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Why retrobulbar anesthesia?
Why retrobulbar Anesthesia?

Archive of "Anesthesia Progress".
Archive of "Anesthesia Progress".

MedlinePlus Interactive Tutorials: General Anesthesia
MedlinePlus Interactive Tutorials: General Anesthesia

Epidural Anesthesia
The medications used may cause decreased blood pressure. This can be recognized and treated. Less than 1 out of 100 women may experience a headache following an epidural. If this occurs, it can also be treated. A woman s back may be sore from the injection for a few days. Occasionally an epidural does not work effectively and a woman may still feel pain, or pain on one side. Labor contractions may slow down, and a woman may not be able to push as effectively, so interventions such as the medication Pitocin to stimulate contractions, forceps or vacuum extraction to help deliver the baby s head, or a cesarean birth may become necessary. Studies have suggested that there are more breastfeeding difficulties after birth in mothers who have used epidural Anesthesia. Minimal amounts of medication are used, and these medications will not harm the baby before birth, but can cause subtle effects such as a lower heart rate, and less movement getting into position for delivery. Because different medications and amounts used influence the amount of these effects, it is difficult for research to measure the incidence of these potential side effects. Until an epidural wears off, a woman is not able to walk around or go to the bathroom. Serious complications are very rare, but if the drug enters a vein a woman could get dizzy or have a seizure, and if the drug enters the spinal fluid it can make it hard to breathe. To avoid these complicati

Dental Anesthesia/Sedation
*Note: "Acceptable accrediting body" means an accrediting body which is accepted by the Department as a reliable authority for the purpose of accrediting educational programs in Anesthesia, applies its criteria for granting accreditation in a fair, consistent, and nondiscriminatory manner, and which accredits programs on a national basis.

SOM - Anesthesia Technician
Assists anesthesiologists in the formulation and implementation of an Anesthesia care plan and sets up Anesthesia machines such as cardiac monitors, breathing apparatus or suction equipment in the operating room to assist the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist during and prior to operation on a patient. Calibrates, maintains, and operates a wide variety of specialized technical equipment. Applies knowledge of surgical equipment placement, medical terminology, and sequence of operation procedures to assist physician or nurse anesthetist. Orders supplies, drugs, and equipment. May organize and manage functioning of the Anesthesia workroom.

Search of: Open Studies | Anesthesia - List Results - ClinicalTrials.gov
Device: connection of measuring device to Anesthesia circuit; Procedure: drawing of blood sample through an arterial line, placed according to clinical criteria by primary Anesthesia team; Procedure: changing operating room bed position (head down and up position); Procedure: adding PEEP during Anesthesia; Procedure: placement of esophageal Doppler for cardiac output measurements; Device: Humidity sensor; Device: A mixing chamber (bymixer); Device: Pneumotachometer cuvette; Device: Mass spectrometer sampling port

Definition of anesthesia - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Anesthesia

MedlinePlus: Anesthesia
Regional Anesthesia: blocks pain in an area of the body, such an arm or leg. Epidural Anesthesia, which is sometimes used during childbirth, is a type of regional Anesthesia.

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Anesthesia Technician Position Descriptions - National Anesthesia Service
The first benefit of getting your Anesthesia Technicians into the MIT series is that the qualification standard provides a career ladder. As your technician gains new skills and takes on new duties and responsibilities s/ he can request promotion through evaluation by the Professional Standards Board. You will not have to write and have classified a new Position Description locally. You will need to write a Functional Statement (a less formal process than classification) for each grade you seek to use and it must agree with the KSAs, duties and assignments for that particular grade within the Qualification Standard.

NYS Dentistry - Dental Anesthesia/Sedation Certification
General Anesthesia means an induced state of unconsciousness, accompanied by partial or complete loss of protective reflexes, including the inability to continually maintain an airway independently and respond purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal command, and is produced by a pharmacologic or non-pharmacologic method or a combination thereof.

Anesthesia Management During Cataract Surgery: Summary of Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 16
All of the major classes of techniques reported yielded good or excellent intraoperative pain control. The evidence was strong that retrobulbar and peribulbar techniques produce equivalent pain control during cataract surgery, and there was moderate evidence indicating superior pain control with the use of subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's approaches compared with retrobulbar block. There was insufficient evidence to determine whether peribulbar or subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's Anesthesia results in better pain control during surgery. There was strong evidence that retrobulbar block results in less pain during cataract surgery than topical Anesthesia, moderate evidence that peribulbar block results in less pain during cataract surgery than topical Anesthesia, and weak evidence that subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's block results in less pain during cataract surgery than topical Anesthesia.

