Association of Automated Text Messaging With Patient Response Rate After Same-Day Surgery.

This quality improvement study assesses the association of automated text messaging follow-up with the patient response rate after same-day surgery.

Opioid-related genetic polymorphisms do not influence postoperative opioid requirement: A prospective observational study.

Background: Among the various factors that may influence the pharmacological response to opioids, genetic polymorphisms [single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)] have generated some interest.

Objectives: To examine the influence on morphine dose requirements and adverse events in the postoperative period of four SNP [opioid receptor mu1 (OPRM1), ATP-binding cassette subfamily B, member 1 (ABCB1) ex-21 and ex-26, catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT)] in candidate genes involved in morphine pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.

Design: A single centre prospective study.

Benefit of a single recruitment maneuver after an apnea test for the diagnosis of brain death.

Introduction: Many potential lung transplants are lost because of hypoxemia during donor management. We hypothesized that the apnea test, necessary to confirm the diagnosis of brain death in potential lung donors, was involved in the decrease in the ratio of partial pressure of arterial O₂ to fraction of inspired O₂ (PaO₂/FiO₂) and that a single recruitment maneuver performed just after the apnea test can reverse this alteration.

Methods: In this case-control study, we examined the effectiveness of the recruitment maneuver with a comparison cohort of brain dead patients who did not receive the maneuver.

Direct laryngoscopy should be procedure of choice in the airway management of patients with dental cellulitis.

Context: Airway management of patients with dental cellulitis can be difficult due to laryngeal deviation and oedema. Awake fibre-optic intubation has been recommended.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess our routine procedure which is based mainly on direct laryngoscopy.

Relationships between plasma concentrations of morphine, morphine-3-glucuronide, morphine-6-glucuronide, and intravenous morphine titration outcomes in the postoperative period.

Although intravenous morphine titration (IMT) is widely used to control moderate to severe postoperative pain, the relationships between plasma concentrations of morphine and its metabolites, morphine-3-glucuronide (M3G) and morphine-6-glucuronide (M6G), and IMT outcomes in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) have not been yet investigated. IMT was administrated as a bolus of 2 or 3 mg every 5 min. Titration was interrupted in case of pain relief (visual analog score ≤30), adverse events, sedation, or failure of morphine titration.