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J Palliat Med
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
We present a case of a patient with an intrathecal pump who experienced an unrecognized partial pocket fill, leading to an atypical opioid withdrawal characterized by akathisia. A 57-year-old female with multiple myeloma presented to an emergency department with new-onset akathisia requiring admission. Eight weeks prior, her intrathecal pump was refilled with morphine, bupivacaine, and ziconotide.
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January 2025
Departments of Anesthesiology.
J Neurosurg Anesthesiol
January 2025
Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Cureus
December 2024
Urology, Datta Meghe Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Nagpur, IND.
General anesthesia is the gold standard for breast cancer surgeries. Considering the nature of the surgery and its associated pain, various regional techniques are used as an adjunct to general anesthesia. Regional anesthesia as a sole anesthetic technique for breast cancer surgery is an upcoming technique - especially in high-risk patients considering the risk-benefit ratio, various regional blocks like pectoralis major block, pectoralis minor block, and erector spinae block - in which thoracic segmental spinal anesthesia is the recent one.
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December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, JPN.
Sotos syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by distinct facial features, intellectual disability, and overgrowth. In this case, a patient with Sotos syndrome presented with severe intellectual disability, for which general anesthesia was initially considered. However, at the request of the patient's guardian, the treatment was performed under intravenous sedation.
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