[Tranylcypromine and general anesthesia. Description of a clinical case].

abstract：:Intranasal dexmedetomidine, although still off-label, recently boasted an increasing consensus for different uses, namely, in diagnostic non-painful procedures, in painful procedures and in surgical premedication. However, at present, there is no consensus regarding indications, dosage and timing for administration. T...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Mondardini MC,Amigoni A,Cortellazzi P,Di Palma A,Navarra C,Picardo SG,Puzzutiello R,Rinaldi L,Vitale F,Zito Marinosci G,Conti G

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Authors present a retrospective review that compares general anesthesia with regional anesthesia performed during carotid endarterectomy surgery. The study includes 147 procedures, performed on 144 patients: 76 had general anesthesia and 71 had regional anesthesia. After emphasizing the importance of conscience pr...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Bartoloni A,Savron F,Rigo V,Pasetto A,Spezie C,Ischia A,Perbellini A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the case of a patient suffering from central sleep apnea (CSA) who underwent neurosurgery for ventriculo-peritoneal derivation under general anesthesia. Given the risk of postoperative hypoventilation in CSA, intraoperative anesthesia was induced using remifentanyl, an opiate with a plasma half-life...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Gallo F,Baratto F,Munari M,Volpin SM,Facco E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Goal-directed fluid management using stroke volume variation (SVV) analysis is not well studied in free flap reconstruction surgery in patients with head and neck cancer. METHODS:Patients operated due to cancer of the head and neck with free flap reconstruction during 2008-2010 and 2012-2014 in Oulu Univers...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Lahtinen SL,Liisanantti JH,Poukkanen MM,Laurila PA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In extreme emergency situations, patients may need to undergo endotracheal intubation, while in a non-supine position. This manuscript offers several options to the anesthesiologist to cope with tracheal intubations in non-standard positions. The authors stress that there is a need for adequate training in an anaesthe...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Van Zundert TC,Van Zundert AA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a highly prevalent condition that is commonly encountered in both general and specialist practice. Nonetheless, it still represents a significant challenge to the practitioners because of the lack of substantial evidence-based guidance. This review aimed to summarize the main pathophysi...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Finco G,Evangelista M,Sardo S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In severe sepsis, several studies, a recent meta--analysis and studies evaluating multifaceted strategies for quality improvement, have shown that bundled care can improve survival. Here, the effectiveness of treatments for severe sepsis included in the bundles was analyzed. Despite the observational design of the stu...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Ferrer R,Artigas A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-volume low-pressure (HVLP) endotracheal tube (ETT) cuffs for critically ill patients often deflate during the course of mechanical ventilation. We performed an in-vitro study to comprehensively assess HVLP cuff deflation dynamics and potential preventive measures. METHODS:We evaluated 24-hour deflation...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Marti JD,Li Bassi G,Isetta V,Lazaro MR,Aguilera-Xiol E,Comaru T,Battaglini D,Meli A,Ferrer M,Navajas D,Pelosi P,Chiumello D,Torres A,Farre R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, the level and the variation of a number of hormone and metabolic parameters during brain death treatment in potential organ donors have been monitored. METHODS:Thirty-nine consecutive brain-dead patients were enrolled in 3 Intensive Care Units of Regional Hospitals of the North of Italy. All ...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Gravame V,Porretti L,Cardillo M,Marchesi G,Rizzi M,Sacchi C,Candiani A,Chiaranda M,Gualandris L,Taioli E,Scalamogna M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus was responsible for the pandemic infection in 2009. We report a case of encephalitis diagnosed as the H1N1 virus infection in a young child. The H1N1 virus infection can be causative of the encephalitis, as with other influenza virus infections. For patients presenting with in...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Citerio G,Sala F,Patruno A,Gori A,Grioni D,Rossi M,Giussani C,Grimaldi M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High volume hemofiltration (HVHF) has been proposed as method for blood purification, especially under the condition of systemic inflammatory syndromes. Our goal was to evaluate the effects of HVHF in critically ill patients. METHODS:A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted of randomized controll...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Lehner GF,Wiedermann CJ,Joannidis M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on recent developments in preservation techniques in liver transplantation. First, we discuss mechanisms of organ injury when using high-risk organs, including donation after circulatory death and steatotic grafts and we summarize pathways of ischemia reperfusion injury together with their link to ...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Schlegel AA,Kalisvaart M,Muiesan P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical vertebral dislocations and fractures require the complete immobility of the neck until an intervention of stabilization of the spinal cord, by surgery or external means, is performed. Endotracheal intubation, which might represent a harmful operation, can become difficult when the stabilization of the spinal ...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Giron GP,Ori C

