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Dexter F, Epstein RH, Ip V, Marian AA. Inhalational Agent Dosing Behaviors of Anesthesia Practitioners Cause Variability in End-Tidal Concentrations at the End of Surgery and Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation. Cureus 2024; 16:e65527. [PMID: 39188447 PMCID: PMC11346799 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.65527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/27/2024] [Indexed: 08/28/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION Prolonged times to tracheal extubation are intervals from the end of surgery to extubation ≥15 minutes. We examined why there are associations with the end-tidal inhalational agent concentration as a proportion of the age‑adjusted minimum alveolar concentration (MAC fraction) at the end of surgery. METHODS The retrospective cohort study used 11.7 years of data from one hospital. All p‑values were adjusted for multiple comparisons. RESULTS There was a greater odds of prolonged time to extubation if the anesthesia practitioner was a trainee (odds ratio 1.68) or had finished fewer than five cases with the surgeon during the preceding three years (odds ratio 1.12) (both P<0.0001). There was a greater risk of prolonged time to extubation if the MAC fraction was >0.4 at the end of surgery (odds ratio 2.66, P<0.0001). Anesthesia practitioners who were trainees and all practitioners who had finished fewer than five cases with the surgeon had greater mean MAC fractions at the end of surgery and had greater relative risks of the MAC fraction >0.4 at the end of surgery (all P<0.0001). The source for greater MAC fractions at the end of surgery was not greater MAC fractions throughout the anesthetic because the means during the case did not differ among groups. Rather, there was substantial variability of MAC fractions at the end of surgery among cases of the same anesthesia practitioner, with the mean (standard deviation) among practitioners of each practitioner's standard deviation being 0.35 (0.05) and the coefficient of variation being 71% (13%). CONCLUSION More prolonged extubations were associated with greater MAC fractions at the end of surgery. The cause of the large MAC fractions was the substantial variability of MAC fractions among cases of each practitioner at the end of surgery. That variability matches what was expected from earlier studies, both from variability among practitioners in their goals for the MAC fraction given at the start of surgical closure and from inadequate dynamic forecasting of the timing of when surgery would end. Future studies should examine how best to reduce prolonged extubations by using anesthesia machines' display of MAC fraction and feedback control of end-tidal agent concentration.
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- Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
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- Anesthesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, CAN
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Clevenger KR, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Sondekoppam R, Marian AA. Anesthesia Practitioners' Goals for Sevoflurane Minimum Alveolar Concentration at the End of Surgery and the Incidence of Prolonged Extubations: A Prospective and Observational Study. Cureus 2024; 16:e63371. [PMID: 39070308 PMCID: PMC11283767 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.63371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Prolonged times to tracheal extubation (≥15 minutes from dressing on the patient) are consequential based on their clinical and economic effect. We evaluated the variability among anesthesia practitioners in their goals for the age-adjusted end-tidal minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane (MAC) at surgery end and achievement of their goals. METHODS We prospectively studied a cohort of 56 adult patients undergoing general anesthesia with sevoflurane as the sole anesthetic agent, scheduled operating room time of at least 3 hours, and non-prone positioning. At the start of surgical closure, an observer asked the anesthesia practitioner their goal for MAC when the surgical drapes are lowered (i.e., the functional end of surgery for the studied procedures). When the drapes were lowered, the MAC achieved was recorded, and the values were compared. RESULTS The standard deviation of the practitioners' MAC goal was large, 0.199 (N = 56 cases, 95% confidence interval 0.17-0.24), not significantly different from the standard deviation of the MAC achieved of 0.253, P = 0.071. The MAC goal and MAC achieved were correlated pairwise, Pearson r =0.65, P < 0.0001. There was no incremental effect of operating room conversation(s) related to case progress on the association (partial correlation ‑0.01, P = 0.96). Differences among practitioners in the MAC achieved at surgery end were consequential. Specifically, for the N = 12 cases with prolonged extubation, the mean MAC was 0.60 (standard deviation 0.10) versus 0.48 (0.21) among the N = 44 cases without prolonged extubation (P = 0.0070). CONCLUSIONS The standard deviation of the MAC goal among practitioners was sufficiently large to contribute significantly to the variability in the MAC achieved at the end of surgery. We confirmed prospectively that the age-adjusted end-tidal MAC at the end of surgery matters clinically and economically because differences of 0.60 versus 0.48 were associated with more prolonged extubations. Our novel finding is that the MAC achieved ≥0.60 were caused in part by the anesthesia practitioners' stated MAC goals when surgical closures started.
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- Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
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Chen PF, Dexter F. Generalized Confidence Intervals for Ratios of Standard Deviations Based on Log-Normal Distribution when Times Follow Weibull Distributions. J Med Syst 2024; 48:58. [PMID: 38822876 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-024-02073-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 05/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/03/2024]
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Modern anesthetic drugs ensure the efficacy of general anesthesia. Goals include reducing variability in surgical, tracheal extubation, post-anesthesia care unit, or intraoperative response recovery times. Generalized confidence intervals based on the log-normal distribution compare variability between groups, specifically ratios of standard deviations. The alternative statistical approaches, performing robust variance comparison tests, give P-values, not point estimates nor confidence intervals for the ratios of the standard deviations. We performed Monte-Carlo simulations to learn what happens to confidence intervals for ratios of standard deviations of anesthesia-associated times when analyses are based on the log-normal, but the true distributions are Weibull. We used simulation conditions comparable to meta-analyses of most randomized trials in anesthesia, n ≈ 25 and coefficients of variation ≈ 0.30 . The estimates of the ratios of standard deviations were positively biased, but slightly, the ratios being 0.11% to 0.33% greater than nominal. In contrast, the 95% confidence intervals were very wide (i.e., > 95% of P ≥ 0.05). Although substantive inferentially, the differences in the confidence limits were small from a clinical or managerial perspective, with a maximum absolute difference in ratios of 0.016. Thus, P < 0.05 is reliable, but investigators should plan for Type II errors at greater than nominal rates.
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- Pei-Fu Chen
- Department of Anesthesiology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Banqiao, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 220
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 320
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- Departments of Anesthesia and Health Management & Policy, University of Iowa, 6 JCP, Iowa City, Iowa, IA, 52246, USA.
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Lu CC, Ho ST, Hu OYP, Hsiong CH, Cheng YC, Hsu CH, Lin TC. Pharmacokinetics of desflurane uptake and disposition in piglets. Front Pharmacol 2024; 15:1339690. [PMID: 38628643 PMCID: PMC11018996 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1339690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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Introduction Many respiratory but few arterial blood pharmacokinetics of desflurane uptake and disposition have been investigated. We explored the pharmacokinetic parameters in piglets by comparing inspiratory, end-tidal, arterial blood, and mixed venous blood concentrations of desflurane. Methods Seven piglets were administered inspiratory 6% desflurane by inhalation over 2 h, followed by a 2-h disposition phase. Inspiratory and end-tidal concentrations were detected using an infrared analyzer. Femoral arterial blood and pulmonary artery mixed venous blood were sampled to determine desflurane concentrations by gas chromatography at 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, and 120 min during each uptake and disposition phase. Respiratory and hemodynamic parameters were measured simultaneously. Body uptake and disposition rates were calculated by multiplying the difference between the arterial and pulmonary artery blood concentrations by the cardiac output. Results The rates of desflurane body uptake increased considerably in the initial 5 min (79.8 ml.min-1) and then declined slowly until 120 min (27.0 ml.min-1). Similar characteristics of washout were noted during the subsequent disposition phase. Concentration-time curves of end-tidal, arterial, and pulmonary artery blood concentrations fitted well to zero-order input and first-order disposition kinetics. Arterial and pulmonary artery blood concentrations were best fitted using a two-compartment model. After 2 h, only 21.9% of the desflurane administered had been eliminated from the body. Conclusion Under a fixed inspiratory concentration, desflurane body uptake in piglets corresponded to constant zero-order infusion, and the 2-h disposition pattern followed first-order kinetics and best fitted to a two-compartment model.
