Bulking therapy for the minimally invasive treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) may be offered to women with urodynamic SUI, wishing to avoid the complications associated with more invasive surgery, on the basis of low operative morbidity and low longterm success rates. These bulking agents may be injected by a retrograde or antegrade technique in the periurethral tissue around the bl...

Laparoscopic surgery is a technique that today offers numerous advantages, being a less invasive allows faster recovery with a lower rate of morbidity and mortality. However, the use of the pneumoperitoneum interfere with the anesthetic, forcing the anesthesiologist to use anesthetic techniques that not only provide optimal surgical conditions but a wide patient safety and should minimize the r...

Myasthenia gravis, a disorder of neuromuscular transmission, presents a unique challenge to the perioperative anesthetic management of morbidly obese patients. This report describes the case of a 27-year-old morbidly obese woman with a past medical history significant for myasthenia gravis and fatty liver disease undergoing bariatric surgery. Anesthesia was induced with intravenous agents and m...

Regardless of the setting, the goals of anesthesia remain the same: achieving reversible unconsciousness, immobility, muscle relaxation, amnesia, and analgesia while preserving cardiopulmonary function. However, providing optimal anesthetic care in the high-volume sterilization clinic is often challenging due to a variety of factors, including high caseload, limited time for physical examinatio...

BACKGROUND In light of the growing number of people with dementia and age-related cataract, as well as changing anesthetic practices for cataract surgery, this study aimed to explore the experiences of cataract surgeons in managing patients with dementia and making anesthetic decisions. METHODS This was a qualitative study using semistructured interviews with senior cataract surgeons from two...

Despite great advancements in the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), outcomes following SAH rupture have remained relatively unchanged. In addition, little data exists to guide the anesthetic management of intraoperative aneurysm rupture (IAR), though intraoperative management may have a significant effect on overall neurological outcomes. This review highlights the various...

The mechanisms of general anesthesia in the central nervous system are finally yielding to molecular examination. As a result of research during the past several decades, a group of ligand-gated ion channels have emerged as plausible targets for general anesthetics. Molecular biology techniques have greatly accelerated attempts to classify ligand-gated ion channel sensitivity to general anesthe...