Corresponding author: Kyung-Don Hahm, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1, Pungnap 2-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-5979, Fax: 82-2-3010-6790, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ...

Corresponding author: Kwang Ho Lee, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, 162, Ilsan-dong, Wonju 220-701, Korea. Tel: 82-33-741-1536, Fax: 82-33-742-8198, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licens...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Polymyositis is a subacute inflammatory myopathy presenting as progressive and often symmetric muscle weakness. It is believed that the patients with polymyositis are sensitive to nondepolarizing muscle relaxants. The major concerns for the anesthesiologist are delayed recovery from muscle relaxation, aspiration pneumonitis, arrhythmias and cardi...

Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per unit of time. Heart rate is one of the important physiological signals used by medical professionals to assist in the diagnosis and tracking of patients medical conditions. With every heartbeat a blood pressure pulse travels from the heart to the other body parts. Typically, it is referred as Blood Volume Pressure (BVP) or cardiac pulse or only pulse. ...

The protist life cycle is certainly much more than a simple sequence of trophic and non-trophic stages (cysts), and trophic cells (trophozoites) do not divide categorically into two identical daughter cells. The pathogenic amoebae Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba invadens exhibit complex life cycles including stem cells and cell lines following various biological tasks such as virulence and ...

BACKGROUND Spinal analgesia, mediated by opioid receptors, requires only a fraction of the opioid dose that is needed systemically. By infusing a small amount of opioid into the cerebrospinal fluid in close proximity to the receptor sites in the spinal cord, profound analgesia may be achieved while sparing some of the side effects due to systemic opioids. Intraspinal drug delivery (IDD) has bee...

P effusion is a common medical problem and may occur due to various causes.1 Diagnostic investigations include thoracentesis, closed pleural biopsy, thoracoscopy (TC), video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), and thoracotomy.2 Thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that allows visualization of the pleural space and intrathoracic structures, allows obtaining pleural biopsies under direct ...

Sugammadex has proven to be highly effective for the reversal of moderate or deep neuro¬muscular blockade induced by rocuronium or vecuronium. We present a case where optimal conditions for tracheal intubation were attained using rocuronium (0.5 mg kg-1) 20 minutes (min) after sugammadex had been given. A 59-yr-old female patient, ASA II was scheduled for elective total thyroidectomy. Anesthesi...

Background The clinical and radiological aspects of hypoxic brain injury without ischemia are not well characterized. There is a vast spectrum of clinical manifestations observed in patients that recover from brain hypoxia, including a subset demonstrating persistent motor system disturbances. Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies have shown abnormalities in basal ganglia, cerebral and...

Background: In patients presenting with acute liver failure (ALF) prediction of prognosis is vital to determine the need of transplantation. Based on the evidence that plasma disappearance rate of indocyanine green (ICG-PDR) correlates with liver cell function, we evaluated the ability of ICG-PDR measured by pulse dye densitometry to predict outcome in patients with acute liver failure. Methods...