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Contents: Volume 90, Issue 4 (April 2000)   [Index by Author]       Other Issues: Previous Next
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      Down CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA
      Down AMBULATORY ANESTHESIA
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      Down OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA
      Down REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND PAIN MEDICINE
      Down GENERAL ARTICLES
      Down ECONOMICS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH
      Down TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
      Down CASE REPORTS
      Down MEETING REPORT
      Down LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
      Down BOOK AND MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS

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EDITORIALS:Back

B. Scott Segal and David J. Birnbach
Epidurals and Cesarean Deliveries: A New Look at an Old Problem
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 775-777. [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA:Back

Kyung W. Park, Kaori Sato, Hai B. Dai, Mark E. Comunale, and Frank W. Sellke

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 778-783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass does not result in epithelial dysfunction in pigs. Epithelium-dependent and epithelium-independent bronchodilators may be equally effective before and after cardiopulmonary bypass.

Klaus Laczika, Florian Thalhammer, Gottfried Locker, Robert Apsner, Heidrun Losert, Julia Kofler, Werner Rabitsch, Peter Mares, Michael Frass, Gere Sunder-Plassmann, and Manfred Muhm

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 784-789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Temporary transvenous cardiac pacing can yield high complication rates especially under emergency conditions. We investigated emergency pacing via the right supraclavicular access in 17 consecutive hemodynamically compromised patients and found good safety, efficacy, and a low complication rate.

Eiji Hashiba, Kazuyoshi Hirota, Hideki Yoshioka, Yoshio Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Kudo, Tetsumi Sato, and Akitomo Matsuki

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 790-794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: We studied the effects of milrinone on serotonin-induced pulmonary hypertension and bronchoconstriction in dogs. Milrinone produces pulmonary vasodilation and bronchodilation, whose effects may not be caused by {beta}-adrenoceptor activation. In addition, this drug may be more sensitive to phosphodiesterase III in the airway smooth muscle than that in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle.

Georg A. Petroianu, Jie Liu, Wolfgang H. Maleck, Cathrine Mattinger, and Wolfgang F. Bergler

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 795-800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Blood coagulation may be compromised when the dilution ratio of blood volume to colloid solution volume is >10:4. Whereas gelatin solutions have less intrinsic effect on blood coagulation than hydroxyethyl starch or dextran, 10% dextran 40 has the strongest effect on coagulation.

Jill E. Knutson, Jane A. Deering, Frank W. Hall, Gregory A. Nuttall, Darrell R. Schroeder, Roger D. White, and Charles J. Mullany

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 801-807. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Our large retrospective study suggests that intraoperative use of hetastarch in primary cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass may increase bleeding and transfusion requirements. A large prospective study is needed to determine if intraoperative administration of hetastarch should be avoided during cardiovascular surgery.

Sibylle A. Kozek-Langenecker, S. Fazal Mohammad, Takahisa Masaki, Craig Kamerath, and Alfred K. Cheung

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 808-812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: This experimental in vitro study demonstrates that heparin and its reversal agents affect platelet secretion and aggregation.

Linda Shore-Lesserson, Heather E. Manspeizer, Maria Bolastig, Donna Harrington, Frances Vela-Cantos, and Marietta DePerio

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 813-818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The diminished activated clotting time response to heparin, in patients receiving preoperative heparin therapy, poses difficulties when attempting to provide adequate anticoagulation for cardiopulmonary bypass. Current data suggest that heparin resistance is not observed when high-dose thrombin time is used to monitor anticoagulation and that a lower activated clotting time value in these patients may be safe.

Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, G. Robin Barclay, Michael E. Youssef, Sabera Hossain, Frances Vela-Cantos, Lewis A. Andres, and Ian R. Poxton

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 819-823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: We prospectively measured hemodilution-corrected antiendotoxin antibody levels in 55 cardiac surgical patients. We observed significant decreases in hemodilution-corrected levels of antibody to both Bacteroides fragilis and the core of endotoxin.

Anna Stadnicka, Zeljko J. Bosnjak, John P. Kampine, and Wai-Meng Kwok

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 824-833. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Differential modulation of myocardial inward rectifier potassium current by volatile anesthetics under normal and altered rectification may contribute to the mechanism of dysrhythmic actions by these anesthetics.