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- Chih-Cherng Lu
- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- School of Pharmacy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Internship, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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Dexter F, Hindman BJ. Narrative Review of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation After General Anesthesia With Intubation and Extubation in the Operating Room. Anesth Analg 2024; 138:775-781. [PMID: 37788413 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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This narrative review summarizes research about prolonged times to tracheal extubation after general anesthesia with both intubation and extubation occurring in the operating room or other anesthetizing location where the anesthetic was performed. The literature search was current through May 2023 and included prolonged extubations defined either as >15 minutes or at least 15 minutes. The studies showed that prolonged times to extubation can be measured accurately, are associated with reintubations and respiratory treatments, are rated poorly by anesthesiologists, are treated with flumazenil and naloxone, are associated with impaired operating room workflow, are associated with longer operating room times, are associated with tardiness of starts of to-follow cases and surgeons, and are associated with longer duration workdays. When observing prolonged extubations among all patients receiving general anesthesia, covariates accounting for most prolonged extubations are characteristics of the surgery, positioning, and anesthesia provider's familiarity with the surgeon. Anesthetic drugs and delivery systems routinely achieve substantial differences in the incidences of prolonged extubations. Occasional claims made that anesthesia drugs have unimportant differences in recovery times, based on medians and means of extubation times, are misleading, because benefits of different anesthetics are achieved principally by reducing the variability in extubation times, specifically by decreasing the incidence of extubation times sufficiently long to have economic impact (ie, the prolonged extubations). Collectively, the results show that when investigators in anesthesia pharmacology quantify the rate of patient recovery from general anesthesia, the incidence of prolonged times to tracheal extubation should be included as a study end point.
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- Franklin Dexter
- From the Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Nogi T, Uranishi K, Suzuki A, Hirasaki M, Nakamura T, Kazama T, Nagasaka H, Okuda A, Mieda T. Similarity and dissimilarity in alterations of the gene expression profile associated with inhalational anesthesia between sevoflurane and desflurane. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298264. [PMID: 38547201 PMCID: PMC10977671 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
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Although sevoflurane is one of the most commonly used inhalational anesthetic agents, the popularity of desflurane is increasing to a level similar to that of sevoflurane. Inhalational anesthesia generally activates and represses the expression of genes related to xenobiotic metabolism and immune response, respectively. However, there has been no comprehensive comparison of the effects of sevoflurane and desflurane on the expression of these genes. Thus, we used a next-generation sequencing method to compare alterations in the global gene expression profiles in the livers of rats subjected to inhalational anesthesia by sevoflurane or desflurane. Our bioinformatics analyses revealed that sevoflurane and, to a greater extent, desflurane significantly activated genes related to xenobiotic metabolism. Our analyses also revealed that both anesthetic agents, especially sevoflurane, downregulated many genes related to immune response.
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- Takehiro Nogi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical University Hospital, Morohongo, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Yamane, Hidaka Saitama, Japan
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Yamane, Hidaka Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Cancer Genomics, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Yamane, Hidaka, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical University Hospital, Morohongo, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical University Hospital, Morohongo, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical University Hospital, Morohongo, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Yamane, Hidaka Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Saitama Medical University Hospital, Morohongo, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan
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Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marian AA, Guerra-Londono CE. Preventing Prolonged Times to Awakening While Mitigating the Risk of Patient Awareness: Gas Man Computer Simulations of Sevoflurane Consumption From Brief, High Fresh Gas Flow Before the End of Surgery. Cureus 2024; 16:e55626. [PMID: 38586680 PMCID: PMC10995762 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.55626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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Prolonged times to tracheal extubation are associated with adverse patient and economic outcomes. We simulated awakening patients from sevoflurane after long-duration surgery at 2% end-tidal concentration, 1.0 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) in a 40-year-old. Our end-of-surgery target was 0.5 MAC, the Michigan Awareness Control Study's threshold for intraoperative alerts. Consider an anesthetist who uses a 1 liter/minute gas flow until surgery ends. During surgical closure, the inspired sevoflurane concentration is reduced from 2.05% to 0.62% (i.e., MAC-awake). The estimated time to reach 0.5 MAC is 28 minutes. From a previous study, 28 minutes exceeded ≥95% of surgical closure times for all 244 distinct surgical procedures (N=23,343 cases). Alternatively, the anesthetist uses 8 liters/minute gas flow with the vaporizer at MAC-awake for 1.8 minutes, which reduces the end-tidal concentration to 0.5 MAC. The anesthetist then increases the vaporizer to keep end-tidal 0.5 MAC until the surgery ends. An additional simulation shows that, compared with simulated end-tidal agent feedback control, this approach consumed 0.45 mL extra agent. Simulation results are the same for an 80-year-old patient. The extra 0.45 mL has a global warming potential comparable to driving 26 seconds at 40 kilometers (25 miles) per hour, comparable to route modification to avoid potential roadway hazards.
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- Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
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- Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA
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Bayman EO, Oleson JJ, Dexter F. Introduction to Bayesian Analyses for Clinical Research. Anesth Analg 2024; 138:530-541. [PMID: 37874772 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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Bayesian analyses are becoming more popular as a means of analyzing data, yet the Bayesian approach is novel to many members of the broad clinical audience. While Bayesian analyses are foundational to anesthesia pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling, they also can be used for analyzing data from clinical trials or observational studies. The traditional null hypothesis significance testing (frequentist) approach uses only the data collected from the current study to make inferences. On the other hand, the Bayesian approach quantifies the external information or expert knowledge and combines the external information with the study data, then makes inference from this combined information. We introduce to the clinical and translational science researcher what it means to do Bayesian statistics, why a researcher would choose to perform their analyses using the Bayesian approach, when it would be advantageous to use a Bayesian instead of a frequentist approach, and how Bayesian analyses and interpretations differ from the more traditional frequentist methods. Throughout this paper, we use various pain- and anesthesia-related examples to highlight the ideas and statistical concepts that should be relatable to other areas of research as well.
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- Emine Ozgur Bayman
- From the Departments of Biostatistics and Anesthesia, Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Division of Management Consulting, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Song S, Pei L, Chen H, Zhang Y, Sun C, Yi J, Huang Y. Analysis of hospital and payer costs of care: aggressive warming versus routine warming in abdominal major surgery. Front Public Health 2023; 11:1256254. [PMID: 38026375 PMCID: PMC10652782 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Background Hypothermia is common and active warming is recommended in major surgery. The potential effect on hospitals and payer costs of aggressive warming to a core temperature target of 37°C is poorly understood. Methods In this sub-analysis of the PROTECT trial (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT03111875), we included patients who underwent radical procedures of colorectal cancer and were randomly assigned to aggressive warming or routine warming. Perioperative outcomes, operation room (OR) scheduling process, internal cost accounting data from the China Statistical yearbook (2022), and price lists of medical and health institutions in Beijing were examined. A discrete event simulation (DES) model was established to compare OR efficiency using aggressive warming or routine warming in 3 months. We report base-case net costs and sensitivity analyses of intraoperative aggressive warming compared with routine warming. Costs were calculated in 2022 using US dollars (USD). Results Data from 309 patients were analyzed. The aggressive warming group comprised 161 patients and the routine warming group comprised 148 patients. Compared to routine warming, there were no differences in the incidence of postoperative complications and total hospitalization costs of patients with aggressive warming. The potential benefit of aggressive warming was in the reduced extubation time (7.96 ± 4.33 min vs. 10.33 ± 5.87 min, p < 0.001), lower incidence of prolonged extubation (5.6% vs. 13.9%, p = 0.017), and decreased staff costs. In the DES model, there is no add-on or cancelation of operations performed within 3 months. The net hospital costs related to aggressive warming were higher than those related to routine warming in one operation (138.11 USD vs. 72.34 USD). Aggressive warming will have an economic benefit when the OR staff cost is higher than 2.37 USD/min/person, or the cost of disposable forced-air warming (FAW) is less than 12.88 USD/piece. Conclusion Despite improving OR efficiency, the economic benefits of aggressive warming are influenced by staff costs and the cost of FAW, which vary from different regions and countries. Clinical trial registration clinicaltrials.gov, identifier (NCT03111875).
