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Deja Vu...
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Plan Ahead...
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ShakeOut, California Style...
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Communicating During a Disaster...
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Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers: Compassionate Use and Compassionate Clinical Trials...
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Deep Hypnosis as a Sign of "Imbalance" in Balanced Anesthesia...
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The Trauma of Awareness: History, Clinical Features, Risk Factors, and Cost...
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Intraoperative Awareness and High-Risk Surgery...
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Safety After Chloral Hydrate Sedation of Former Preterm and Term Infants for Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Are the Data Clear?...
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Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy and the Anesthesiologist: Enough Case Reports. Let's Try to Answer Some Specific Questions!...
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BACKGROUND: In consenting Jehovah's Witness patients and others for whom blood is contraindicated or not available, hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC)-201 may enable survival in acutely anemic patients while underlying conditions are treated.
METHODS: Survival factors were identified in a multicenter, unblinded series of severely anemic "compassionate use" patients ...
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BACKGROUND: A major complication associated with cardiac surgery is excessive and prolonged bleeding in the perioperative period. Improving coagulation by inhibiting fibrinolysis, primarily through inhibition of plasmin activity (PLact) with antifibrinolytics such as tranexamic acid (TXA), has been a pharmacological mainstay in cardiac surgical patients. Despite its almost ubiquitous ...
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BACKGROUND: Blood loss after cardiac surgery can be caused by acquired platelet dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass. Monitoring of platelet function is clinically important for the identification of patients experiencing such platelet dysfunction. 1-Deamino-8-d-arginine vasopressin (desmopressin acetate, DDAVP) has been shown to augment platelet function and to reduce blood loss ...
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Reversible stress-induced cardiomyopathy, i.e., Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, rarely presents in preoperative patients. We provide the case reports of two patients who presented with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, which we surmise was due to excess endogenous catecholamine production in response to acute pain. Electrocardiogram revealed T-wave inversion, with peak Troponin-T elevation in each case, ...
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We present a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy recognized in a patient just before induction of anesthesia. The patient's anxiety about surgery could have been an inciting factor. As the patient's surgery was cancelled and rescheduled for a later date, treatment and strategies to prevent recurrence of the syndrome are discussed....
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Cor Triatriatum Dexter: A Rare Cause of Neonatal Cyanosis...
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Ebstein Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve, Atrial Septal Defect, and Severe Right Ventricular Dysfunction in an Adult: Transesophageal Echocardiographic Images...
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Percutaneous Coronary Sinus Catheter Placement Aided by 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography...
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Extensive Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum with Involvement of the Right Atrium...
Anesthesiology