Effects of hand catalepsy on subjective trance perception and relative parasympathetic tone in healthy volunteers during pleasant hypnotic session: a randomized controlled study.

This study was designed to evaluate the effects on hand catalepsy on parasympathetic tone assessed using Analgesia/Nociception Index (ANI) and on subjective rating of absorption, dissociation, and time perception among healthy volunteers. This was a randomized controlled trial including participants to a medical hypnosis congress in France. Ninety volunteers were randomized in two arms, all receiving a fifteen-minute positive hypnotic trance, with or without hand catalepsy.

Effects of a training program in medical hypnosis on burnout in anesthesiologists and other healthcare providers: A survey study.

Objective: To determine whether the participation to a medical hypnosis training program reduces the levels of burnout in healthcare providers.

Design: Survey study.

Settings: Study conducted from 2014 to 2018 using the MBI-HSS questionnaire assessing three dimensions of burnout: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA).

HYPNOTIC GLOVE ANESTHESIA INDUCES SKIN TEMPERATURE CHANGES IN ADULT VOLUNTEERS: A Prospective Controlled Pilot Study.

This study assessed whether a focal glove hypnotic hand anesthesia induced thermal changes within the area of hypnotic protection. Skin temperature of hands, wrists, and forearms was continuously recorded bilaterally using infrared thermography in 30 volunteers. Thermal recordings were obtained prior to, after glove building, and after its withdrawal, with the contralateral upper limb serving as control side.

Effects of hypnosis on the relative parasympathetic tone assessed by ANI (Analgesia/Nociception Index) in healthy volunteers: a prospective observational study.

Hypnosis has shown an effect on the regulation of the autonomic nervous system by increasing parasympathetic activity. The Analgesia/Nociception Index (ANI) is derived from heart rate variability and represents the relative parasympathetic tone. We investigated the effects of hypnosis on ANI in healthy volunteers.

[Ambulatory Essure implant placement sterilization procedure for women: prospective study comparing general anesthesia versus hypnosis combined with sedation].

Objective: implant placement Essure, sterilization procedure for women, were performed under hypnosedation (HYP) and compared to the operative anxiety and analgesia of 12 patients operated-on under general anesthesia (GA).

Study Design: prospective and comparative group study.

Patients And Methods: two groups of twelve patients were matched and compared based on the choice of anesthetic technique: hypnotics (HYP) with possible additional sedation by propofol and remifentanil or GA involving propofol, sevoflurane and remifentanil.

A new bioinformatics paradigm for the theory, research, and practice of therapeutic hypnosis.

In a 2008 pilot study we used DNA microarrays to explore the historical ideo-plastic faculty of therapeutic hypnosis. We documented how to measure changes in activity or experience-dependent gene expression over relatively brief time periods (1 hour and 24 hours) following a single intervention of therapeutic hypnosis (about 1 hour). In the present paper we utilize bioinformatic software to explore the possible meaning and significance of this ideo-plastic faculty of therapeutic hypnosis.

["Malaise" at an emergency department. Diagnostic approach].

From a prospective study of 152 patients admitted to an emergency department on account of "malaise" (i.e. dizziness with or without syncope), the authors have extracted a number of interesting points.

[Acute carbon monoxide poisoning in the emergency service. The importance of early signs. 90 cases].

The authors describe 90 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning admitted to their unit. The high incidence of accidental poisoning may be partly related to the energy crisis. They underline the importance of recognising the early symptoms, headache, vomiting, weakness of the legs, allowing early diagnosis before irreversible complication set in.

[Type E botulism. Two recent cases (author's transl)].

Two brothers, aged 29 and 31, developed severe type E botulism 12 hours after eating salted herrings. The younger died rapidly, the other survived after treatment with type E botulinus antitoxin under intensive care. Limited electromyographic exploration of the surviving patient showed characteristic signs of presynaptic block.