Pekka Talke, Richard Chen, Brian Thomas, Anil Aggarwall, Alexandru Gottlieb, Per Thorborg, Stephen Heard, Albert Cheung, Stanley Lee Son, and Antero Kallio

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 834-839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The {alpha}2 agonist, dexmedetomidine, attenuates increases in heart rate and plasma norepinephrine concentrations during emergence from anesthesia in vascular surgery patients.

Arthur W. Wallace and Wynnis L. Tom

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 840-846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Amrinone and milrinone, Type III cAMP-dependent phosphodiesterase inhibitors, are additive to L-arginine-dependent vasodilation. Zaprinast and sildenafil, Type V cGMP-dependent phosphodiesterase inhibitors, are synergistic with L-arginine.

Yoshihiro Hamaya, Shuji Dohi, and Chika Takenaka-Hamaya

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 847-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Localized airway anesthesia with lidocaine is unlikely to suppress the cardiovascular responses to lung inflation. This suggests that a limited number of neurogenic mechanisms are involved in the cardiovascular responses to lung inflation in anesthetized humans.

Markus Rehm, Victoria Orth, Uwe Kreimeier, Manfred Thiel, Mathias Haller, Heinz Brechtelsbauer, and Udilo Finsterer
Four Cases of Radical Hysterectomy with Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution Despite Low Preoperative Hematocrit Values (Brief Report)
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 852-855. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hirokatsu Toyoyama, Nobutaka Kariya, and Yoshiro Toyoda
Electrocardiographic Artifacts During Shoulder Arthroscopy Using a Pressure-Controlled Irrigation Pump (Case Report)
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 856-857. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

AMBULATORY ANESTHESIA:Back

Shyamala Badrinath, Michail N. Avramov, Melissa Shadrick, Thomas R. Witt, and Anthony D. Ivankovich

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 858-862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Ketamine, when used in subhypnotic dosages, may be an useful adjuvant to propofol sedation.

PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA:Back

Peter J. Davis, Julia C. Finkel, Rosemary J. Orr, Lisa Fazi, John J. Mulroy, Susan K. Woelfel, Raafat S. Hannallah, Anne M. Lynn, C. Dean Kurth, Michele Moro, Lynn G. Henson, David K. Goodman, and Meredith D. Decker

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 863-871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

Implications: This is a study designed to examine the efficacy and safety of a short-acting opioid, remifentanil, when used in pediatric patients. The frequent incidence of postoperative pain observed in the postoperative recovery room suggests that better intraoperative prophylactic analgesic regimens for postoperative pain control are necessary to optimize remifentanil's use as an anesthetic for children.

William T. Denman, Emily L. Swanson, David Rosow, Kristen Ezbicki, Patricia D. Connors, and Carl E. Rosow

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 872-877. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The use of bispectral index (BIS) during general anesthesia improves the titration of anesthetics in adults. The data from this study suggest that the same equipment and method of electroencephalogram analysis may be applied to infants and children.

Steve M. Auden
Additional Techniques for Managing the Difficult Pediatric Airway (Case Report)
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 878-880. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA:Back

Philip E. Hess, Stephen D. Pratt, Anil K. Soni, Mukesh C. Sarna, and Nancy E. Oriol

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 881-886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

Implications: This is a retrospective observational study demonstrating an association between labor pain and cesarean delivery. Our results provide an alternative explanation of why epidural analgesia is associated with cesarean delivery.

Craig M. Palmer, Wallace M. Nogami, Gretchen Van Maren, and Diane M. Alves

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 887-891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Quality of analgesia increases as the dose of epidural morphine increases to at least 3.75 mg; increasing the dose further to 5 mg did not improve analgesia. Side effects were not dose related. For optimal analgesia, augmentation of epidural morphine with systemic analgesics or other epidural medications may be necessary.

Jeffrey S. Jacobs, Ricardo Vallejo, Gerard J. DeSouza, and Menno F. TerRiet
Severe Hypoglycemia After Labor Epidural Analgesia (Case Report)
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 892-893. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND PAIN MEDICINE:Back

Roberto García-Aguado, Francisco Gil, Juan A. Barcia, José Aznar, Francisco Hostalet, José Barberá, and Francisco Grau

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 894-898. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: In this swine study, we repaired a cerebrospinal fluid leak after a dural puncture by percutaneously injecting tissue adhesive. The technique of percutaneous injection of fibrin glue seems promising for the prophylaxis of headache associated with cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and may be an alternative to an epidural blood patch.