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- Shujia Song
- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Clinical Medical Research, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Clinical Medical Research, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Sprung J, Deljou A, Warner DO, Schroeder DR, Weingarten TN. Postanesthesia Care Unit Recovery Time According to Volatile Anesthetic Used in Clinical Practice. Anesth Analg 2023; 137:1066-1074. [PMID: 37713329 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Whether volatile anesthetic solubility affects postanesthesia recovery time in clinical practice is unclear. We investigated the association among 3 volatile agents and 2 clinically relevant outcomes-postanesthesia care unit (PACU) recovery time (time from PACU admission to fulfillment of discharge criteria) and oversedation (Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale score ≤-3)-as a potential contributor to delaying PACU discharge. The volatile agents studied were isoflurane, desflurane, and sevoflurane. We hypothesized that increased solubility of the volatile agent (isoflurane versus desflurane or sevoflurane) would be associated with longer PACU recovery time and higher rates of oversedation. METHODS This retrospective observational study included adults (≥18 years) who underwent surgical procedures under general anesthesia with a volatile agent and were admitted to the PACU from May 5, 2018, to December 31, 2020. The primary outcome was PACU recovery time, and the secondary outcome was oversedation. PACU recovery time was log-transformed and analyzed with linear regression. Oversedation was analyzed by using logistic regression. To account for potential confounding, inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) was used. Pairwise comparisons of the 3 agents were performed, with P < .017 (Bonferroni-adjusted) considered significant. RESULTS Of 47,847 patients included, 11,817 (24.7%) received isoflurane, 11,286 (23.6%) received desflurane, and 24,744 (51.7%) received sevoflurane. Sevoflurane had an estimated 4% shorter PACU recovery time (IPTW-adjusted median [interquartile range {IQR}], 61 [42-89] minutes) than isoflurane (64 [44-92] minutes) (ratio of geometric means [98.3% confidence interval {CI}], 0.96 [0.95-0.98]; P < .001). Differences in PACU recovery time between desflurane and the other agents were not significant. The IPTW-adjusted frequency of oversedation was 8.8% for desflurane, 12.2% for sevoflurane, and 16.7% for isoflurane; all pairwise comparisons were observed to be significant (odds ratio [98.3% CI], 0.70 [0.62-0.79] for desflurane versus sevoflurane, 0.48 [0.42-0.55] for desflurane vs isoflurane, and 0.69 [0.63-0.76] for sevoflurane versus isoflurane; all P < .001). Although oversedated patients had longer PACU recovery time, differences in the oversedation rate across agents did not result in meaningful differences in time to PACU recovery. CONCLUSIONS In clinical practice, only small, clinically unimportant differences in PACU recovery time were observed between the volatile anesthetics. Although oversedation was associated with increased PACU recovery time, differences in the rate of oversedation among agents were insufficient to produce meaningful differences in overall PACU recovery time across the 3 volatile agents. Practical attempts to decrease PACU recovery time should address factors other than volatile agent selection.
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- Juraj Sprung
- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
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- Emeritus Member, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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Dexter F, Hindman BJ. Systematic review with meta-analysis of relative risk of prolonged times to tracheal extubation with desflurane versus sevoflurane or isoflurane. J Clin Anesth 2023; 90:111210. [PMID: 37481911 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2023.111210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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The objective of this systematic review was to estimate the relative risk of prolonged times to tracheal extubation with desflurane versus sevoflurane or isoflurane. Prolonged times are defined as ≥15 min from end of surgery (or anesthetic discontinuation) to extubation in the operating room. They are associated with reintubations, naloxone and flumazenil administration, longer times from procedure end to operating room exit, greater differences between actual and scheduled operating room times, longer times from operating room exit to next case start, longer durations of the workday, and more operating room personnel idle while waiting for extubation. Published randomized clinical trials of humans were included. Generalized pivotal methods were used to estimate the relative risk of prolonged extubation for each study from reported means and standard deviations of extubation times. The relative risks were combined using DerSimonian-Laird random effects meta-analysis with Knapp-Hartung adjustment. From 67 papers, there were 78 two-drug comparisons, including 5167 patients. Studies were of high quality (23/78) or moderate quality (55/78), the latter due to lack of blinding of observers to group assignment and/or patient attrition because patients were extubated after operating room exit. Desflurane resulted in a 65% relative reduction in the incidence of prolonged extubation compared with sevoflurane (95% confidence interval 49% to 76%, P < .0001) and in a 78% relative reduction compared with isoflurane (58% to 89%, P = .0001). There were no significant associations between studies' relative risks and quality, industry funding, or year of publication (all six meta-regressions P ≥ .35). In conclusion, when emergence from general anesthesia with different drugs are compared with sevoflurane or isoflurane, suitable benchmarks quantifying rapidity of emergence are reductions in the incidence of prolonged extubation achieved by desflurane, approximately 65% and 78%, respectively. These estimates give realistic context for interpretation of results of future studies that compare new anesthetic agents to current anesthetics.
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Lee HJ, Lee HB, Kim YJ, Cho HY, Kim WH, Seo JH. Comparison of the recovery profile of remimazolam with flumazenil and propofol anesthesia for open thyroidectomy. BMC Anesthesiol 2023; 23:147. [PMID: 37131126 PMCID: PMC10152604 DOI: 10.1186/s12871-023-02104-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have consistently reported a slower recovery of consciousness following remimazolam-based total intravenous anesthesia without flumazenil than with propofol. This study aimed to compare the reversal effect of flumazenil on the recovery of consciousness after remimazolam-based total intravenous anesthesia with the propofol recovery profile. METHODS This prospective, single-blinded, randomized trial included 57 patients undergoing elective open thyroidectomy at a tertiary university hospital. Patients were randomly allocated to receive either remimazolam- or propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (remimazolam group: 28 patients, propofol group: 29 patients). The primary outcome was the time from the end of general anesthesia to first eye opening (min). The secondary outcomes were the time from the end of the general anesthesia to extubation (min), initial modified Aldrete score measured at the post-anesthesia care unit, length of stay at the post-anesthesia care unit (min), occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting during the first 24 h postoperatively, and Korean version of Quality of Recovery-15 score at 24 h postoperatively. RESULTS The remimazolam group showed significantly faster first eye opening time (2.3 [interquartile range, IQR: 1.8-3.3] min vs. 5.0 [IQR: 3.5-7.8] min, median difference:-2.7 [95% confidence interval, CI: -3.7 to -1.5] min, P < 0.001) and extubation time (3.2 [IQR: 2.4-4.2] min vs. 5.7 [IQR: 4.7-8.3] min, median difference: -2.7 [97.5% CI: -5.0 to -1.6] min, P < 0.001). There were no significant differences in other postoperative outcomes. CONCLUSIONS The planned incorporation of flumazenil with remimazolam-based total intravenous anesthesia provided rapid and reliable recovery of consciousness.
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- Ho-Jin Lee
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Daehak-Ro 101, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Daehak-Ro 101, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Daehak-Ro 101, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Dexter F, Ledolter J. Exceedance Probabilities of Log-normal Distributions for One Group, Two Groups, and Meta-analysis of Multiple Two-group Studies, With Application to Analyses of Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation. J Med Syst 2023; 47:49. [PMID: 37074507 DOI: 10.1007/s10916-023-01935-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/20/2023]
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Many randomized trials measure means and standard deviations of anesthesia recovery time (e.g., times to tracheal extubation). We show how to use generalized pivotal methods to compare the probabilities of exceeding a tolerance limit (e.g., > 15 min, prolonged times to tracheal extubation). The topic is important because the economic benefits of faster anesthesia emergence depend on reducing variability, not means, especially prevention of very long recovery times. Generalized pivotal methods are applied using computer simulation (e.g., using two Excel formulas for one group and three formulas for two group comparisons). The endpoint for each study with two groups is the ratio between groups of the probabilities of times exceeding a threshold or the ratio of the standard deviations. Confidence intervals and variances for the incremental risk ratio of the exceedance probabilities and for ratios of standard deviations are calculated using studies' sample sizes, sample means in the time scale of recovery times, and sample standard deviations in the time scale. Ratios are combined among studies using the DerSimonian-Laird estimate of the heterogeneity variance estimate, with Knapp-Hartung adjustment for the relatively small (N = 15) numbers of studies in the meta-analysis. We show larger absolute variability among studies' results when analyzed based on exceedance probabilities rather than standard deviations. Therefore, if an investigator's primary goal is to quantify reductions in the variability of recovery times (e.g., times until patients are ready for post-anesthesia care unit discharge), we recommend analyzing the standard deviations. When exceedance probabilities themselves are relevant, they can be analyzed from the original studies' summary measures.
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- Franklin Dexter
- Departments of Anesthesia and Health Management & Policy, University of Iowa, 6 JCP, Iowa City, IA, 52246, USA.
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- Department of Business Analytics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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Dexter F. Earlier studies of prolonged times to tracheal extubation after end of surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2023; 37:192-193. [PMID: 36323596 DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2022.09.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Franklin Dexter
- University of Iowa, Department of Anesthesia, Division of Management Consulting, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States of America.
