi Huang and Zhongxing Wang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:299
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  32. In critically ill patients continuous EEG (cEEG) is recommended in several conditions. Recently, a new wireless EEG headset (CerebAir®,Nihon-Kohden) is available. It has 8 electrodes, and its positioning seems...

    Authors: Anselmo Caricato, Giacomo Della Marca, Eleonora Ioannoni, Serena Silva, Tiziana Benzi Markushi, Eleonora Stival, Daniele Guerino Biasucci, Nicola Montano, Camilla Gelormini and Isabella Melchionda
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:298
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  33. We sought to determine (1) whether the addition of prophylactic oral mosapride to a protocol including dexamethasone and ondansetron further reduces postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) compared with ondan...

    Authors: Jinwei Xie, Yingchun Cai, Jun Ma, Qiang Huang and Fuxing Pei
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:297
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  34. There are several scores used for in-hospital mortality prediction in critical illness. Their application in a local scenario requires validation to ensure appropriate diagnostic accuracy. Moreover, their use ...

    Authors: Szymon Czajka, Katarzyna Ziębińska, Konstanty Marczenko, Barbara Posmyk, Anna J. Szczepańska and Łukasz J. Krzych
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:296
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. To compare patients hospitalised in the intensive care unit (ICU) after surgery for community-acquired intra-abdominal infection (CA-IAI) and hospital-acquired intra-abdominal infection (HA-IAI) in terms of mo...

    Authors: Timothée Abaziou, Fanny Vardon-Bounes, Jean-Marie Conil, Antoine Rouget, Stéphanie Ruiz, Marion Grare, Olivier Fourcade, Bertrand Suc, Marc Leone, Vincent Minville and Bernard Georges
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:295
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  36. Preoperative intravenous rehydration for patients with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) is widely used in many medical centers, but its usefulness has not been well evaluated. The objective of this...

    Authors: Hao Kong, Jiao-Nan Yang, Jie Tian, Nan Li, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Peng-Cheng Ye, Xue-Ying Li and Zheng Zhang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:294
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Scheduled cesarean section is routinely performed under spinal anesthesia using hyperbaric bupivacaine. The current study was undertaken to determine the clinically relevant 95% effective dose of intrathecal 2...

    Authors: P. Goffard, Y. Vercruysse, R. Leloup, J-F Fils, S. Chevret and Y. Kapessidou
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:293
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  38. It is not clear whether there are valuable inflammatory markers for prognosis judgment in the intensive care unit (ICU). We therefore conducted a multicenter, prospective, observational study to evaluate the p...

    Authors: Rong Qu, Linhui Hu, Yun Ling, Yating Hou, Heng Fang, Huidan Zhang, Silin Liang, Zhimei He, Miaoxian Fang, Jiaxin Li, Xu Li and Chunbo Chen
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:292
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  39. We explored the analgesic outcomes on postoperative day (POD) 1 in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) who received intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV-PCA), rectus sh...

    Authors: Jung-Woo Shim, Yun Jeong Cho, Minhee Kim, Sang Hyun Hong, Hyong Woo Moon, Sung Hoo Hong and Min Suk Chae
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:291
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  40. Breast surgery in the United States is common. Pain affects up to 50% of women undergoing breast surgery and can interfere with postoperative outcomes. General anesthesia is the conventional, most frequently u...

    Authors: Pasquale Sansone, Luca Gregorio Giaccari, Mario Faenza, Pasquale Di Costanzo, Sara Izzo, Caterina Aurilio, Francesco Coppolino, Maria Beatrice Passavanti, Vincenzo Pota and Maria Caterina Pace
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:290
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  41. The benefits of intraoperative magnesium supplementation have been reported. In this prospective, randomized study, the effects of magnesium supplementation during general anaesthesia on emergence delirium and...

    Authors: Ji-Hyun Lee, Seungeun Choi, Minkyoo Lee, Young-Eun Jang, Eun-Hee Kim, Jin-Tae Kim and Hee-Soo Kim
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:289
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  42. Surgical procedure usually causes serious postoperative pain and poor postoperative pain management negatively affects quality of life, function and recovery time. We aimed to investigate the role of wound inf...

    Authors: Kunpeng Li, Changbin Ji, Dawei Luo, Hongyong Feng, Keshi Yang and Hui Xu
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:288
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  43. Up to 70% of septic patients develop a diffuse brain dysfunction named “septic associated encephalopathy” which is often solely based on clinical impressions. However, the diagnosis of septic associated enceph...

    Authors: Benedikt Zujalovic, Benjamin Mayer, Sebastian Hafner, Florian Balling and Eberhard Barth
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:287
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  44. Technological advances in healthcare have enabled patients to participate in digital self-assessment, with reported benefits of enhanced healthcare efficiency and self-efficacy. This report describes the desig...

    Authors: Tarig Osman, Eileen Lew, Elaine Pooi-Ming Lum, Louise van Galen, Rajive Dabas, Ban Leong Sng and Josip Car
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:286
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  45. Cerebral oximetry has been widely used to measure regional oxygen saturation in brain tissue, especially during cardiac surgery. Despite its popularity, there have been inconsistent results on the use of cereb...

    Authors: Leerang Lim, Karam Nam, Seohee Lee, Youn Joung Cho, Chan-Woo Yeom, Sanghyup Jung, Jung Yoon Moon and Yunseok Jeon
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:285
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  46. Surgical interventions result in a postoperative rise in circulating inflammatory cytokines and high molecular group box protein 1 (HMGB1). Herein, the impact of a sedentary lifestyle and other age-related fac...

    Authors: Sarah Saxena, Christopher Rodts, Vincent Nuyens, Juliette Lazaron, Victoria Sosnowski, Franck Verdonk, Laurence Seidel, Adelin Albert, Jean Boogaerts, Veronique Kruys, Mervyn Maze and Joseph Vamecq
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:284
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  47. There are scenarios where pre-mixing and infusing analgesic and anaesthetic agents as a single intravenous (IV) solution is highly desirable; however, it is important to ensure the agents are compatible when m...

    Authors: Emily Henkel, Rebecca Vella, Kieran Behan, David Austin, Peter Kruger and Andrew Fenning
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:283
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  48. Airway management is a part of routine anesthetic procedures; however, serious complications, including hypoxia and death, are known to occur in cases of difficult airways. Therefore, alternative techniques su...

    Authors: Go Un Roh, Joon Gwon Kang, Jung Youn Han and Chul Ho Chang
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:282
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  49. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Chen Xie, Kai Sun, Yueyang You, Yue Ming, Xiaoling Yu, Lina Yu, Jiapeng Huang and Min Yan
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:281
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:220

  50. Numerous studies have revealed that acupuncture can increase the somatic pain threshold. Electro-acupuncture (EA) can help pain-relieving with minimal physiologic disturbance. Various painful disorders, as wel...

    Authors: Hamdy A. Hendawy and Mohamed E. Abuelnaga
    Citation: BMC Anesthesiology 2020 20:279
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