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Subarachnoid block with low dose of bupivacaine and sufentanil in patients with coronary artery disease.
Abstract: Subarachnoid block with local anesthetics and opioids enable efficacious spinal anesthesia because of their synergistic effect and permit the use of low-dose local anesthetics, which results in a stable hemodynamic state. The purpose of this study was to...
SirT1 mediates hyperbaric oxygen preconditioning-induced ischemic tolerance in rat brain.
Abstract: Our previous studies have shown that hyperbaric oxygen preconditioning (HBO-PC) induces tolerance to cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). This study aimed to investigate whether SirT1, a class III histone deacetylase, is involved in neuroprotection elicited...
Clinical Trial – Efficacy of Peripheral Nerve Stimulator in Assessing Sensory Nerve Block Level of Spinal Anesthesia
Various methods are used to assess the level of anesthesia block after spinal anesthesia.
Among them, ice cubes, alcohol swabs, and needles are commonly used in the clinical setting,
but ice is limited by difficulties with management and transportation, and needle assessment
has problems owing to the risk of pain, infection, and injury to the patient.
Hence, the alcohol swab is commonly used in practice. However, the absence of pain is more
important in the surgical process, and assessing the pain block level is more feasible in
practice than assessing the sensory nerve block level using the alcohol swab.
Therefore, it seems to be better to use the peripheral nerve stimulator for the accurate
assessment of the pain block level. This has the advantage of continuous measurement of the
block level, which can be used in a practical manner in conjunction with the surgical
incision.
Hence, the author compared the conventional method using the alcohol swab with the use of the
peripheral nerve stimulator to determine which method is more practical in the measurement of
spinal anesthesia block level.