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Xia J, Ran G, Chen K, Shen X. Factors Associated with Prolonged Extubation after Total Intravenous Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing Vestibular Schwannoma Resection. Otol Neurotol 2022; 43:e1164-e1167. [PMID: 36113455 DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000003688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with prolonged tracheal extubation after vestibular schwannoma resection in patients receiving propofol-remifentanil-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA). STUDY DESIGN Single-center retrospective study of vestibular schwannoma resection performed by a single neurosurgeon between July 2018 and September 2021. SETTING Tertiary academic medical center. PATIENTS Adults receiving TIVA for vestibular schwannoma resection, classified according to extubation time: non-prolonged extubation (<15 min) and prolonged extubation (≥15 min). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Time from end of surgery to extubation, demographic parameters, intraoperative variables, and familiarity between the anesthesia provider and the neurosurgeon were analyzed. Predictors for prolonged extubation were analyzed via multivariate analysis. The primary outcome was the incidence of prolonged extubation. The secondary outcome was factors associated with prolonged tracheal extubation. RESULTS A total of 234 cases were analyzed. The median (interquartile range) extubation time was 9.4 minutes (7.2, 12.2 min). Extubation was prolonged in 39 patients (16.7%). Factors predicting prolonged extubation were significant blood loss (odds ratio [OR], 12.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.6-61.7; p = 0.002), intraoperative neuromuscular blocking drug infusion (OR, 6.6; 95% CI, 2.8-15.7; p < 0.001), and lack of familiarity between the anesthesia provider and neurosurgeon (OR, 4.4; 95% CI, 1.5-12.3; p = 0.005). CONCLUSION Significant blood loss, intraoperative neuromuscular blocking drug infusion, and lack of familiarity between anesthesia provider and neurosurgeon were associated with prolonged extubation following TIVA for vestibular schwannoma resection.
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- Junming Xia
- Department of Anesthesiology, Eye & and ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Factors affecting prolonged time to extubation in patients given remimazolam. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0268568. [PMID: 35584094 PMCID: PMC9116664 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Purpose To analyze the cause of prolonged recovery from general anesthesia with remimazolam. Methods We studied 65 patients under general anesthesia with remimazolam. According to time to extubation, patients were divided into short period (SP) (n = 34, < 15 min) and long period (LP) (n = 31, ≥ 15 min) groups. Variables affecting time to extubation such as age, sex, height, body weight, body mass index (BMI), plasma albumin concentration, ASA class, duration of surgery, and total duration of general anesthesia, and total dose of remimazolam were compared between SP and LP groups. At the end of remimazolam infusion and upon extubation, predictive remimazolam concentrations were calculated using pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic three compartment modeling. Results LP group showed significantly higher BMI, older age, and lower plasma albumin concentration compared with those of SP group. Logistic regression analysis showed that the probability of time to extubation of ≥ 15 min was higher in patients with BMI greater than 22.0 kg/m2 (AUC 0.668, 95% CI 0.533‒0.803), ages older than 79.0 years (AUC 0.662, 95% CI 0.526‒0.798), and plasma albumin concentrations lower than 3.60 g/dl (AUC 0.720, 95% CI 0.593‒0.847). LP group showed significantly lower predicted remimazolam concentration than SP group upon extubation despite no difference in concentration between both groups at the end of infusion. Pharmacological analysis estimates that LP group is more sensitive to remimazolam than SP group through amplified responses. Conclusions Lower remimazolam doses should be considered for the overweight patients, elderly, and those with lower plasma albumin concentration.
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Joshi GP. General anesthetic techniques for enhanced recovery after surgery: Current controversies. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 2021; 35:531-541. [PMID: 34801215 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2020.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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General anesthesia technique can influence not only immediate postoperative outcomes, but also long-term outcomes beyond hospital stay (e.g., readmission after discharge from hospital). There is lack of evidence regarding superiority of total intravenous anesthesia over inhalation anesthesia with regards to postoperative outcomes even in high-risk population including cancer patients. Optimal balanced general anesthetic technique for enhance recovery after elective surgery in adults includes avoidance of routine use preoperative midazolam, avoidance of deep anesthesia, use of opioid-sparing approach, and minimization of neuromuscular blocking agents and appropriate reversal of residual paralysis. Given that the residual effects of drugs used during anesthesia can increase postoperative morbidity and delay recovery, it is prudent to use a minimal number of drug combinations, and the drugs used are shorter-acting and administered at the lowest possible dose. It is imperative that the discerning anesthesiologist consider whether each drug used is really necessary for accomplishing perioperative goals.
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- Girish P Joshi
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9068, USA.
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Zhao S, Wang S, Li H, Guo J, Li J, Wang D, Zhang X, Yin L, Li R, Li A, Li H, Fan Z, Yang Q, Zhong H, Dong H. Activation of Orexinergic Neurons Inhibits the Anesthetic Effect of Desflurane on Consciousness State via Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus in Rats. Anesth Analg 2021; 133:781-793. [PMID: 34403389 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Orexin, a neuropeptide derived from the perifornical area of the hypothalamus (PeFLH), promotes the recovery of propofol, isoflurane, and sevoflurane anesthesias, without influencing the induction time. However, whether the orexinergic system also plays a similar role in desflurane anesthesia, which is widely applied in clinical practice owing to its most rapid onset and offset time among all volatile anesthetics, has not yet been studied. In the present study, we explored the effect of the orexinergic system on the consciousness state induced by desflurane anesthesia. METHODS The c-Fos staining was used to observe the activity changes of orexinergic neurons in the PeFLH and their efferent projection regions under desflurane anesthesia. Chemogenetic and optogenetic techniques were applied to compare the effect of PeFLH orexinergic neurons on the induction, emergence, and maintenance states between desflurane and isoflurane anesthesias. Orexinergic terminals in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus (PVT) were manipulated with pharmacologic, chemogenetic, and optogenetic techniques to assess the effect of orexinergic circuitry on desflurane anesthesia. RESULTS Desflurane anesthesia inhibited the activity of orexinergic neurons in the PeFLH, as well as the neuronal activity in PVT, basal forebrain, dorsal raphe nucleus, and ventral tegmental area, as demonstrated by c-Fos staining. Activation of PeFLH orexinergic neurons prolonged the induction time and accelerated emergence from desflurane anesthesia but only influenced the emergence in isoflurane anesthesia, as demonstrated by chemogenetic and pharmacologic techniques. Meanwhile, optical activation of orexinergic neurons exhibited a long-lasting inhibitory effect on burst-suppression ratio (BSR) under desflurane anesthesia, and the effect may be contributed by the orexinergic PeFLH-PVT circuitry. The orexin-2 receptor (OX2R), but not orexin-1 receptor (OX1R), in the PVT, which had been inhibited most significantly by desflurane, mediated the proemergence effect of desflurane anesthesia. CONCLUSIONS We discovered, for the first time, that orexinergic neurons in the PeFLH could not only influence the maintenance and emergence from isoflurane and desflurane anesthesias but also affect the induction under desflurane anesthesia. Furthermore, this specific effect is probably mediated by orexinergic PeFLH-PVT circuitry, especially OX2Rs in the PVT.
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- Shiyi Zhao
- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Epstein RH, Dexter F, Mojica JJ, Schwenk ES. Briefest Time to Perform a Series of Preoperative Nerve Blocks in Multiple Patients: A Simulation Study. Cureus 2021; 13:e16251. [PMID: 34373812 PMCID: PMC8347647 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.16251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Introduction To mitigate first-case delays in operating rooms, sufficient additional time must be allotted when anesthesiologists perform preoperative nerve blocks in multiple patients who are scheduled as the initial cases of the day. We used spinal anesthetics performed in dedicated block rooms located just outside the operating room suite to estimate the briefest times needed to complete a series of spinal, epidural, peripheral, or other regional nerve blocks. We followed this approach because even though the studied hospital had a busy regional anesthesia service, sample sizes were insufficient and electronic data were not available to directly study the time to perform the many other nerve blocks they perform. Methods We studied a historical cohort of 8,462 adult patients undergoing spinal anesthesia between 2005 and 2017. Preoperative evaluation, consent, and holding area tasks were completed before entering the block room; the times to complete these tasks were not available for study. Upon block room entry, the electronic anesthetic record was started, a timeout conducted with patient participation, vital signs taken, and the spinal performed. The interval from entry until intrathecal injection was the spinal block time. Because fits of these times to probability distributions previously used for anesthesia times were poor (p < 0.001), percentiles of times to perform one or more spinal anesthetics were calculated using Monte-Carlo simulation (100,000 samples with replacement) from the empirical distributions. Results The mean spinal block time was 8.8 minutes. The 90% upper prediction limit for one block was 14 minutes, with progressively decreasing times for each subsequent block for a 90% chance of finishing on time. For example, for three first-case regional or neuraxial blocks performed outside the operating room by one anesthesiologist, the first patient needs to arrive at least 38 minutes earlier than non-block patients to mitigate operating room start delays. Conclusions These minimum time estimates can help nursing leadership ensure that sufficient time will be available after patients are ready for anesthesia to avoid first-case delays when preoperative regional anesthesia is performed outside the operating room. Given that inadequate sample size and documentation issues likely exist universally for the various non-neuraxial preoperative nerve blocks, we recommend that hospitals use our estimates as a minimum starting point rather than try to calculate times using their own data. Then, as a systems-based metric to assess all steps in the process, track the percentages of days for which all blocks were completed in sufficient time to avoid a first-case delay for those patients. Adjustments to the arrival times would then be implemented, if needed, to meet hospital objectives for on-time starts.
