7 results match your criteria: "Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta[Affiliation]"
Pain is common in the acute phase of Guillain-Barré Syndrome and can be severe and refractory. Pain in GBS may not always respond to contemporary pain therapy. An epidural can potentially be considered for the treatment of refractory pain after a careful patient-centered discussion with the patient about risks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDevelopmental programming of cardiovascular function: a translational perspective.
Clin Sci (Lond)
November 2020
Women and Children's Health Research Institute University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) is a concept linking pre- and early postnatal exposures to environmental influences with long-term health outcomes and susceptibility to disease. It has provided a new perspective on the etiology and evolution of chronic disease risk, and as such is a classic example of a paradigm shift. What first emerged as the 'fetal origins of disease', the evolution of the DOHaD conceptual framework is a storied one in which preclinical studies played an important role.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnesthesia for clavicular fracture and surgery.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
January 2015
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Reducing and washing off local anesthetic for continuous interscalene block.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
October 2014
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada.
Can direct spinal cord injury occur without paresthesia? A report of delayed spinal cord injury after epidural placement in an awake patient.
Anesth Analg
October 2005
*Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and †Department of Anesthesia, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Unlabelled: We discuss the etiology of a delayed spinal cord injury after epidural anesthesia without paresthesia. The description of such a case in an awake, adult patient who underwent a Whipple resection is provided. An epidural was performed at approximately the T8-9 interspace with the patient in the sitting position after 1 mg of midazolam was administered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRelative value to surgical patients and anesthesia providers of selected anesthesia related outcomes.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
February 2003
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Background: Anesthesia side effects are almost inevitable in most situations. In order to optimize the anesthetic experience from the patient's viewpoint, it makes intuitive sense to attempt to avoid the side effects that the patient fears the most.
Methods: We obtained rankings and quantitative estimates of the relative importance of nine experiences that commonly occur after anesthesia and surgery from 109 patients prior to their surgery and from 30 anesthesiologists.