Perioperative hypothermia in neonatal intensive care unit patients: effectiveness of a thermoregulation intervention and associated risk factors.

Background: Hypothermia in neonatal intensive care unit patients is associated with morbidity. Perioperative normothermia is the standard of care.

Aims: We hypothesized that a quality improvement intervention (transport protocol, transport education, ongoing monitoring) would decrease the incidence of perioperative hypothermia.

Sugammadex: A Comprehensive Review of the Published Human Science, Including Renal Studies.

Although neuromuscular block (NMB) allows immobility for airway management and surgical exposure, termination of its effect is limited by and associated with side effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Sugammadex is a selective relaxant binding agent that has been shown to reverse deep NMB, even when administered 3 minutes following a 1.2 mg/kg dose of rocuronium.

A paradigm for awake intraoperative memory mapping during forniceal stimulation.

A case report is presented detailing the successful use of awake intraoperative memory testing while using white matter stimulation in order to isolate the fornix tracks involved in memory function. The identification of the white matter tracks of the fornix that were involved in memory function was used to tailor the neurosurgical resection of a third ventricle tumor that was impinging on the fornix in order to successfully preserve memory functioning in the patient.