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- Richard H Epstein
- Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
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- Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
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Prolonged time to extubation after general anaesthesia is associated with early escalation of care: A retrospective observational study. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2021; 38:494-504. [PMID: 32890014 DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000001316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prolonged time to extubation after general anaesthesia has been defined as a time from the end of surgery to airway extubation of at least 15 min. This occurrence can result in ineffective utilisation of operating rooms and delays in patient care. It is unknown if unanticipated delayed extubation is associated with escalation of care. OBJECTIVES To assess the frequency of 'prolonged extubation' after general anaesthesia and its association with 'escalation of care before discharge from the postanaesthesia care unit', defined as administration of reversal agents for opioids and benzodiazepines, airway re-intubation and need for ventilatory support. In addition, we tried to identify independent factors associated with 'prolonged extubation'. DESIGN Single-centre retrospective study of cases performed from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2014. SETTING A large US tertiary academic medical centre. PATIENTS Adult general anaesthesia cases excluding cardiothoracic, otolaryngology and neurosurgery procedures, classified as: Group 1 - regular extubation (≤15 min); Group 2 - prolonged extubation (≥16 and ≤60 min); Group 3 - very prolonged extubation (≥61 min). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES First, cases with prolonged time to extubation; second, instances of escalation of care per extubation group; third, independent factors associated with prolonged time to extubation. RESULTS A total of 86 123 cases were analysed. Prolonged extubation occurred in 8138 cases (9.5%) and very prolonged extubation in 357 cases (0.4%). In Groups 1, 2 and 3 respectively, naloxone was used in 0.4, 4.1 and 3.9% of cases, flumazenil in 0.03, 0.6 and 2% and respiratory support in 0.2, 0.7 and 2%, and immediate re-intubation occurred in 0.1, 0.3 and 2.8% of cases. Several patient-related, anaesthesia-related and procedure-related factors were independently associated with prolonged time to extubation. CONCLUSION Prolonged time to extubation occurred in nearly 10% of cases and was associated with an increased incidence of escalation of care. Many independent factors associated with 'prolonged extubation' were nonmodifiable by anaesthetic management.
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Kobayashi N, Wagatsuma T, Shiga T, Toyama H, Ejima Y, Yamauchi M. Age-related changes in factors associated with delayed extubation after general anesthesia: a retrospective study. JA Clin Rep 2020; 6:20. [PMID: 32170494 PMCID: PMC7070109 DOI: 10.1186/s40981-020-00325-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sugiyama D, Dexter F, Thenuwara K, Ueda K. Comparison of Percentage Prolonged Times to Tracheal Extubation Between a Japanese Teaching Hospital and One in the United States, Without and With a Phase I Postanesthesia Care Unit. Anesth Analg 2020; 133:1206-1214. [PMID: 33044261 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prolonged times to tracheal extubation are those from end of surgery (dressing on the patient) to extubation 15 minutes or longer. They are so long that others in the operating room (OR) generally have exhausted whatever activities can be done. They cause delays in the starts of surgeons' to-follow cases and are associated with longer duration workdays. Anesthesiologists rate them as being inferior quality. We compare prolonged times to extubation between a teaching hospital in the United States with a phase I postanesthesia care unit (PACU) and a teaching hospital in Japan without a PACU. Our report is especially important during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Anesthesiologists with some patients undergoing general anesthetics and having initial PACU recovery in the ORs where they had surgery can learn from the Japanese anesthesiologists with all patients recovering in ORs. METHODS The historical cohort study included all patients undergoing gynecological surgery at a US hospital (N = 785) or Japanese hospital (N = 699), with the time from OR entrance to end of surgery of at least 4 hours. RESULTS The mean times from end of surgery to OR exit were slightly longer at the US hospital than at the Japanese hospital (mean difference 1.9 minutes, P < .0001). The mean from end of surgery to discharge to surgical ward at the US hospital also was longer (P < .0001), mean difference 2.2 hours. The sample standard deviations of times from end of surgery until tracheal extubation was 40 minutes for the US hospital versus 4 minutes at the Japanese hospital (P < .0001). Prolonged times to tracheal extubation were 39% of cases at the US hospital versus 6% at the Japanese hospital; relative risk 6.40, 99% confidence interval (CI), 4.28-9.56. Neither patient demographics, case characteristics, surgeon, anesthesiologist, nor anesthesia provider significantly revised the risk ratio. There were 39% of times to extubation that were prolonged among the patients receiving neither remifentanil nor desflurane (all such patients at the US hospital) versus 6% among the patients receiving both remifentanil and desflurane (all at the Japanese hospital). The relative risk 7.12 (99% CI, 4.59-11.05) was similar to that for the hospital groups. CONCLUSIONS Differences in anesthetic practice can facilitate major differences in patient recovery soon after anesthesia, useful when the patient will recover initially in the OR or if the phase I PACU is expected to be unable to admit the patient.
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- Daisuke Sugiyama
- From the Department of Anesthesiology, Kameda Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
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- Division of Management Consulting, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Division of Management Consulting, Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, Kameda Medical Center, Chiba, Japan.,Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Matthew J Meyer
- From the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia (UVA), UVA Health, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Dexter F, Elhakim M, Loftus RW, Seering MS, Epstein RH. Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. J Clin Anesth 2020; 64:109854. [PMID: 32371331 PMCID: PMC7188624 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2020.109854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We performed a narrative review to explore the economics of daily operating room management decisions for ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It is anticipated that there will be a substantive fraction of patients who will be contagious, but asymptomatic at the time of surgery. Use multimodal perioperative infection control practices (e.g., including patient decontamination) and monitor performance (e.g., S. aureus transmission from patient to the environment). The consequence of COVID-19 is that such processes are more important than ever to follow because infection affects not only patients but the surgery center staff and surgeons. Dedicate most operating rooms to procedures that are not airway aerosol producing and can be performed without general anesthesia. Increase throughput by performing nerve blocks before patients enter the operating rooms. Bypass the phase I post-anesthesia care unit whenever possible by appropriate choices of anesthetic approach and drugs. Plan long-duration workdays (e.g., 12-h). For cases where the surgical procedure does not cause aerosol production, but general anesthesia will be used, have initial (phase I) post-anesthesia recovery in the operating room where the surgery was done. Use anesthetic practices that achieve fast initial recovery of the brief ambulatory cases. When the surgical procedure causes aerosol production (e.g., bronchoscopy), conduct phase I recovery in the operating room and use multimodal environmental decontamination after each case. Use statistical methods to plan for the resulting long turnover times. Whenever possible, have the anesthesia and nursing teams stagger cases in more than one room so that they are doing one surgical case while the other room is being cleaned. In conclusion, this review shows that while COVID-19 is prevalent, it will markedly affect daily ambulatory workflow for patients undergoing general anesthesia, with potentially substantial economic impact for some surgical specialties.
