Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2002
ReviewPostherniorrhaphy urinary retention--effect of local, regional, and general anesthesia: a review.
Postherniorrhaphy urinary retention (UR) may depend on the anesthetic technique. We therefore reviewed available published studies of UR in relation to anesthetic technique. ⋯ The low incidence of UR with LA is in accordance with the inhibitory effects of RA and GA on bladder function. Data from newer short-acting techniques of GA and RA are required to define the optimal anesthetic for inguinal herniorrhaphy.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2002
ReviewCardiac toxicity of local anesthetics in the intact isolated heart model: a review.
An editorial in 1979 by George Albright about sudden cardiac arrest after regional anesthesia spawned an era of intense research focusing on what local anesthetics do to the heart and how they do it. The ultimate goal of the research was to bring to the clinician long-acting local anesthetics that are less cardiotoxic than ones available before 1979, bupivacaine and etidocaine, in particular. In this article, I will review results of studies of local anesthetic cardiotoxicity using the intact mammalian heart in vitro published after the Albright editorial through 2001.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Nov 2002
Review Historical ArticleTransient neurologic symptoms: etiology, risk factors, and management.