Publications by authors named "Angineh Gharapetian"
Article Synopsis
- Pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents during surgery can lead to serious complications, prompting research into using gastric ultrasound to assess stomach fullness.
- In a study with 40 volunteers, participants were fasted or given food before undergoing ultrasound examinations to determine the presence of gastric content.
- Results showed that point-of-care gastric ultrasound was highly effective, achieving a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 97.5%, indicating it can reliably detect or rule out a full stomach in uncertain clinical situations.
The transversalis fascia plane block is a relatively new truncal block that targets the iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal nerves. It is gaining wider usage for its reliability to block these nerves as compared with the transversus abdominis plane block. The case presented here appears to be the first time that motor weakness has resulted from this block technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFErratum to: Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth DOI 10.1007/s12630-014-0299-2 In the article entitled: "Perioperative fellowship curricula in anesthesiology: a systematic review" published Online First and in the print version of the April 2015 issue of the Journal, Can J Anesth 2015; DOI 10.1007/s12630-014- 0299-2, the following note should have been included on the title page: 'This article is accompanied by an editorial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Perioperative medicine is emerging as a unique area of medical practice. Anesthesiology graduates are particularly well suited for this role given their training. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the various fellowships being offered in perioperative medicine and the scope of clinical perioperative practice that currently exists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The primary hypothesis of the study is that acoustic neuroma (AN) surgery and microvascular decompression (MVD) of cranial nerves increase the risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV).
Methods: We designed a retrospective case-control study matched on age, sex, and year of surgery (≤2005 and >2005). Year of surgery was noted as a potential confounder, because routine antiemetic prophylaxis was strongly encouraged at the study site in 2005.
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of permanent and transient congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in Isfahan, Iran.
Methods: In 256 primarily diagnosed CH patients identified through the neonatal screening programme from May 2002 to February 2005, treatment was discontinued for 4 weeks and T4 and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) were measured. Permanent or transient CH was determined from the results of the thyroid function tests and the radiologic findings.