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Wang Z, Dexter F, Zenios SA. Caseload is increased by resequencing cases before and on the day of surgery at ambulatory surgery centers where initial patient recovery is in operating rooms and cleanup times are longer than typical. J Clin Anesth 2020; 67:110024. [PMID: 32805684 PMCID: PMC7418695 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2020.110024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Study objective The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacts operating room (OR) management in regions with high prevalence (e.g., >1.0% of asymptomatic patients testing positive). Cases with aerosol producing procedures are isolated to a few ORs, initial phase I recovery of those patients is in the ORs, and multimodal environmental decontamination applied. We quantified the potential increase in productivity from also resequencing these cases among those 2 or 3 ORs. Design Computer simulation provided sample sizes requiring >100 years experimentally. Resequencing was limited to changes in the start times of surgeons' lists of cases. Setting Ambulatory surgery center or hospital outpatient department. Main results With case resequencing applied before and on the day of surgery, there were 5.6% and 5.5% more cases per OR per day for the 2 ORs and 3 ORs, respectively, both standard errors (SE) < 0.1%. Resequencing cases among ORs to start cases earlier permitted increases in the hours into which cases could be scheduled from 10.5 to 11.0 h, while assuring >90% probability of each OR finishing within the prespecified 12-h shift. Thus, the additional cases were all scheduled before the day of surgery. The greater allocated time also resulted in less overutilized time, a mean of 4.2 min per OR per day for 2 ORs (SE 0.5) and 6.3 min per OR per day for 3 ORs (SE 0.4). The benefit could be achieved while limiting application of resequencing to days when the OR with the fewest estimated hours of cases has ≤8 h. Conclusions Some ambulatory surgery ORs have unusually long OR times and/or room cleanup times (e.g., infection control efforts because of the pandemic). Resequencing cases before and on the day of surgery should be considered, because moving 1 or 2 cases occasionally has little to no cost with substantive benefit. COVID-19 influences management for aerosol producing procedures. Simulation studied case resequencing applied before and on the day of surgery. >5% more queued cases can be done per OR per day with practical heuristic.
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- Zhengli Wang
- Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States of America
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Dexter F, Parra MC, Brown JR, Loftus RW. Perioperative COVID-19 Defense: An Evidence-Based Approach for Optimization of Infection Control and Operating Room Management. Anesth Analg 2020; 131:37-42. [PMID: 32217947 PMCID: PMC7172574 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000004829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We describe an evidence-based approach for optimization of infection control and operating room management during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Confirmed modes of viral transmission are primarily, but not exclusively, contact with contaminated environmental surfaces and aerosolization. Evidence-based improvement strategies for attenuation of residual environmental contamination involve a combination of deep cleaning with surface disinfectants and ultraviolet light (UV-C). (1) Place alcohol-based hand rubs on the intravenous (IV) pole to the left of the provider. Double glove during induction. (2) Place a wire basket lined with a zip closure plastic bag on the IV pole to the right of the provider. Place all contaminated instruments in the bag (eg, laryngoscope blades and handles) and close. Designate and maintain clean and dirty areas. After induction of anesthesia, wipe down all equipment and surfaces with disinfection wipes that contain a quaternary ammonium compound and alcohol. Use a top-down cleaning sequence adequate to reduce bioburden. Treat operating rooms using UV-C. (3) Decolonize patients using preprocedural chlorhexidine wipes, 2 doses of nasal povidone-iodine within 1 hour of incision, and chlorhexidine mouth rinse. (4) Create a closed lumen IV system and use hub disinfection. (5) Provide data feedback by surveillance of Enterococcus, Staphylococcusaureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter spp. (ESKAPE)transmission. (6) To reduce the use of surgical masks and to reduce potential COVID-19 exposure, use relatively long (eg, 12hours) staff shifts. If there are 8 essential cases to be done (each lasting 1–2 hours), the ideal solution is to have 2 teams complete the 8 cases, not 8 first case starts. (7) Do 1 case in each operating room daily, with terminal cleaning after each case including UV-C or equivalent. (8) Do not have patients go into a large, pooled phase I postanesthesia care unit because of the risk of contaminating facility at large along with many staff. Instead, have most patients recover in the room where they had surgery as is done routinely in Japan. These 8 programmatic recommendations stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development made possible by support from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF).
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- Franklin Dexter
- From the Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- From the Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- From the Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Epstein RH, Dexter F. A Predictive Model for Patient Census and Ventilator Requirements at Individual Hospitals During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Preliminary Technical Report. Cureus 2020; 12:e8501. [PMID: 32656017 PMCID: PMC7346295 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.8501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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During the initial wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many hospitals struggled to forecast bed capacity and the number of mechanical ventilators they needed to have available. Numerous epidemiological models forecast regional or national peak bed and ventilator needs, but these are not suitable for predictions at the hospital level. We developed an analytical model to assist hospitals in determining their census and ventilator requirements for COVID-19 patients during future periods of the pandemic, by using their data. This model is based on (1) projection of future daily admissions using counts from the previous seven days, (2) lengths of stay and duration of mechanical ventilation, and (3) the percentage of inpatients requiring mechanical ventilation. The implementation is done within an Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, WA) workbook without the use of add-ins or macro programming. The model inputs for each currently hospitalized patient with COVID-19 are the duration of hospitalization, whether the patient is currently receiving or has previously received mechanical ventilation, and the duration of the current ventilation episode, if applicable. Data validity and internal consistency are checked within the workbook, and errors are identified. Durations of care (length of hospital stay and duration of mechanical ventilation) are generated by fitting a two-parameter Weibull distribution to the hospital's historical data from the initial phase of the pandemic (incorporating censoring due to ongoing care), for which we provide source code in the R programming language (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria). Conditional distributions are then calculated using the hospital's current data. The output of the model is nearly instantaneous, producing an estimate of the census and the number of ventilators required in one, three, and seven days following the date on which the simulation is run. Given that the pandemic is ongoing, and a second surge of cases is expected with the reopening of the economy, having such a tool to predict resource needs for hospital planning purposes has been useful. A major benefit to individual hospitals from such modeling has been to provide reassurance to state and local governments that the hospitals have sufficient resources available to meet anticipated needs for new COVID-19 patients without having to set aside substantially greater numbers of beds or ventilators for such care. Such ongoing activity is important for the economic recovery of hospitals that have been hard-hit economically by the shutdown in elective surgery and other patient care activities. The modeling software is freely available at https://FDshort.com/COVID19, and its parameters can easily be modified by end-users.
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- Richard H Epstein
- Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
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Armstrong F, Sebastian J. Is it time to stop using desflurane? Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 2020; 81:1-2. [PMID: 32339021 DOI: 10.12968/hmed.2019.0411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Desflurane has a carbon equivalence 20 times greater than sevoflurane. This article discusses alternative anaesthetic techniques, including sevoflurane, xenon, total intravenous anaesthesia and regional techniques, and methods of reducing venting of gases, which might lower the environmental impact of anaesthesia.
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- Fiona Armstrong
- Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham, UK
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, Salford, UK
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Prolonged tracheal extubation time after glioma surgery was associated with lack of familiarity between the anesthesia provider and the operating neurosurgeon. A retrospective, observational study. J Clin Anesth 2020; 60:118-124. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2019.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 08/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Memtsoudis SG, Cozowicz C, Nagappa M, Wong J, Joshi GP, Wong DT, Doufas AG, Yilmaz M, Stein MH, Krajewski ML, Singh M, Pichler L, Ramachandran SK, Chung F. Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine Guideline on Intraoperative Management of Adult Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Anesth Analg 2019; 127:967-987. [PMID: 29944522 PMCID: PMC6135479 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000003434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The purpose of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine Guideline on Intraoperative Management of Adult Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is to present recommendations based on current scientific evidence. This guideline seeks to address questions regarding the intraoperative care of patients with OSA, including airway management, anesthetic drug and agent effects, and choice of anesthesia type. Given the paucity of high-quality studies with regard to study design and execution in this perioperative field, recommendations were to a large part developed by subject-matter experts through consensus processes, taking into account the current scientific knowledge base and quality of evidence. This guideline may not be suitable for all clinical settings and patients and is not intended to define standards of care or absolute requirements for patient care; thus, assessment of appropriateness should be made on an individualized basis. Adherence to this guideline cannot guarantee successful outcomes, but recommendations should rather aid health care professionals and institutions to formulate plans and develop protocols for the improvement of the perioperative care of patients with OSA, considering patient-related factors, interventions, and resource availability. Given the groundwork of a comprehensive systematic literature review, these recommendations reflect the current state of knowledge and its interpretation by a group of experts at the time of publication. While periodic reevaluations of literature are needed, novel scientific evidence between updates should be taken into account. Deviations in practice from the guideline may be justifiable and should not be interpreted as a basis for claims of negligence.
