Nicholas Marcanthony,Ehab Farag
Nicholas Marcanthony
Apneusis, or apneustic respirations, is characterized by an abnormal breathing pattern involving gasping and the inability to fully expire. A loss of gag reflex and other cranial nerve deficits are also often accompanied with these respirat...
S E Verstraeten,A H M van Straten,H H M Korsten et al.
S E Verstraeten et al.
We report a case of inability to ventilate a patient after completion of pneumonectomy, due to migrated tumor tissue to the contralateral side. This represents an unusual complication with a high mortality rate. We have managed to find the ...
Rosalie F Tassone,Christian Seefelder,Navil F Sethna
Rosalie F Tassone
Objective. Unilateral sensory and motor blockade is known to occur with epidural anesthesia but is rarely reported in children. The differential diagnosis should include the presence of a midline epidural septum. Case Report. We describe a ...
Deepu Sasikumaran Ushakumari,Navneet Grewal,Michael Green
Deepu Sasikumaran Ushakumari
Mounier Kuhn syndrome, or congenital tracheobronchomegaly, is an under diagnosed clinical entity with peculiar anatomical and physiological features making anesthetic care challenging. A 58-year-old chronic smoker with history of recurrent ...
Khaled Mahmoud,Amany Ammar
Khaled Mahmoud
Tranexamic acid (TXA) is a popular antifibrinolytic drug that is commonly used in patients with bleeding disorder. Major morbidities and mortalities have been reported following inadvertent intrathecal injection of TXA. In this paper, inadv...
Sympathetic blocks provided sustained pain relief in a patient with refractory painful diabetic neuropathy [0.03%]
星状交感神经阻滞可以为难治性糖尿病神经病理性疼痛患者提供持续的止痛效果
Jianguo Cheng,Anuj Daftari,Lan Zhou
Jianguo Cheng
The sympathetic nervous system has been implicated in pain associated with painful diabetic neuropathy. However, therapeutic intervention targeted at the sympathetic nervous system has not been established. We thus tested the hypothesis tha...
Anesthetic management of direct laryngoscopy and dilatation of subglottic stenosis in a patient with severe myasthenia gravis [0.03%]
重症肌无力患者直接喉镜下亚 glottis狭窄扩张的麻醉管理
Hesham A Elsharkawy,Ursula Galway
Hesham A Elsharkawy
We describe the anesthetic management of a patient with severe myasthenia gravis and tracheal stenosis; the patient was scheduled for direct laryngoscopy and dilatation. The combination of myasthenia gravis and tracheal obstruction presents...
Venous air embolism leading to cardiac arrest in an infant with cyanotic congenital heart disease [0.03%]
青紫型先天性心脏病婴儿发生空气栓塞致心脏骤停
Scott C Watkins,Lewis McCarver,Alicia Vanbebber et al.
Scott C Watkins et al.
Gas emboli, including venous and arterial, are a rare but important complication of pediatric cardiac surgery. They have the potential to have devastating consequences and require prompt recognition and treatment. We present a case of gas e...
The risk of regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration in a patient after gastric banding [0.03%]
胃绑带术后患者返流和吸入的风险
Abdulvahab Thekkethodika
Abdulvahab Thekkethodika
Laparoscopic gastric banding is a popular surgical treatment performed to control morbid obesity all over the world. Regurgitation of food material from stomach is very common in these patients. Remnants of food material may risk the airway...
Ayse B Ozer,Omer L Erhan,Cevdet Sumer et al.
Ayse B Ozer et al.
The aim of the present paper is to report the anesthesia administration to a patient who was planned to undergo Heller myotomy for achalasia. There wasnot property in the patient whom allgrove syndrome was excepted any steroid treatment in ...