Vertec To Market Siemens Healthcare X Class Ultrasound Systems In The UK
Siemens Healthcare and Vertec Scientific have announced a distribution partnership that will see Vertec exclusively market the X Class range of ultrasound systems in the markets of emergency medicine, GP practices, rheumatology, orthopaedics, acute medicine, chest medicine and anaesthetics... (Source: MRI / PET / Ultrasound News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 02/08/2010 at 06:00 AM --
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Vertec To Market Siemens Healthcare X Class Ultrasound Systems In The UK
Siemens Healthcare and Vertec Scientific have announced a distribution partnership that will see Vertec exclusively market the X Class range of ultrasound systems in the markets of emergency medicine, GP practices, rheumatology, orthopaedics, acute medicine, chest medicine and anaesthetics. The agreement, which is effective immediately, will see Vertec sell the systems and Siemens Healthcare's engineers maintain the technology... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
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Guidelines on the prevention of post-operative vomiting in children
This report investigates the causes of post-operative vomiting in children and summarises the efficacy of treatments used to prevent and treat postoperative vomiting in children. The guidelines have been prepared using SIGN Methodology drawing together available evidence and recommending best practice based on the available evidence and on the clinical experience of the guidelines development group. Intended audience: Paediatric anaesthetists, other healthcare professionals caring for post-operative children. Publication history information: Published Spring 2009. Access: Available to the general public. (Source: Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Specialist Library - Common clinical problems)...
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Addex: ADX71943 Demonstrates Analgesic Effects In Pain Models
Addex Pharmaceuticals / Addex: ADX71943 Demonstrates Analgesic Effects in Pain Models processed and transmitted by Hugin AS. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Addex Pharmaceuticals (SWISS: ADXN), the allosteric modulation company, announced today that ADX71943 has demonstrated statistically significant analgesic-like effects in three preclinical models of pain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
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Drug management in emergent liver transplantation of mitochondrial disorder carriers: review of the literature
Conclusion: There are no randomized, controlled, trial-based indications regarding safe anesthetic drugs to be used perioperatively in MRCD carriers. Consultation among geneticists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and surgeons is essential in patients with known/suspected metabolic syndrome for planning appropriate perioperative care. (Source: Clinical Transplantation)...
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Cardiovascular effects following epidural injection of romifidine in isoflurane-anaesthetized dogs
Conclusion Epidural romifidine in isoflurane-anaesthetized dogs caused significant cardiovascular effects similar to those reportedly produced by systemic romifidine administration.Clinical relevance Similar cardiovascular monitoring is required after epidural and systemically administered romifidine. Further studies are required to evaluate the analgesic effects of epidural romifidine. (Source: Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia)...
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Modification of Tp-e and QTc intervals during caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia
There are no guidelines for the anaesthetic management of caesarean section in women with long QT syndrome; the description of myocardial ventricular repolarisation in healthy women during caesarean delivery could be a first step. The aim of this study was to describe modification of the QT interval, corrected for heart rate, and the interval between the peak and the end of the T-wave (Tpeak[ndash]Tend interval) during caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. We studied 40 patients scheduled for caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either ephedrine or phenylephrine to prevent hypotension. We injected 5 IU oxytocin after delivery. Corrected QT and Tpeak[ndash]Tend intervals were unchanged from pre-operative values after induction of spina......
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Inhalational anaesthetics and n-alcohols share a site of action in the neuronal Shaw2 Kv channel
Conclusions and implications: These observations strongly support a molecular model of a general anaesthetic binding site in the Shaw2 Kv channel. This site may involve the amphiphilic interface between the S4S5 linker and the S6 segment, which plays a pivotal role in Kv channel activation. (Source: British Journal of Pharmacology)...
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Functional Connectivity of the Macaque Posterior Parahippocampal Cortex
We examined functional connectivity in isoflurane-anesthetized macaques to identify a network associated with posterior parahippocampal cortex (PPHC). Functional connectivity was observed between the PPHC and retrosplenial, posterior cingulate, superior temporal gyrus, and inferior parietal cortex. PPHC correlations were distinct from regions in parietal and temporal cortex activated by an oculomotor task. Comparison of macaque and human PPHC correlations revealed similarities that suggest the temporal-parietal region identified in the macaque may share a common lineage with human Brodmann area 39, a region thought to be involved in recollection. These results suggest that macaques and humans may have homologous PPHC-parietal pathways. By specifying the location of the putative macaque hom......