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- Stavros G Memtsoudis
- From the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Weill Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.,Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Weill Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.,Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and St Joseph's Health Care, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Management, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Toronto Sleep and Pulmonary Centre, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Canada.,Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Weill Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York.,Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Zuegge KL, Bunsen SK, Turner CR, Ward RC, Rusy DA. In Response. Anesth Analg 2019; 128:e121-e122. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000003988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Dexter F, Epstein RH. Economic Savings From Changing Anesthetic Agent Purchasing Must Include Costs Associated With Expected Changes in Case Times Known From Meta-analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials. Anesth Analg 2019; 128:e120. [PMID: 31094814 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000003987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Franklin Dexter
- Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Department of Anesthesiology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Yu H, Zhang L, Ma Y, Yu H. Early postoperative recovery in operating room after desflurane anesthesia combined with Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring and warming in lengthy abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled study. BMC Anesthesiol 2018; 18:110. [PMID: 30115007 PMCID: PMC6097414 DOI: 10.1186/s12871-018-0577-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine whether the use of desflurane (DES) anesthesia combined with bispectral index (BIS) monitoring and warming is effective in reducing anesthesia-controlled operating room time (ACT) in patients undergoing lengthy abdominal surgery. METHODS Seventy patients, 40 years of age or older, undergoing abdominal surgery expected to last three to five hours were randomly assigned to the DES group (n = 35) or the control group (n = 35). Patients in the DES group were maintained with desflurane anesthesia and received BIS monitoring and warming. Patients in the control group were given non-desflurane anesthesia for maintenance, and the usage of BIS monitoring and warming were not mandatory and determined by anesthesia care providers. Early postoperative recovery times were recorded. RESULTS The times to extubation (8.8 ± 8.5 vs 14.7 ± 13.7 min, P = 0.035), eye opening (8.4 ± 8.6 vs 14.4 ± 13.4 min, P = 0.028), responds on command (8.2 ± 8.5 vs 14.4 ± 13.0 min, P = 0.022), and the ACT (23.8 ± 11.4 vs 32.7 ± 15.4 min, P = 0.009) were significantly less in the DES group than that in the control group. The postanesthesia care unit (PACU) length of stay, incidence of prolonged extubation, and surgeon and anesthesiologist satisfaction were similar in two groups. Also, the result of multivariable linear regressions showed that patients who were younger, female, lower BMI and non-DES anesthesia regimen resulted in prolonged extubation. CONCLUSIONS Desflurane anesthesia combined with BIS monitoring and warming is associated with early postoperative recovery in lengthy abdominal surgery. TRIAL REGISTRATION ChiCTR-INR-17013333 . Date of registration: November 11, 2017.
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- Hong Yu
- Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, 100029 People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041 People’s Republic of China
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Epstein RH, Dexter F. Database Quality and Access Issues Relevant to Research Using Anesthesia Information Management System Data. Anesth Analg 2018; 127:105-114. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000003324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Acupuncture treatment has been used in China for >2500 years, and at present it is used worldwide as a form of analgesia in patients with acute and chronic pain. Furthermore, acupuncture is regularly used not only as a single anesthetic technique but also as a supplement or in addition to general anesthesia (GA). OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the level of evidence for the clinical use of acupuncture in addition to GA in patients undergoing craniotomy. DESIGN This is a systematic review of randomized controlled trials with meta-analyses. DATA SOURCES The literature search (PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science) yielded 56 citations, published between 1972 and March 01, 2015. No systematic review or meta-analyses on this topic matched our search criteria. Each article of any language was assessed and rated for the methodological quality of the studies, using the recommendation of the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Ten prospective randomized controlled clinical trials with a total of 700 patients were included. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Included in the meta-analysis were studies that involved any craniotomy under GA compared with a combination of GA and acupuncture. Exclusion criteria were no acupuncture during surgery, no GA during surgery, only postoperative data available, animal studies, and low grade of evidence. RESULTS The use of acupuncture significantly reduced the amount of volatile anesthetics during surgery (P<0.001) and led to faster extubation time (P=0.001) and postoperative patient recovery (P=0.003). In addition, significantly reduced blood levels of the brain tissue injury marker S100β 48 hours after operation (P=0.001) and occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (P=0.017) were observed. No patient studied suffered from awareness. CONCLUSIONS The analysis suggests that the complementary use of acupuncture for craniotomy has additional analgesic effects, reduces the needed amount of volatile anesthetic, reduces the onset of postoperative nausea and vomiting, and might have protective effects on brain tissue. Our findings may stimulate future randomized controlled trials to provide definitive recommendations.
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Williams MR, Nayshtut M, Hoefnagel A, McKeown A, Carlson DW, Cravero J, Lightdale J, Mason KP, Wilson S, Turk DC, Dworkin RH, Ward DS. Efficacy Outcome Measures for Pediatric Procedural Sedation Clinical Trials. Anesth Analg 2018; 126:956-967. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000002456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Patil Y, Bagade S, Patil N, Jadhav N. A prospective randomized study comparing recovery following anesthesia with a combination of intravenous dexmedetomidine and desflurane or sevoflurane in spinal surgeries. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 2018; 33:524-528. [PMID: 29416248 PMCID: PMC5791269 DOI: 10.4103/joacp.joacp_61_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Background and Aims: Desflurane and sevoflurane are inhalational anesthetics which provide stable intraoperative hemodynamics and rapid emergence from anesthesia. Dexmedetomidine is an α2-agonist with sedative and hypnotic effects. We compared recovery following anesthesia with a combination of a continuous intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine and desflurane or sevoflurane in cases of spine surgeries because no such data are available from India. Material and Methods: It was a single-blind, prospective, randomized study. After institutional ethics committee approval, patients were randomly allocated to one of the two groups of fifty patients each. Group D received desflurane and Group S received sevoflurane, along with dexmedetomidine 0.5 μg/kg/h IV infusion for maintenance of anesthesia. Results and Conclusions: Extubation time (ET) in Group D was shorter by 4.2 min than in Group S (10.1 ± 2.2 and 14.2 ± 1.3; P = 0.004). Postoperative recovery, postoperative analgesic, and antiemetic requirement between the groups were comparable The mean dial setting required to maintain the minimum alveolar concentration of 1 intraoperatively was 3.1 for desflurane and 0.7 for sevoflurane.
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- Yogita Patil
- Department of Anaesthesia, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Epstein RH, Dexter F, Hofer IS, Rodriguez LI, Schwenk ES, Maga JM, Hindman BJ. Perioperative Temperature Measurement Considerations Relevant to Reporting Requirements for National Quality Programs Using Data From Anesthesia Information Management Systems. Anesth Analg 2018; 126:478-486. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000002098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Liu TC, Lai HC, Lu CH, Huang YS, Hung NK, Cherng CH, Wu ZF. Analysis of anesthesia-controlled operating room time after propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia compared with desflurane anesthesia in functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Medicine (Baltimore) 2018; 97:e9805. [PMID: 29384881 PMCID: PMC5805453 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000009805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Anesthesia technique may contribute to the improvement of operation room (OR) efficiency by reducing anesthesia-controlled time. We compared the difference between propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) and desflurane anesthesia (DES) for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) undergoing general anesthesiaWe performed a retrospective study using data collected in our hospital to compare the anesthesia-controlled time of FESS using either TIVA via target-controlled infusion with propofol/fentanyl or DES/fentanyl-based anesthesia between January 2010 and December 2011. The various time intervals (surgical time, anesthesia time, extubation time, total OR stay time, post anesthesia care unit [PACU] stay time) and the percentage of prolonged extubation were compared between the 2 anesthetic techniques.We included data from 717 patients, with 305 patients receiving TIVA and 412 patients receiving DES. An emergence time >15 minutes is defined as prolonged extubation. The extubation time was faster (8.8 [3.5] vs. 9.6 [4.0] minutes; P = .03), and the percentage of prolonged extubation was lower (7.5% vs. 13.6%, risk difference 6.1%, P < .001) in the TIVA group than in the DES group. However, there was no significant difference between ACT, total OR stay time, and PACU stay time.In our hospital, propofol-based TIVA by target-controlled infusion provide faster emergence and lower chance of prolonged extubation compared with DES anesthesia in FESS. However, the reduction in extubation time may not improve OR efficiency.