Steen Møiniche, Henrik Jørgensen, Jørn Wetterslev, and Jørgen Berg Dahl

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 899-912. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: A systematic review summarizes, through transparent methodology, available information from randomized, controlled trials to produce the best available evidence-based estimate of a "true" clinical effect of an intervention. This systematic review confirms intraperitoneal and mesosalpinx local anesthetic block, not port-site infiltration, to have some impact on postoperative pain after laparoscopy.

Jeffrey S. Kroin, Robert J. McCarthy, Natasha Von Roenn, Brady Schwab, Kenneth J. Tuman, and Anthony D. Ivankovich

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 913-917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Magnesium sulfate potentiates morphine analgesia when coadministered intrathecally in normal rats, and in an animal model of mechanical allodynia after a surgical incision. These results suggest that intrathecal administration of magnesium sulfate may be a useful adjunct to spinal morphine analgesia.

Roxane Fournier, Elizabeth Van Gessel, Anne Weber, and Zdravko Gamulin

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 918-922. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: We compared the postoperative analgesic properties of 40 {micro}g intrathecal fentanyl and 7.5 {micro}g sufentanil after total hip replacement. Both opioids provided satisfactory analgesia, with comparable onset (11 {+/-} 8 vs 9 {+/-} 9 min) and duration of action (214 {+/-} 120 vs 241 {+/-} 102 min), as well as low incidence of minor side effects.

Peter D. Drummond

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 923-927. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: This study shows that opiate receptor block paradoxically inhibits sensitivity to heat-pain in inflamed skin during body cooling. The findings suggest that endogenous opioids release substances from nerves or other cells during inflammation, which heighten pain. Thus, opioids may fine-tune pain and the inflammatory response while healing takes place.

Tomohiro Yamakura, Kenji Sakimura, and Koki Shimoji

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 928-932. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: At acidic pH the potency of meperidine for N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor channels was increased. Any antinociceptive and neuroprotective benefit from the N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor antagonist property of meperidine may be pH dependent.

Nathalie Do Quang-Cantagrel, Mark S. Wallace, and Scott K. Magnuson

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 933-937. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [En Espanol]  [Request Permissions]  

Implications: This study showed that if a patient receiving chronic opioid therapy experiences an intolerable side effect or if the drug is ineffective, changing to a different opioid may result in a lessening or elimination of the side effect and/or improved analgesia.

Christine G. Cattaneo, Steven M. Frank, Todd W. Hesel, Hossam K. El-Rahmany, Lauren J. Kim, and Kha M. Tran

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 938-945. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Body temperature should be monitored during spinal anesthesia because patients are at significant risk for hypothermia. Rectal temperature is a valid method of measuring core temperature, whereas other methods tend to underestimate true core temperature.

GENERAL ARTICLES:Back

Stefan Scheingraber, Lars Heitmann, Werner Weber, and Udilo Finsterer

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 946-950. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: We measured acid base status in 20 patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate comparing a larger fluid absorption group with a minor or no fluid absorption group. We postulate the development of a typical metabolic transurethral resection of the prostate-acidosis caused by irrigant absorption.

Pierre A. Diemunsch, Klaus D. Torp, Thomas Van Dorsselaer, Didier Mutter, Anne M. Diemunsch, Roland Schaeffer, Gérard Teller, and Alain Van Dorsselaer

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 951-953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Pig models were used to evaluate the time course of nitrous oxide (N2O) diffusion in the pneumoperitoneum during nitrous oxide/oxygen anesthesia. Although peritoneal N2O concentration approaches the end-expiratory value after 8-10 h, it reaches 29% within 2 h. At this level, N2O is known to support combustion. This N2O pollution should be prevented.

Swen N. Piper, Wolfgang H. Maleck, Joachim Boldt, Stefan W. Suttner, Christian C. Schmidt, and Daniel G. P. Reich

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 954-957. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Shivering (irregular muscle activity) is common after surgery and anesthesia. This study compared urapidil (an antihypertensive drug) as a prophylaxis with two established antishivering drugs (meperidine and clonidine) and placebo. In the dosage used, we were unable to show a significant benefit of urapidil.

Ricardo M. Urtubia, Carmen M. Aguila, and Miguel A. Cumsille

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 958-962. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The esophageal-tracheal Combitube(R) Model 37F SA (Kendall-Sheridan Catheter Corp., Argyle, NY) may be used in patients from 122 to 185 cm in height. The trachea could be directly intubated with the Combitube(R) in esophageal position in patients with normal airways. The airway protection appears to be adequate.

