Background: The Masimo Radical 7(®) is a new pulse CO oximeter designed to measure methemoglobin. The device has not been evaluated in a clinical setting.
Methods: In this prospective observational study we compared the arterial methemoglobin levels and the corresponding pulse CO-oximetric values of the Radical 7(®) in regional anesthesia with prilocaine.
Results: We analyzed 360 data pairs with methemoglobin values up to 6.6%. The mean bias and limits (± 1.96 sd) of the device were 0.27% (± 1.33%).
Conclusion: We found a high degree of agreement in measurement of methemoglobin between the 2 methods.
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Wilderness Environ Med
January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier Sud Réunion (CHU de La Réunion), Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France.
Introduction: Although marine envenomations are a reason for consultation in tropical emergency departments, stonefish stings are particularly feared. Immediate management focuses on pain control, whereas late management addresses cutaneous complications. This study presents a new series and compares the management of these patients and their outcomes at our center over the past 20 years.
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Department of Anesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
January 2025
Division of Pain Management, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Background: To provide recommendations on risk mitigation, diagnosis and treatment of infectious complications associated with the practice of regional anesthesia, acute and chronic pain management.
Methods: Following board approval, in 2020 the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine) commissioned evidence-based guidelines for best practices for infection control. More than 80 research questions were developed and literature searches undertaken by assigned working groups comprising four to five members.
Agri
January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Türkiye.
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to compare the efficacy of two regional anesthesia methods, transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block and erector spinae plane (ESP) block, for intraoperative and postoperative pain relief in patients undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy.
Methods: Fifty patients aged 18-80 years with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification I-II scheduled for elective laparoscopic nephrectomy were included after ethical approval and informed consent. Patients were randomly assigned to either Group TAP (receiving TAP block) or Group ESP (receiving ESP block).
Agri
January 2025
Division of Algology, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Türkiye.
The superior hypogastric plexus (SHP) contains afferent nociceptive fibers from the pelvic structures, thus the SHP block is employed in the chronic pelvic pain (CPP) treatment in patients who do not respond to conservative treatments. A 60-year-old female patient, who did not respond to conservative treatment, underwent SHP neurolytic block after a successful diagnostic block. An excessive oblique angle approach was applied due to physical restrictions, the needle passed through the intervertebral disc resulting in the contralateral side SHP block, and the procedure was also repeated to the other side SHP.
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