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- Tien-Chien Liu
- Division of Anesthesiology, Zouying Branch of Kaohsiung Armed Force General Hospital, Kaohsiung
- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Equivalent analgesic effectiveness between perineural and intravenous dexamethasone as adjuvants for peripheral nerve blockade: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Can J Anaesth 2017; 65:194-206. [DOI: 10.1007/s12630-017-1008-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Time to Extubation-What Causes the Variations? Obes Surg 2017; 28:261. [PMID: 29080973 DOI: 10.1007/s11695-017-3004-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Analyses of Time to Recovery Including Time to Tracheal Extubation Need to Be Performed While Incorporating Their Probability Distribution. Obes Surg 2017; 28:259-260. [PMID: 29082454 DOI: 10.1007/s11695-017-3002-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Anesthesia recovery comparison between remifentanil-propofol and remifentanil-desflurane guided by Bispectral Index ® monitoring. Braz J Anesthesiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bjane.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Williams MR, Ward DS, Carlson D, Cravero J, Dexter F, Lightdale JR, Mason KP, Miner J, Vargo JJ, Berkenbosch JW, Clark RM, Constant I, Dionne R, Dworkin RH, Gozal D, Grayzel D, Irwin MG, Lerman J, O'Connor RE, Pandharipande P, Rappaport BA, Riker RR, Tobin JR, Turk DC, Twersky RS, Sessler DI. Evaluating Patient-Centered Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Procedural Sedation, Part 1 Efficacy: Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research Recommendations. Anesth Analg 2017; 124:821-830. [PMID: 27622720 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000001566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The Sedation Consortium on Endpoints and Procedures for Treatment, Education, and Research, established by the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks public-private partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration, convened a meeting of sedation experts from a variety of clinical specialties and research backgrounds with the objective of developing recommendations for procedural sedation research. Four core outcome domains were recommended for consideration in sedation clinical trials: (1) safety, (2) efficacy, (3) patient-centered and/or family-centered outcomes, and (4) efficiency. This meeting identified core outcome measures within the efficacy and patient-centered and/or family-centered domains. Safety will be addressed in a subsequent meeting, and efficiency will not be addressed at this time. These measures encompass depth and levels of sedation, proceduralist and patient satisfaction, patient recall, and degree of pain experienced. Consistent use of the recommended outcome measures will facilitate the comprehensive reporting across sedation trials, along with meaningful comparisons among studies and interventions in systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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- Mark R Williams
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York; †Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York; ‡Department of Anesthesiology, Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; §Department of Pediatrics, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois; ‖Department of Pediatrics, St John's Children's Hospital, Springfield, Illinois; ¶Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; #Department of Anesthesiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; **Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City; ††Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts; ‡‡Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; §§Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ‖‖Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ¶¶Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio; ##Pediatric Critical Care, Kosair Children's Hospital, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky; ***Section for Professional Standards, American Society of Anesthesiologists Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado; †††Department of Anesthesiology, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Paris, France; ‡‡‡Department of Pharmacology and Foundational Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; §§§Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York; ‖‖‖Division of Anesthesiology and CCM, Hadassah University Hospital, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel; ¶¶¶Annovation BioPharma, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ###Department of Anesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; ****Department of Anesthesiology, Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York; ††††Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia; ‡‡‡‡Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; §§§§Analgesic Concepts LLC, Arlington, Virginia; ‖‖‖‖Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; ¶¶¶¶Department of Critical Care Medicine and Neuroscience Institute, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine; ####Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; *****Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; †††††Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Josie Robertson Surgery Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; and ‡‡‡‡‡Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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El-Boghdadly K, Brull R, Sehmbi H, Abdallah FW. Perineural Dexmedetomidine Is More Effective Than Clonidine When Added to Local Anesthetic for Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block. Anesth Analg 2017; 124:2008-2020. [DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000002014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Rocha RG, Almeida EG, Carneiro LMM, Almeida NFD, Boas WWV, Gomez RS. [Anesthesia recovery comparison between remifentanil-propofol and remifentanil-desflurane guided by Bispectral Index ® monitoring]. Rev Bras Anestesiol 2017; 67:500-507. [PMID: 28551058 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjan.2017.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is a strong demand for fast and predictable anesthesia recovery with few side effects. Choice of the hypnotic agent could impact on that. This study investigated the differences between recoveries after remifentanil-propofol and remifentanil-desflurane anesthesias guided by bispectral index (BIS®). METHODS Forty patients were randomly assigned into 2 groups according to the anesthesia technique applied: remifentanil-propofol (REM-PRO) and remifentanil-desflurane (REM-DES). After the discontinuation of the anesthetics, the times to extubation, to obey commands and to recover the airway protection reflex were recorted. In the post-anesthetic recovery room (PACU) it was recorded the occurrence of nausea and vomiting (PONV), scores of Ramsay sedation scale and of numeric pain scale (NPS), morphine dose and length of stay in the unit. RESULTS Data from 38 patients were analyzed: 18 from REM-PRO and 20 from REM-DES group. Anesthesia times were similar (REM-PRO=193min, SD 79.9 vs. 175.7min, SD 87.9 REM-DES; p=0.5). REM-DES had shorter times than REM-PRO group: time to follow command (8.5min; SD 3.0 vs. 5.6min; SD 2.5; p=0.0) and extubation time (6.2 minutes; 3.1-8.5 vs. 9.5 minutes; 4.9-14.4; p=0.0). Times to recover airway protective reflex were similar: 16 patients from REM-PRO (88.9%) restored the airway protective reflex 2min after extubation vs. 17 from REM-DES (89.5%); and 2 patients from REM-PRO (11.1%) vs. 2 from REM-DES (10.5%) 6min after extubation, p=1. Ramsay sedation score, NPS, PONV incidents, morphine dose and PACU stay of length PACU were also similar. CONCLUSION Remifentanil-desflurane-based anesthesia has a faster extubation time and to follow command than remifentanil-propofol-based anesthesia when both guided by BIS®.
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- Raphael Grossi Rocha
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Faculdade de Medicina, Centro de Pós-graduação, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Anestesia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Anestesia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Anestesia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Anestesia, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Faculdade de Medicina, Centro de Pós-graduação, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
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Ambulatory anesthesia allows quick recovery from anesthesia, leading to an early discharge and rapid resumption of daily activities, which can be of great benefit to patients, healthcare providers, third-party payers, and hospitals. Recently, with the development of minimally invasive surgical techniques and short-acting anesthetics, the use of ambulatory surgery has grown rapidly. Additionally, as the indications for ambulatory surgery have widened, the surgical methods have become more complex and the number of comorbidities has increased. For successful and safe ambulatory anesthesia, the anesthesiologist must consider various factors relating to the patient. Among them, appropriate selection of patients and surgical and anesthetic methods, as well as postoperative management, should be considered simultaneously. Patient selection is a particularly important factor. Appropriate surgical and anesthetic techniques should be used to minimize postoperative complications, especially postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting. Patients and their caregivers should be fully informed of specific care guidelines and appropriate responses to emergency situations on discharge from the hospital. During this process, close communication between patients and medical staff, as well as postoperative follow-up appointments, should be ensured. In summary, safe and convenient methods to ensure the patient's return to function and recovery are necessary.
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- Jeong Han Lee
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
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Target-controlled inhalation anaesthesia: A cost-benefit analysis based on the cost per minute of anaesthesia by inhalation. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med 2017; 36:33-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2016.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lai HC, Chan SM, Lu CH, Wong CS, Cherng CH, Wu ZF. Planning for operating room efficiency and faster anesthesia wake-up time in open major upper abdominal surgery. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017; 96:e6148. [PMID: 28207547 PMCID: PMC5319536 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000006148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Reducing anesthesia-controlled time (ACT) may improve operation room (OR) efficiency result from different anesthetic techniques. However, the information about the difference in ACT between desflurane (DES) anesthesia and propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) techniques for open major upper abdominal surgery under general anesthesia (GA) is not available in the literature.This retrospective study uses our hospital database to analyze the ACT of open major upper abdominal surgery without liver resection after either desflurane/fentanyl-based anesthesia or TIVA via target-controlled infusion with fentanyl/propofol from January 2010 to December 2011. The various time intervals including waiting for anesthesia time, anesthesia time, surgical time, extubation time, exit from OR after extubation, total OR time, and postanesthetic care unit (PACU) stay time and percentage of prolonged extubation (≥15 minutes) were compared between these 2 anesthetic techniques.We included data from 343 patients, with 159 patients receiving TIVA and 184 patients receiving DES. The only significant difference is extubation time, TIVA was faster than the DES group (8.5 ± 3.8 vs 9.4 ± 3.7 minutes; P = 0.04). The factors contributed to prolonged extubation were age, gender, body mass index, DES anesthesia, and anesthesia time.In our hospital, propofol-based TIVA by target-controlled infusion provides faster emergence compared with DES anesthesia; however, it did not improve OR efficiency in open major abdominal surgery. Older, male gender, higher body mass index, DES anesthesia, and lengthy anesthesia time were factors that contribute to extubation time.
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- Hou-Chuan Lai
- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center
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- Division of Anesthesiology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center
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Li X, Liu G, Li Y, Li H, Liang F. A comparative study of sevoflurane and desflurane in the recovery of older patients undergoing thoracoscopic lobectomy. BIO WEB OF CONFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20170801046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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