Anesteziologiia i reanimatologiia
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · May 2010
Case Reports[Paradoxical dynamics in the values of bispectral index for bilateral registration in a patient during parastem tumor removal (a clinical case)].
The paper describes an unusual clinical case. During a neurosurgical operation (removal of parastem tumor (neuroma) on the right side), bilateral registration of the bispectal index (BSI) in order to monitor a hypnotic component of anesthesia showed that the tumor removal stage was marked by a paradoxical reaction of the BSI as an increase in its values up to 70-80% (corresponds to the patient's emergence) on the right, ipsilaterally, with the preserved low BSI values on the left--30-40%. Possible explanations of the observed are considered.
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Chronic non-cancer pain management is an urgent global problem. To set up pain clinics is a promising and economically sound approach. There are pain clinics operating in Russia; however, there are no unified approaches to solving their organizational, therapeutic, and educational-and-methodological problems. An antipain care model is proposed for patients with chronic non-cancer pain, which makes it possible to optimize the treatment of the patients, to train pain specialists, and to enhance the economic efficiency of management.
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Thirty-five autopsy cases of influenza A/HIN1 in Moscow were analyzed. Primary pathological changes were found in the trachea and lung. ⋯ In addition, there were signs of infectious-toxic shock associated with viremia, as suggested by pronounced changes in the brain, kidneys, liver, spleen, adrenals, and lymph nodes. Bacterial bronchopneumonia was detected in only 20% of cases.
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Anesteziol Reanimatol · May 2010
Randomized Controlled Trial[Difficult tracheal intubation: comparative assessment of the value of prognostic indices in using Macintosh and Truview laryngoscopes].
The paper describes the experience in using three predictive criteria, such as Mallampati test, Patila test, and ULBT test, to evaluate tracheal intubation and compares their predictive validity. The experience in applying Macintosh and Truview laryngoscopes to patients with predicted difficult tracheal intubation (DTI) is also depicted. ⋯ No significant correlation was obtained between the other criteria of DTI and the difficulties during intubation at the first attempt (p > 0.05). There was no statistical significant correlation between the used type of a laryngoscope and the rate of effective/ineffective intubations at the first attempt (r = 0.34; p > 0.05).