Minerva anestesiologica
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Pediatric regional anesthesia (PRA) is widely practiced today; reassuring data from international literature show its safety and efficacy. However, for many years, PRA was considered an extravagant and ineffective technique by many detractors.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Mar 2009
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyEpidural plus general anesthesia vs general anesthesia alone for elective aortic surgery: effects on gastric electrical activity and serum gastrin secretion.
The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in electrogastrographic activity and serum gastrin secretion in patients subjected to general anesthesia (GA) vs blended anesthesia (BA = GA plus epidural analgesia) for abdominal aortic surgery. ⋯ An excess of EGG activity and serum gastrin secretion was observed in patients undergoing GA vs those submitted to BA. Thus, the latter procedure seems to affect gastric function less than GA alone.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Mar 2009
Promoting epidural analgesia for labor: 2005-2007 diffusion in Lombardia, Italy.
Since January 2005 the Regional Government of Lombardia, a large Italian region with over 1/5 of all Italian births, allocated public funds for 3 consecutive years to help provide epidural analgesia (EA) for women in labor. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the trend of diffusion of EA in the triennium 2005-2007. ⋯ The continuous increase of EA for labor after regional financings suggests that the low rate of pain relief procedures in Lombardia was mainly due to economic and organizational issues, rather than to cultural and psychological factors.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Mar 2009
Letter Case ReportsDifficult removal of an epidural catheter in a postpartum woman.