A Boy Who Knows No Pain: Anaesthetic Management of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain With Anhidrosis.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is a rare disorder with an absence of pain perception, anhidrosis, heat intolerance, and varying degrees of mental retardation. Though cases of CIPA have innate analgesia, they have been known to have tactile hyperesthesia, thus making anesthesia necessary in case of any surgery. Perioperative complications due to abnormal autonomic functions like bradycardia, hypotension, and hyperthermia are major challenges in the anesthetic management of these cases.

Utilizing nasal-tragus length to estimate optimal endotracheal tube depth in neonates: A prospective randomized control study.

Background: Determination of the optimal depth of endotracheal tube insertion in neonates is challenging. Various formulae have been proposed and are being commonly used for this purpose. There is no single formula that is ideal or can be applied across different populations.

Low tidal volume ventilation strategy and organ functions in patients with pre-existing systemic inflammatory response.

Background And Aims: Ventilation can induce increase in inflammatory mediators that may contribute to systemic organ dysfunction. Ventilation-induced organ dysfunction is likely to be accentuated if there is a pre-existing systemic inflammatory response.

Material And Methods: Adult patients suffering from intestinal perforation peritonitis-induced systemic inflammatory response syndrome and scheduled for emergency laparotomy were randomized to receive intraoperative ventilation with 10 ml.

Presentation of research in anesthesia: Culmination into publication?

Background: To assess the quality of research presentations made in conferences, its success or failure to be published in a peer-reviewed journal is a well-accepted marker. However, there is no data regarding the publication of research presentations made in Indian conferences of anesthesiology.

Objective: The primary objective was to determine publication rate of research presented at the largest and best attended national conference in anesthesiology, the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists' Conference (ISACON), and also compare it with the rate from an international conference American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA annual meeting) held in the same year.