Epidural analgesia for the treatment of colic attack with retrocaval ureter in late pregnancy complicated with marginal placenta previa: a case report.

Background: Retrocaval ureter was diagnosed in a woman complaining of ureteric pain in the last trimester of pregnancy. We describe the rationale behind the administration of epidural analgesia for her colic attack.

Case Presentation: A 41-year-old pregnant woman was hospitalized with a diagnosis of a marginal placenta previa at 34 weeks and 5 days of pregnancy.

[Successful Management of Cardiopulmonary Bypass Using Heparin in a Patient with Previous History of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia].

Anti-coagulant management of cardiopulmonary bypass for the patient complicated with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is difficult. A woman of late 50's with a previous history of HIT was scheduled for mitral valve replacement, tricuspid valvuloplasty and coronary artery bypass graft. We knew that heparin antibody was negative by serologic and functional assay before the operation.

Effectiveness of multidisciplinary team conference on decision-making surrounding the application of continuous deep sedation for terminally ill cancer patients.

Objective: Continuous deep sedation (CDS) is a way to reduce conscious experience of symptoms of severe suffering in terminally ill cancer patients. However, there is wide variation in the frequency of its reported. So we conducted a retrospective analysis to assess the prevalence and features of CDS in our palliative care unit (PCU).

Olanzapine for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients receiving highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Context: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) can severely impair patients' quality of life (QOL). Psychotropics, especially olanzapine, have a strong antiemetic effect.

Objectives: To determine whether olanzapine could reduce the frequency of CINV and improve patients' QOL during chemotherapy.

[Optimal analgesic effect of continuous supraclavicular brachial plexus block with ropivacaine after shoulder surgery].

Background: Optimal dose of local anesthetics for supraclavicular brachial plexus block (BPB) is still unknown. We prospectively investigated the analgesic effect of ultrasound-guided continuous supraclavicular BPB with ropivacaine at different infusion rates.

Methods: Thirty-nine patients scheduled to undergo shoulder surgery were randomly assigned to four groups; receiving no continuous BPB (control group, n = 10), BPB with 0.