Disease relevance of Anesthesiology

• The specific antagonists of the 5-hydroxytryptamine-3 (5-HT3) receptor have been progressively introduced in anesthesiology to prevent or treat PONV [1].
• Antibiotic utilization decreased in the second semester at most clinics: at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases 41%, at the Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit 30%, at the Clinic for Internal Medicine 18% and at the Surgical Clinic 12% [2].
• In addition, uses of Li2CO3 in asthma, thyroid diseases, granulocytopenia, headache, bowel disease, anesthesiology, cardiology, and sleep disorders are summarized [3].
• Early insights into the clinical impact of pharmacogenetics were provided by anesthesiology - investigations into prolonged apnea after succinylcholine administration, thiopental-induced porphyria and malignant hyperthermia contributed to the novel science of pharmacogenetics in the early 1960s [4].
• BACKGROUND: Super Lizer trade mark is a linear polarized light instrument, which has been used with good effect in orthopedics and anesthesiology to treat arthralgia and neuralgia with a high output of infrared radiation [5].

High impact information on Anesthesiology

• This study suggests that drug rehabilitation followed by redirection into another specialty may be the most prudent course for the anesthesiology trainee who abuses parenteral opioids [6].
• For ten years prior to the intraspinal use of methylprednisolone acetate, basic scientists in anesthesiology and neurochemistry had published the following facts: (1) Methylprednisolone acetate's content of polyethylene glycol raises the risks of using it near the central nervous system [7].
• Multidisciplinary assessment and care to minimize short- and long-term risks include: comprehensive medical screening; appropriate pre-, peri-, and postoperative preparation; collaboration with multiple patient care disciplines (e.g., anesthesiology, pulmonary medicine, cardiology, and psychology); and long-term nutrition education/counseling [8].
• Finally, potential changes in receipts of the Departments of Anesthesiology, Radiology, Surgery, and Medicine were compared by considering only patients with insurance and recalculating total payments to the departments using Medicare rates [9].
• Differential latex allergy prevalence in anesthesiology subspecialties [10].

Biological context of Anesthesiology

• SETTING: Departments of Ophthalmology and Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey [11].
• Such agents include drugs that may be abused by pregnant mothers [phencyclidine (angel dust), ketamine (Special K), nitrous oxide (laughing gas), barbiturates, benzodiazepines], and many medicinals used in obstetric and pediatric neurology (anticonvulsants), and anesthesiology (all general anesthetics are either NMDA antagonists or GABAmimetics) [12].
• Inhalation anesthesiology and volatile liquid anesthetics: focus on isoflurane, desflurane, and sevoflurane [13].
• Emla cream is frequently used in surgical dermatology and in anesthesiology, for instance, during vascular surgery procedures [14].
• Genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to anesthetic gases (halothane and nitrous oxide) were studied in 24 persons working at departments of anesthesiology and resuscitation (14 anesthesiologists and 10 anesthesiologic nurses) [15].

Associations of Anesthesiology with chemical compounds

• Death as the initial relapse symptom occurred in 16% (13/79) of the parenteral opioid abusers who were allowed to reenter anesthesiology training [6].
• Specific bradycardic agents, a new therapeutic modality for anesthesiology: hemodynamic effects of UL-FS 49 and propranolol in conscious and isoflurane-anesthetized dogs [16].
• Potential hazards and applications of lithium in anesthesiology [17].
• CONCLUSIONS: Remifentanil is a new, short-acting opioid with promising clinical potential in anesthesiology [18].
• Plasma warfarin half-life and prothrombin response in seven anesthesiology residents were 32.1 +/- 3.6 hours and 1337 +/- 78 sec-hr at the start of their training period, i.e., before working in the operating room [19].

Gene context of Anesthesiology

• DESIGN: Survey questionnaire of all CA1 and CA2 residents in the Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. SETTING: University hospital [20].
• A survey of academic anesthesiology. Submitted by ASA Subcommittee (Task Force) on Academic Anesthesia Manpower [21].
• The development of academic anesthesiology at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute: James O. Elam, MD, and Elwyn S. Brown, MD [22].
• Future studies to critically evaluate the practice of EBM in anesthesiology and critical care would be helpful [23].
• Plasma fibronectin: relevance for anesthesiology and intensive care [24].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Anesthesiology

• SETTING: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in Osaka City University Medical School. MODEL: Human blood deoxygenated by bubbling of nitrogen was circulated in a closed circuit at 10-120 mL/min by a roller pump [25].
• A controlled, double-blind study was made of the efficacy and safety of a new hypnotic, zopiclone, on the preoperative night's sleep by a Joint Study Unit Group of the anesthesiology departments in 6 national hospitals [26].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study included 15 patients (14 men and one woman, aged 72-87 years, American Society of Anesthesiology score 3) with symptomatic recurrent bleeding bladder cancer (T2/T3) who were treated with palliative cystectomy [27].
• In collaboration with the Departments of Anesthesiology, Dentistry, and Respiratory Therapy, we constructed a continuous-flow system for delivering N2O and oxygen (O2) [28].
• For example, an anesthesiology resident used the Healthcare Matrix for a complex 18-hour episode of care with a life-threatening situation [29].

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