Pascale Picard and Martin R. Tramèr

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 963-969. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: IV lidocaine (0.5 mg/kg) should be given with a rubber tourniquet on the forearm, 30 to 120 s before the injection of propofol; lidocaine will prevent pain in approximately 60% of the patients treated in this manner.

Krampfl Klaus, Schlesinger Friedrich, Dengler Reinhardt, and Johannes Bufler

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 970-974. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The interaction between adult-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, acetylcholine, and pentobarbital was biophysically investigated by using the patch-clamp technique in combination with tools for ultrafast solution exchange. PB elicited open-channel block and competitive block of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel currents, whereas the latter seems to be effective in clinically relevant concentrations.

ECONOMICS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH:Back

Franklin Dexter and Rodney D. Traub

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 975-979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: Our statistical method uses historical case duration data from an operating room information system to estimate the actual probability to within 1.5% that the second case of a pair will last longer than the first case of a pair.

Franklin Dexter, Alex Macario, and Liam O’Neill

Anesth Analg 2000 90: 980-988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Implications: The strategy we developed provides surgeons and patients with some flexibility in scheduling, while increasing OR staffing costs only slightly over the minimum achieved when the OR manager controls scheduling. Staffing costs were lowest when the operating room (OR) manager did not incorporate surgeon and patient preferences when scheduling cases into overflow block time.

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS:Back

Yoko Masaki, Makoto Tanaka, and Toshiaki Nishikawa
Changes in Propofol Concentration in a Propofol-Lidocaine 9:1 Volume Mixture
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 989-992. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS:Back

Si-Tun Fung, Yan-Yuen Poon, Zu-Kong Chong, Bruno Jawan, and Ju-Hao Lee
Removal of an Aspirated Prosthetic Tooth by Tracheal Backflow Air
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 993-994. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MEETING REPORT:Back

Tom Elwood and Lynn D. Martin
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, Dallas, Texas, October 8, 1999
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 995-999. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:Back

Hirokatsu Toyoyama, Koh Mizutani, Yoshiro Toyoda, R. Slappendel, B. Benraad, R. Dirksen, E. W. G. Weber, M. J. M. Gielen, and J. van Limbeek
One Drop of Morphine Added to Local Anesthetics by Means of a 23-Gauge Injection Needle Can Relieve Postoperative Pain Under Spinal Anesthesia Response
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1000. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Takashi Asai and Koh Shingu
One-Lung Ventilation in the Patient with Laryngeal or Tracheal Stenosis
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1000-1001. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. B. Backman and G. Kostopanagiotou
Anticholinesterases and the Transplanted Heart Response
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1001. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven V. Sherman, Michael H. Wall, and Jack S. Shanewise
Assessment of LV Diastolic Function Response
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1001-1002. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Torsten Meier, Thorsten Leibecke, Jan Schumacher, Klaus Berger, and Karl F. Klotz
Detection of a Tracheal Obstruction Caused by a Retrosternal Goiter by the Use of a Cuff Leak Test
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1002. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Serge M. Broka, Philippe E. Dubois, and Kurt L. Joucken
A Structural Deficiency of TCI Syringes
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1002-1003. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ayman Elfar and Steve D. Barnes
A Real Eye-Opener!
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1003-1004. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea G. Schellenberg, Bonnie L. Milas, and Linda Chen
Atrioventricular Dissociation
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1004. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Kranke, Christian C. Apfel, Norbert Roewer, and Yoshitaka Fujii
Reported Data on Granisetron and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting by Fujii et al. Are Incredibly Nice! Response
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1004-1007. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D. Gozal and Y. Gozal
Nonpharmacologic Sedation in a Deaf Child
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1007. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paolo Biban, Simone Rugolotto, and Giuseppe Zoppi
Fiberoptic Endotracheal Intubation Through an Ultra-Thin Bronchoscope with Suction Channel in a Newborn with Difficult Airway
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1007. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emma Chojnowska and Gary McCleane
Which Intravenous Sodium Channel Blocker for Neuropathic Pain? Response
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1007-1008. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael S. Stix and Eduardo Mancini
How a Rigid Stylet Can Make an Endotracheal Tube Move
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1008. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BOOK AND MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS:Back

Lauren Berkow, Norig Ellison, and Thomas J. Gal
Handbook of Neuroanesthesia. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Vol 3 in the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology Series. Nunn’s Applied Respiratory Physiology. 5th ed. Books and Multimedia Received
Anesth Analg 2000 90: 1009-1010. [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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