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful management of 2 cases of rare myopathies, who underwent hemithyroidectomy, is here reported. Anaesthesia was induced with TPS and fentanyl, and maintained with isoflurane. Neuromuscular blockade was achieved by atracurium; neuromuscular monitoring by Neurostar-Medeleck was performed. This intraoperative...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Perilli V,Sollazzi L,Valenti M,D'Alessandro AM,Lo Monaco M,Pelosi G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The world population is mostly male at birth, although there is a shift in predominance over 55 years of age with more females than males. Male gender was recently hypothesized to be a risk factor for sepsis and septic shock; the reasons and the consequences of this odd discrepancy are yet a matter of deba...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Campanelli F,Landoni G,Cabrini L,Zangrillo A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) gap is the difference between pCO2 values in the arterial and mixed venous blood; values higher than six mmHg may be predictive of tissue hypoperfusion. It is still doubtful if central venous blood can be used to assess the gap. This study was aimed to compare th...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Cavaliere F,Antoniucci ME,Arlotta G,Bevilacqua F,Calabrese M,Corrado M,Corsi F,De Paulis S,Guarneri S,Scapigliati A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More and more evidence accumulates suggesting that the reversal of the catabolic responses to surgery is associated with better outcome. The potential for anesthesiologists to be involved in altering outcome by simply preserving a normal blood glucose, providing optimal pain control and perioperative feeding is tremen...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Carli F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overall medical complications have been reduced after fast-track total hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA), but data on specific renal and urological (RU) complications are limited. METHODS:To describe the incidence and consequences of serious RU complications resulting in length of stay > 4 days or 30-da...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Bjerregaard LS,Jorgensen CC,Kehlet H,Lundbeck Foundation Centre for Fast-Track Hip and Knee Replacement Collaborative Group.

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bowel dysfunction, especially ileus, has been increasingly recognized in critically ill patients. Ileus is commonly associated to constipation, however abnormal motility can also concern the upper digestive tract, therefore impaired gastrointestinal transit (IGT) seems to be a more appropriate term. IGT, especially co...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Ariès P,Huet O

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of severe visceral leishmaniasis initially misdiagnosed owing to the old age of the patient and the contemporary presence of a carcinoma of the sigmoid. Admitted in ICU for severe post operative cardiorespiratory failure. During ICU stay the patients presented a bilateral pneumothorax and a long QT...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Pastorelli M,Salvi G,Vilianis G,Musso G,Mureddu R,Verda F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although blood gas analysis (BGA) is important for supplemental oxygen titration, it is invasive, intermittent, costly, and burdensome for staff. We assessed whether the Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi™), a novel pulse oximeter-based index that reflects the partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), could determine the am...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Kumagai M,Kurihara H,Ishida K,Komatsu H,Suzuki K

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Pain resulting from nerve lesions is classically referred to as a ''burning pain''. Both the axonal damage and sensitization of unmyelinated C-fibres have been considered as the possible generators of this sensation. The aim of this study was to verify the hypothesis that hot-burning sensations are produced by the ...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Buonocore M,Bonezzi C

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of diazepam, the hemisuccinic ester of oxazepam, fentanyl and pentazocine on pain-producing sensation after surgery was tested in 160 patients subjected to ordinary and major surgery. Use was made of Dundee and Moore's modification of Clutton-Brock's test, and Bromage's test. Analysis of the results indi...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Gerardi AU,Miletti S,Miele G

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative opioid analgesia increases the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). We investigated whether a combination of the neurokinin-1 antagonist aprepitant and dexamethasone decreases PONV incidence compared with dexamethasone alone in high-risk patients receiving continuous epidural ...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Kawano H,Matsumoto T,Hamaguchi E,Manabe S,Nakagawa M,Yamada A,Fujimoto M,Tada F

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim was to investigate whether tramadol had toxic effect on cerebral neurons and/or spinal cord neurons when it was administered into the cerebrospinal fluid. Due to lipid peroxidation (LPO) and myeloperoxidation (MPO) levels are not specific predictors of neuronal damage, these biochemical markers of ti...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Kose EA,Bakar B,Ayva SK,Kilinc K,Apan A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief account of the physiopathology and clinical treatment of antigen-antibody reactions is followed by the description of a personal technique used for over 20 years in the detection of drug allergy. The method consists of a skin test followed by administration of increasing doses of the drug under examination. At...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Ebbli C,Truffelli L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of these recommendations is the revision of data published in 2002 in the "SIAARTI Recommendations for acute postoperative pain treatment". In this version, the SIAARTI Study Group for acute and chronic pain decided to grade evidence based on the "modified Delphi" method with 5 levels of recommendation strengt...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Savoia G,Alampi D,Amantea B,Ambrosio F,Arcioni R,Berti M,Bettelli G,Bertini L,Bosco M,Casati A,Castelletti I,Carassiti M,Coluzzi F,Costantini A,Danelli G,Evangelista M,Finco G,Gatti A,Gravino E,Launo C,Loreto M,

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1947 John Bonica as new Chief of Anesthesiology at Tacoma General Hospital organized one of the first around-the-clock labor anesthesia services and when became the first chairman of the new Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Washington (1960), caudal anesthesia was the primary technique used for pro...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Chadwick HS

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The study compares the intraoperative effects of combined versus general anesthesia during major liver surgery. METHODS:In this prospective randomized study, 70 patients were divided into 2 group of 35 subjects. Group A received general anesthesia (thiopentone, fentanyl, vecuronium, sevoflurane in a closed circuit...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Siniscalchi A,Begliomini B,Matteo G,De Pietri L,Pasetto A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Inguinal herniorrhaphy (IH) is a common surgical procedure that can be successfully performed by using general, regional or local anesthesia and is usually performed in an outpatient setting. In this study, recovery profile, incidence of adverse effects, postoperative pain scores and patient satisfaction between pa...

journal_title：Minerva anestesiologica

authors： Akcaboy EY,Akcaboy ZN,Gogus N

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00