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Landmark obstetric anesthesia papers

Anesthesia Epidural Intrathecal Obstetric anesthesia
A collection of landmark research articles relevant to obstetric anesthesia. Some, such as Hawkins' audits of U.S. maternal deaths, are significant because of their historical impact. Others hold direct clinical relevance for practice today.
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  Anesthesia-related deaths during obstetric delivery in the United States, 1979-1990.
  
  Anesthesiology. 1997 Feb 1;86(2):277-84.
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  Anesthesia-related maternal mortality in the United States: 1979-2002.
  
  Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Jan 1;117(1):69-74.
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  Difficult and failed intubation in obstetric anaesthesia: an observational study of airway management and complications associated with general anaesthesia for caesarean section.
  
  Int J Obstet Anesth. 2008 Oct 1;17(4):292-7.
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The History of Anesthesia

Anesthesia History
Papers focusing on the history of anesthesia – both modern articles and the original historical, landmark articles themselves.
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- Biography
  
  Mastectomy without anesthesia: the cases of Abigail Adams Smith and Fanny Burney.
  
  Am. J. Med.. 2011 May 1;124(5):474.
- Biography
  
  Horace Wells (1815-1848).
  
  Anaesth Intensive Care. 1996 Aug 1;24(4):415.
- Biography
  
  Lessons from history: Horace Wells and the moral features of clinical contexts.
  
  Anesth Prog. 1995 Jan 1;42(1):1-6.
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Post-operative awareness monitoring & prevention

Anesthesia Awareness Monitoring
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Bispectral index monitoring to prevent awareness during anaesthesia: the B-Aware randomised controlled trial.
  
  Lancet. 2004 May 29;363(9423):1757-63.
  
  BIS monitoring significantly reduces the risk of awareness under general anesthesia in high-risk adult surgical patients.
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- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population.
  
  N. Engl. J. Med. 2011 Aug 18;365(7):591-600.
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  The effect of bispectral index monitoring on long-term survival in the B-aware trial.
  
  Anesth. Analg. 2010 Mar 1;110(3):816-22.
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Perioperative Gabapentin and Pregabalin

Analgesia Anesthesia Gaba agents
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Clinical Study Evaluating Pregabalin Efficacy and Tolerability for Pain Management in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.
  
  Clin J Pain. 2014 Nov 1;30(11):944-52.
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  A randomized placebo-controlled trial of two doses of pregabalin for postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy.
  
  Can J Anaesth. 2014 Jun 1;61(6):551-7.
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Perioperative gabapentin reduces 24 h opioid consumption and improves in-hospital rehabilitation but not post-discharge outcomes after total knee arthroplasty with peripheral nerve block.
  
  Br J Anaesth. 2014 Nov 1;113(5):855-64.
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Sinus surgery, intravenous anaesthesia and bleeding

Anesthesia Hemorrhage Total intravenous anesthesia
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Blood loss during endoscopic sinus surgery with propofol or sevoflurane: a randomized clinical trial.
  
  JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2013 May 1;139(5):510-4.
- Review
  
  Systematic review and meta-analysis of total intravenous anesthesia and endoscopic sinus surgery.
  
  Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2013 Oct 1;3(10):848-54.
- Randomized Controlled Trial
  
  Effects of three different types of anaesthesia on perioperative bleeding control in functional endoscopic sinus surgery.
  
  Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 Jul 1;270(7):2045-50.
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