http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/cgi/content/abstract/108/2/544 Â Ivan Hronek MD Los Angeles, CA http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anesthideas/ Do not...
Thanks Ivan - very interesting. I think they do themselves a disservice with their final sentence - "clinically reliable". This is overdoing it. I think their...
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Dear All! Migh I be so free to ask about the newest guidelines for oxygen therapy by head injuries and other urgent neurologycal cases? Many thanks! Yr A...
Check out the Brain Trauma Foundation (www.braintrauma.org/ <http://www.braintrauma.org/> ). They publish the Guidelines for management of severe brain...
Multidrug Cocktail for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Addition of steroids might provide significant benefit. About 80% of patients with in-hospital cardiac...
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/102/2/156 In conclusion, in patients undergoing major surgery under generalanaesthesia and receiving systemic...
http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/102/2/264 Â Ivan Hronek MD Los Angeles, CA http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Anesthideas/ Do not fear to be...
For about 20 years, we have administered intrathecal morphine along with local for Caesarean Sections. While pruritis is common, other side effects are not....
Nice new type style Vic ! ..I would agree with you as doo a lot of papers (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intrathecal+Morphine+cesarean+section&hl=en&lr=)...
Nice new type style Vic ! ..I would agree with you as doo a lot of papers (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=intrathecal+Morphine+cesarean+section ...
Ivan, I changed to using preservative free Dilaudid in my spinals for postoperative pain management. Principally I do this for total knee and total hip...
Mauricio, welcome to the group ! I have always believed exactly what you are describing and could rarely find some data to support that: once it was written in...
Hossam, thanks for the posting - interesting - however I believe it would be hard to start administering corticosteroids just based on the indirect assumption...
As to our previous discussion about the differeneces of using a statistically predetermined number such as MAC (e.g keep over 1.2 MAC) with vapor anesthesia or...
Now that Propofol is generic and at least in my hospital is many times cheaper than potent inhalational anesthetics including Isoflurane let's see if we can...
Trying to determine a BIS number that correlates to "loss of consciusness" is impossible with the BIS machines lagging 20 seconds behind "real time" and the...
... times cheaper than potent inhalational anesthetics including Isoflurane let's see if we can all�put together info pro and con: Ivan, How are you...
Ivan, thanks for the articles; I have noticed that you're really good at these article searches. As far as intrathecal Morphine versus Dilaudid, I don't think...
Hi Hansel,  you seem to like to find that someone is omitting some basic knowledge even without your actually knowing that is so and you just attack that...
Paul, Â the pumps are not the problem. A delay of 20 sec bothers your scientific mind ? Well...ours is not an exact science so we need to do away with what we...
... I would be interested to hear what actual fresh gas flow you mean Ivan. I can usually get through an all day list using sevoflurane without refilling the...
$ 1.20 per vial of Propofol only ! This is a big hospital chain price of course, but I think they are obviously trying to compete with Baxter and Abbott and...
$ 1.20 per vial of Propofol only ! This is a big hospital chain price of course, but I think they are obviously trying to compete with Baxter and Abbott and...
Hi Ivan, My apologies for sounding so hostile. No malice intended in my comments; and I especially have no intention of directing them at any one particular...
Ivan, When you go to low flow anesthesia, cost goes down significantly and changes in vapor concentration also occur quite slowly. When your IV falls out or...
There's another expense associated with propofol which has only been mentioned indirectly. TIVA is one technique (pretty much the only one) in which BIS...