Publications by authors named "Bruno Mendes Carmona"

Introduction: Hemicorporectomy progresses with hemodynamic and ventilatory repercussions that make anesthesia management definitive to patient outcome.

Objective: Report anesthesia approach for a patient with squamous cell carcinoma submitted to urgent hemicorporectomy after an episode of hypovolemic shock.

Case Report: After lesion bleeding, the patient presented hypovolemic shock class 3, and was submitted to urgent procedure under general inhalation anesthesia and intravenous multimodal analgesia, presenting hemodynamic instability requiring massive blood transfusion after spinal cord transection and removal of surgical specimen.

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Background: Adequate preoperative fasting is critical in preventing pulmonary aspiration of gastric content. We proposed to study the sonographic gastric content dynamics after the ingestion of liquid or solid food in healthy volunteers and confront it with current guidelines for preoperative fasting times.

Methods: We performed a prospective, crossover, evaluator-blinded study involving 17 healthy volunteers of both sexes.

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Cardiac arrest during neuraxial anesthesia is a serious adverse event, which may lead to significant neurological damage and death if not treated promptly. The associated mechanisms are neglected respiratory failure, extensive sympathetic block, local anaesthetic toxicity, total spinal block, in addition to the growing awareness of the vagal predominance as a predisposing factor. In the case reported, the patient was 25 years old, ASA I, scheduled for aesthetic lipoplasty.

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Bruno Mendes Carmona"

  • - Bruno Mendes Carmona's research primarily focuses on anesthesia management in complex surgical scenarios, including perioperative medical errors, hemicorporectomy, and the dynamics of gastric content volumes in relation to preoperative fasting guidelines.
  • - His recent study on medical errors in anesthetic practices highlights the critical factors associated with such errors, aiming to improve patient safety in perioperative settings.
  • - Carmona also explores the physiological implications of anesthetic techniques, as illustrated by case studies involving cardiac arrest during neuraxial anesthesia and the assessment of gastric content after different food intakes, emphasizing the importance of tailored anesthesia management.