Acupuncture accelerates recovery after general anesthesia: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

Background: Acupuncture anesthesia was created in the 1950's in China and continues to be used there today during most major surgeries. It is widely used in China for such complex operations as brain, heart, and abdominal surgery. It is popular in China because it is economical, practical, and beneficial to the patients.

Anesthesiologist intervention during cataract surgery under topical or peribulbar anesthesia: a propensity model comparison.

Purpose: To compare the incidence and type of anesthesiologist intervention during cataract surgery under peribulbar (PA) or topical (TLA) anesthesia in a day-surgery monitored anesthesia care setting (monitoring provided by nurses with the anesthesiologist available on an on-call basis).

Methods: From a prospective database of all phacoemulsifications performed in our hospital (January 2008-January 2009), 97 patients submitted to cataract surgery under PA were matched with 97 patients submitted to the same surgery under TA by a propensity model. The resulting groups were homogeneous as to history of antihypertensive therapy administered on the day of surgery and not administered on the day of surgery, cardiologic history, neurologic history, psychiatric history, anxiolytic assumption, and history of diabetes mellitus.

Ropivacaine peritonsillar infiltration for analgesia after adenotonsillectomy in children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Objectives: Our randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluates the possible benefit of peritonsillar infiltration with 0.75% ropivacaine hydrochloride on the pain level after adenotonsillectomy in 3- to 7-year-old children.

Methods: We randomly administered intraoperative peritonsillar infiltration with 0.

Sedative effect of acupuncture during cataract surgery: prospective randomized double-blind study.

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of acupuncture in reducing anxiety in patients having cataract surgery under topical anesthesia.

Setting: Vita-Salute University of Milan and IRCCS H. San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Bispectral index evaluation of the sedative effect of acupuncture in healthy volunteers.

Objective: To evaluate the sedative effect of acupuncture in healthy volunteers by means of the BIS monitor. Secondary end-points were the evaluation of subjective sedative sensation induced by acupuncture and possible lasting of the sedative effect post needles removal.

Methods: We performed a cross-over, single-blinded study on 10 healthy volunteers to evaluate objective and subjective sedative effect of acupuncture compared to sham acupuncture.

Acupuncture for diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study.

Patients usually fear fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FBS) and they report a low level of satisfaction after this examination. We evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture in decreasing patient anxiety before diagnostic FBS and in improving tolerance to the examination. In a prospective double-blind study, we enrolled 48 patients scheduled to undergo diagnostic FBS.

A prospective, randomized, double-blinded comparison of ropivacaine 0.5%, 0.75%, and 1% ropivacaine for peribulbar block.

Study Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of three different concentrations of ropivacaine (0.5%, 0.75%, and 1%) together with a single concentration of hyaluronidase administered for peribulbar block.