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Anesthesia care task sharing a clinical audit for the anesthesia care provided by anesthesia technologists in Wad Medani,Central Sudan
Introduction: The bachelor's degree in anaesthesia sciences program was implemented in Sudan in 1998 to alleviate the shortage of anaesthesiologists while minimizing the anaesthesia related complications of anaesthesia technicians' practice. In the absence of a defined scope of practice and a lack …
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On Automation in Anesthesia
… of the hypnotic and the analgesic components of anesthesia. The objective of the work has been to develop a system which independently controls the intravenous infusion rates of the hypnotic drug propofol and analgesic drug remifentanil. The system is designed to track a reference hypnotic depth …
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Measuring Nociception Under Anesthesia
Sixty thousand patients receive general anesthesia each day in the US alone. The problem of monitoring and managing nociception, the flow of information associated with harmful stimuli through the nervous system even when unconscious, in real time is critical during surgery. While there are …
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L1-Adaptive Control for Anesthesia Delivery
… control methods for the closed-loop control of anesthesia delivery during surgery. Our initial objective, described herein, is to design controllers that are robust to inter-patient variability, such that patients follow a prespecified Bispectral Index (BIS) profile. The controllers are then …
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Motivational Factors of the Nurse Anesthesia Student
… nurses (RN’s) in entering a graduate nurse anesthesia educational program. The intent was to identity specific motivators to provide information helpful in increasing the number of anesthesia educational program enrollments to alleviate the shortage of certified registered nurse anesthetists …
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Patient safety and Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia
Veterinary anesthesia is a specialty in which medical errors can lead to significant patient harm. The aim of this thesis was to identify factors contributing to errors in veterinary anesthesia, evaluate the effectiveness of a pre-induction checklist in reducing omission errors, and develop a …
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Monitoring, diagnosis, and control for advanced anesthesia management
<p>Modern anesthesia management is a comprehensive and the most critical issue in medical care. During the past dacades, a large amount of research works have been focused on the problems of monitoring anesthesia depth, modeling the dynamics of anesthesia patient for the purpose of control, …
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CRNA Decision-Making Within the Anesthesia Care Team
… on their decision-making skills within the Anesthesia Care Team (ACT). The emphasis of the study was to examine CRNA’s perspectives on the strengths, challenges, conflict resolutions, and any other information they were willing to divulge when working with physician anesthesiologists in the …
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Optimizing Locoregional Anesthesia for Fast Track Orthopedic Surgery
Contains fulltext : 209501.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Role of Neuronal Leak Channels in Anesthesia
<p>Volatile anesthetics (VAs) cause profound effects, including reversible lossof consciousness and immobility. The mechanism of action of VAs remains oneof the great, unsolved puzzles of neuroscience and medicine. Recent geneticstudies revealed that mutations that change anesthetic sensitivity in …
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Standardized post-anesthesia handoff to improve interdepartmental communication
… Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) and the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Registered Nurses (RN), as the patient is waking up from the procedure and eliminating anesthetic gases and medications while opiates and regional medications are onsetting. During this period, the patient also has an …
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Food Insecurity’s Relationship with Children’s BMI and General Anesthesia
… dental caries requiring treatment under general anesthesia (GA). This study hypothesizes that FI children are associated with higher BMI and increased need for GA. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with patients aged 3–17 receiving dental care at UIC COD. Legal guardians completed a …
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Computer Assisted Continuous Infusion of Fentanyl During Cardiac Anesthesia.
… research in this field is making the practice of anesthesia a more precise science. Nevertheless, today anesthesia is at least as much an art as it is a science, relying heavily on the experience of the anesthesiologist in attendance to diagnose and treat the patient. This normally involves choice …
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Heart Rate Variability analysis in patients undergoing local anesthesia
The analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), the beat to beat fluctuation in the heart rate, is a non-invasive technique with a main aim in gaining information about the autonomic neural regulation of the heart. Assessment of HRV has been shown to aid clinical diagnosis and intervention …
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Improving Anesthesia Provider’s Understanding of Post-Anesthetic Breastfeeding Recommendations
… physician anesthesiologists, and post-anesthesia care nurses understanding of evidence-based postanesthetic breastfeeding recommendations.Background. Education was developed to address the outdated practice of pumping-and-dumping human milk for 24 hours after an anesthetic. This …
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Multivariable Modeling and Control of the Response to Anesthesia
To address these shortcomings, this dissertation proposes the use of piecewise-linear multivariable models of the effects of anesthetic and stimuli inputs on patient vital signs. These models are developed by utilizing data-based system identification methods. Different model structures such as …
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE BUCKLING BEHAVIOR OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA NEEDLES
The use of large gauge (G) spinal anesthesia needles can increase complications due to buckling. The purpose of this study was to, first, create a model to repeatably simulate and quantify the behavior of spinal needles in buckling and, second, quantify the buckling behavior of spinal anesthesia …
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Curare as an adjuvant to general anesthesia in the dog
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