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Patients will be prospectively enrolled from Carolinas Hernia Center's outpatient clinic. All paraesophageal hernia patients, age 18 and older, undergoing PEH repair at CHS will be included. We will conduct a two-arm prospective randomized study, IV Lidocaine versus placebo, to study the reduction
Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have associated atherosclerotic renal and cerebral disease making these organs especially vulnerable to ischemia during open heart surgery. At the Heart Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen the investigators perform more than 1000 open heart surgery
Introduction
Elderly patients are usually presented with higher risk for developing cardiopulmonary complications after general anesthesia (GA). The risk of adverse events in elderly patients increases with the combination of intraoperative fentanyl, opioid premedication and neuromuscular blockers.
Oxygen therapy refers to the administration of oxygen at higher concentrations than room air. According to the most recent American Association for Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Guidelines, indications for supplemental oxygen include hypoxemia, severe trauma, acute myocardial infarction, short
Background: Induction of anesthesia consists with administration of anesthetics followed by endotracheal intubation. During the induction of anesthesia moderate hemodynamic disturbances (either systemic arterial hyper- or hypo-tension) are common due to concurrent autonomic nervous system
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While atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia requiring therapy, it is also associated with increased risk of stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, dementia, and death. The number of Americans affected with AF is expected to surge to nearly 16
The investigators hypothesize that the use of a patient-controlled lumbar epidural analgesia (PCEA) will reduce pain scores and improve patient's satisfaction after uterine artery embolization.
The present study is aiming to compare the efficacy of PCEA and continuous epidural infusion of
There is a significant disconnect between the escalating healthcare problem of opioid use for chronic pain, and the development of novel therapeutic strategies. A plausible strategy is to interrupt the vicious cycle of pain, inflammation and hyperesthesia is using highly efficacious non-opioid drugs
All patients will be visited by a member of our team a day prior to surgery to seek an informed consent and to answer any questions. A set of laboratory results (see below) will be sought.
A test (Mini Mental test) will be performed to evaluate patients' cognitive functions. Our patients are
Introduction:
Intranasal injection of epinephrine is used routinely during endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) to reduce bleeding in the nasal mucosa and hence improve visualization of the surgical field [1, 2].
Systemic absorption of epinephrine via the nasal mucosa, due to its vasoconstriction ability
Background:
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax most commonly occurs in young, tall, lean males (1, 2). The estimated recurrence rate is 23-50% after the first episode (3). Optimal treatment of patients presenting with a first episode of primary spontaneous pneumothorax remains unknown. In the recently
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a catastrophic event and most commonly results from acute ventricular tachyarrhythmias (abnormal and lethal heart rhythms). It is often triggered by acute coronary events, which may occur in persons without known cardiac disease or in association with structural heart
Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism, is heterogeneous in etiology and clinical manifestations. Affected patients with cblA, cblB and mut classes of MMA are medically fragile and can suffer from complications such as metabolic stroke or