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Cutaneous Afferents From the Monkeys Fingers: Responses to Tangential and Normal Forces
Control of tangential force plays a key role in everyday manipulations. In anesthetized monkeys, forces tangential to the skin were applied at a range of magnitudes comparable to those used in routine manipulations and in eight different directions. The paradigm used enabled separation of responses to tangential force from responses to the background normal force. For slowly adapting type I (SAI) afferents, tangential force responses ranged from excitatory through no response to suppression, with both a static and dynamic component. For fast adapting type I (FAI) afferents, responses were dynamic and excitatory only. Responses of both afferent types were scaled by tangential force magnitude, elucidating the neural basis for previous human psychophysical scaling data. Most afferents were di......
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Online First publication of Journal of Anesthesia
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory AnnouncementDOI 10.1007/s00540-009-0867-8
Journal Journal of AnesthesiaOnline ISSN 1438-8359Print ISSN 0913-8668
Journal Volume Volume 24
Journal Issue Volume 24, Number 1 / February, 2010 (Source: Journal of Anesthesia)...
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Effects of landiolol on left ventricular function during electroconvulsive therapy: a transthoracic echocardiographic study
Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of landiolol on left ventricular (LV) systolic function, using transthoracic
echocardiography, during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Fourteen patients undergoing ECT were studied. Bilateral ECT was
performed after administration of thiopentone (2 mg/kg), succinylcholine (1 mg/kg), and initiation of assisted mask ventilation
with 100% oxygen. Patients received a bolus injection of landiolol (0.125 mg/kg) or saline immediately after anesthetic induction
and prior to electrical shock. LV systolic function was examined by transthoracic echocardiography prior to anesthetic induction,
throughout the ECT procedure, and for 10 min after the seizure. Electrical shock resulted in a significant decreas......
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Multiplane ultrasound approach to quantify pleural effusion at the bedside
Conclusion Using a multiplane approach increases the accuracy of lung ultrasound to measure the volume of large to small pleural effusions
in critically ill patients.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory OriginalDOI 10.1007/s00134-010-1769-9Authors
Francis Remérand, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hôpital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, UPMC Univ Paris 06 Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Paris FranceJean Dellamonica, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hôpital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, UPMC Univ Paris 06 Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Paris FranceZhang Mao, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hôpital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, UPMC Uni......
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No-sedation Protocol May Shorten ICU Stays
Critically ill intensive care patients who aren't sedated require fewer days on mechanical ventilation and spend less time in the intensive care unit than those who are sedated, according to a study funded by the Danish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine... (Source: SCCM RSS News)...
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Benefits of aprotonin outweigh risks in high-risk cardiac surgery patients
Aprotonin for preventing major blood loss after cardiac surgery has a better risk–benefit profile than tranexamic acid in high-risk, but not low-to-moderate risk patients, study findings show. (Source: MedWire News - Anesthesiology)...
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Methadone And Other Opioids Not Always Equivalent, Conversion Can Be Lethal
In a unique and comprehensive literature review of poisoning deaths involving opioids from 1999 -- 2009, the deaths involving methadone were found to be disproportionately high. Methadone represented less than five percent of all opioid prescriptions but is responsible for a third of the deaths. After four years of investigation, the major underlying cause was found to be fundamental misunderstandings about the properties of the medicine -- a "knowledge deficit" -- especially when converting patients from other opioids... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
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New Research Gives Insight To The Frequency Of 'Doctor Shopping' Occurring Within Prescription Monitoring Programs
Research presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting provides early published data analyzing information gathered from California's prescription monitoring program, known as the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES)... (Source: Pain / Anesthetics News From Medical News Today)...
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New, Targeted Pain Medicine Delivery Systems May Reduce Costs Long Term; Cost To Treat Pain Varies Significantly By Chronic Pain Condition
Estimates of pain care treatment costs exceed $1 billion annually in the United States. Today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting two abstracts looked at the issue. One evaluated intrathecal drug delivery (a targeted medicine delivery system) that could save costs over time. The other analyzed the differences between the costs of treatment for chronic pain treatments... (Source: Pain / Anesthetics News From Medical News Today)...
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Researchers Identify Racial Differences In Pain Treatment Outcomes
Findings from a retrospective analysis of a three-week treatment program for chronic pain revealed African Americans experienced worse outcomes compared to a matched group of Caucasians. The research was presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting in San Antonio... (Source: Pain / Anesthetics News From Medical News Today)...
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New, Targeted Pain Medicine Delivery Systems May Reduce Costs Long Term; Cost To Treat Pain Varies Significantly By Chronic Pain Condition
Estimates of pain care treatment costs exceed $1 billion annually in the United States. Today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting two abstracts looked at the issue. One evaluated intrathecal drug delivery (a targeted medicine delivery system) that could save costs over time. The other analyzed the differences between the costs of treatment for chronic pain treatments. In the first abstract, Scott Guillemette from Ingenix Consulting analyzed costs for intrathecal drug delivery (IDD)... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
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