Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jan 2003
[Headache caused by cerebral angiopathy during labor with epidural analgesia].
A 29-year-old woman presented projectile vomiting followed by frontal headache, immediately upon receiving epidural analgesia for labor. The clinical picture persisted until expulsion. Although no leaking of spinal fluid into the needle or epidural catheter had been observed, post-dural puncture headache was diagnosed. ⋯ Those findings and imaging studies (computed tomography of the brain, transcranial Doppler and magnetic resonance angiography) established a final diagnosis of postpartum cerebral angiopathy. Although epidural analgesia is increasingly requested by women entering labor, it is not a risk-free procedure. We describe a relatively unknown clinical entity, postpartum cerebral angiopathy, that developed during epidural analgesia for labor and that was initially believed to be a complication of the analgesic technique.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jan 2003
Editorial Historical Article[50th Anniversary of the Revista Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación].
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jan 2003
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial[Comparison of the hemodynamic response in subarachnoid anesthesia with bupivacaine versus bupivacaine with fentanyl in traumatology surgery in elderly patients].
To compare the intraoperative hemodynamic effects and ephedrine requirements in elderly patients undergoing orthopedic surgery under subarachnoid anesthesia with hyperbaric bupivacaine with or without fentanyl. ⋯ Adding fentanyl to the local anesthetic used for subarachnoid anesthesia in elderly patients is effective for maintaining greater hemodynamic stability, allowing use of a lower dose of hyperbaric bupivacaine and reducing the need for intravenous ephedrine during surgery.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jan 2003
Historical Article[HYPNOS and Revista Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación, history of a coexistence relationship].
The year 2003 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Revista Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación (Spanish Journal of Anesthesiology and Postoperative Recovery). For that reason, it is appropriate to explore some of the details of the journal's early history. In 1954 and 1955 two official journals of anesthesiology co-existed in Spain: Revista Española de Anestesiología, which was the official organ of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology and Postoperative Recovery, and Hypnos, which was the bulletin of the Association of Anesthesia of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Barcelona. The two publications merged in 1956 as Revista Española de Anestesiología, thereby forming the journal whose name eventually became Revista Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación.