Publications by authors named "Wooseok Sim"
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- The increase in plastic use has led to a rise in the production of primary and secondary microplastics, creating a need for effective identification and analysis methods.
- Traditional methods for analyzing microplastics often lack efficiency in determining size and shape, requiring extensive manual preparation and facing challenges with background noise.
- A new macroscale hyperspectral Raman method was developed, allowing rapid quantification and characterization of different microplastics in less than a minute, proving effective even in complex environments like water.
The thoracic splanchnic nerve block has been used in managing abdominal pain, especially for pains arising from abdominal cancers. A 27-year-old male patient who had a constant abdominal pain was referred to our clinic for pain management but had no organic disease. The numeric rating scale (NRS) for pain scored 7/10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBreakage of a thoracic epidural catheter during its removal -A case report-.
Korean J Anesthesiol
June 2010
The breakage of an epidural catheter is a rare complication during the removal of a thoracic epidural catheter. There are many causes to breakage of an epidural catheter, such as the characteristics of the catheter itself, patient's factors (anatomy, position during insertion and removal of the catheter, and the BMI), and the difficulty of the procedure. Surgical removal is considered if there is a possibility that the retained catheter might cause neurological problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGabapentin acts primarily on the central nervous system. Therefore, we hypothesized that the direct epidural administration of gabapentin could have various advantages over its oral administration with respect to required dose, side effects, and efficacy. However, before administering gabapentin into the epidural space in a clinical setting, its neurotoxicity must be examined in animals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Because hyaluronic acid (HA) has an antiinflammatory effect and prevents and/or reduces tissue adhesion, we believed it possible that epidurally-administered HA during epidural adhesiolysis procedures could alleviate pain in patients with chronic lower back pain. Therefore, we performed this pre-clinical trial evaluation of epidurally-administered HA neurotoxicity by light microscopy (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) in rabbits. Twenty rabbits were randomly divided into two groups, a normal saline (NS) group (n = 10) and a HA group (n = 10).
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