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1 NAL Call. No.: SF601.A47 Acetaminophen toxicosis: a potential model for acute liver failure in swine. Artwohl, J.E.; Henne-Bruns, D.; Carter, E.; Cera, L.M. Manhattan, Kan. : American Academy of Veterinary and Comparative Toxicology; 1988 Aug. Veterinary and human toxicology v. 30 (4): p. 324-328. ill; 1988 Aug. Includes references. Language: English Descriptors: Pigs; Analgesics; Poisoning; Liver function; Biopsy 2 NAL Call. No.: SF601.A46 Acupuncture for the treatment of chronic back pain in 200 horses. Martin, B.B. Jr; Klide, A.M. Lexington, Ky. : The Association; 1992. Proceedings of the annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (37): p. 593-601; 1992. Meeting held December 1-4, 1991, San Francisco, California. Includes references. Language: English Descriptors: Horses; Acupuncture; Pain 3 NAL Call. No.: SF910.P34A55 1992 Acute pain from castration and tail docking of lambs. Molony, V.; Wood, G.N. New York : Churchill Livingstone; 1992. Animal pain / edited by Charles E. Short, Alan Van Poznak. p. 385-395, 400-401; 1992. Includes references. Language: English Descriptors: Lambs; Pain; Tail; Cutting; Castration; Anesthesia; Local Anesthesia; Xylazine; Morphine; Etorphine; Naloxone; Drug effects 4 NAL Call. No.: 41.8 R3224 Alleviation of postanesthetic hypoxemia in the horse. McMurphy, R.M.; Cribb, P.H. Ottawa : Canadian Veterinary Medical Association; 1989 Jan. The Canadian veterinary journal v. 30 (1): p. 37-41; 1989 Jan. Includes references. Language: English Descriptors: Horses; Anesthesia; Adverse effects; Hypoxia; Therapy; Oxygen; Partial pressure 5 NAL Call. No.: 442.8 J8222 Alterations in pituitary gland sensitivity in ram lambs to physiological doses of gonadotrophin-releasing

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Anesthesia Management During Cataract Surgery: Structured Abstract
Regarding pain control during surgery, all of the major classes of techniques reported yielded good or excellent intraoperative pain control. The evidence was strong that retrobulbar and peribulbar techniques produce equivalent pain control during cataract surgery, and there was moderate evidence indicating superiority of pain control using subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's approaches compared with retrobulbar block. There was insufficient evidence to determine whether peribulbar or subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's Anesthesia results in better pain control during surgery. There was strong evidence that retrobulbar block results in less pain during cataract surgery than topical Anesthesia, moderate evidence that peribulbar block results in less pain during cataract surgery than topical Anesthesia, and weak evidence that subconjunctival/ sub-Tenon's block produces better pain control than topical Anesthesia during cataract surgery.

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Search of: "Anesthesia" - List Results - ClinicalTrials.gov
Anesthesia Recovery Period; Delirium, Dementia, Cognitive Disorders; Neurobehavioural Manifestation; Mental Competency

Anesthesia & Euthanasia
The effects of crude extract, pure extract, aqueous fraction of pure extract and lipid fraction of pure extract of air-dried leaves of Erythrophleum suaveolens as anesthetic on African sharptooth, Clarias gariepinus , and the African vundu catfish, Heterobranchus longifilis , fingerlings were studied. They were exposed to various doses of the extracts in tanks. The time for each fish to reach Anesthesia were recorded. The two clariids were anesthetized in up to 3.5 g/ L crude extract and recovered in the fresh water. Soaking the leaves for 24 hours or 48 hours produced no significant difference (P > 0.05) in the time to reach Anesthesia for the African vundu catfish. These fingerlings reached Anesthesia in significantly shorter time (P < 0.05) (24.5 minutes at 2.4 g/ L concentration) in the pure unseparated extract than in the crude extract (70.5 minutes at 2.4 g/ L concentration). All fingerlings exposed to 4 g/ L extracts did not recover. Those exposed to less than 3.5 g/ L of plant material were anesthetized and recovered only to die later within 24 hours. The time to reach Anesthesia decreased with an increase in concentration of the plant extract. Of the two fractions, only the lipid fraction had anesthetizing effect on fish. It, however, took longer to produce the effect than the unseparated pure extract. The aqueous fraction of the pure extract and the control produced no observable anesthetic effects on the fish within 180 minutes. This suggests that the anesthetizing active ingredient resided in the lipid fraction but some factor in the aqueous layer was necessary to quicken its action. Similar results were got with the sharptooth catfish. Since the fingerlings died after recovering from Anesthesia it was concluded that the safety margin of E. suaveolens for fingerlings was very narrow at the concentrations used. It is, therefore, not recommended for use on the fingerlings of the clariid catfishes.

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