The Practice of Balanced Anesthesia

Balanced Anesthesia in Horses

Introduction The phrase “balanced anesthesia” originated from the coadministration of drugs to produce an “ideal” anesthetic state. Today the ideal anesthetic state implies adequate hypnosis, analgesia, muscle relaxation, and relief from stress. The last of these attributes, relief from stress, has been the focus of several investigations conducted in horses in order to determine the magnitude ...

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

Inhalation versus balanced anesthesia in pediatric patients.

Materials and methods This retrospective study compared the results of anesthesia in patients who underwent inguinal herniorrhaphy using two different methods: inhalation anesthesia and balanced anesthesia. For the purposes of this study, inhalation anesthesia refers to an anesthetic technique in which the primary anesthetic is introduced to the bloodstream via the lungs rather than by injectio...

Anesthesia--it's finally the practice of medicine.

Intermittent hypoxia and the practice of anesthesia.

Intermittent hypoxia, a powerful and unique stimulus, leads to physiologic changes that are distinct from those associated with either single or continuous hypoxic exposure. There is an accumulating body of evidence that the neurocognitive, inflammatory and cardiovascular symptoms that characterize the syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea are linked to the stimulus of intermittent hypoxia. In ad...