BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected the provision of health-care services in hospitals around world, including bringing challenges to those who perform surgical procedures. Multidepartment data analysis will reflect pandemic’s impact and managing cases various surgery departments. AIM: This study aims assess COVID-19 lockdowns on carried out eight ...

Tumor progression during end-of-life care can lead to significant pain, which at times may be refractory to routine analgesic techniques. Although regional anesthesia is commonly used for postoperative pain care, there is limited experience with its use during home hospice care. We present a 24-year-old male with end-stage metastatic osteosarcoma who required anesthetic care for a right-sided a...

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) provide surgical care for patients not requiring hospital admission for their postoperative care. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a disease process affecting every phase of anesthesia care delivery. The potential complications of OSAS and anesthesia care have been well documented in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases. Patients ...

I N this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Ueda et al. report two cases in which point-of-care ultrasonography led to the rapid intraoperative diagnosis of pneumothorax. In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the utilization of ultrasound for real-time guidance of clinical decision-making and procedures. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the benefits of this change in practice. The ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced neurosurgeons to adapt in the face of an unforeseen crisis, including reevaluating important aspect neurosurgical practice: surgical infection control and prevention. Before COVID-19, site infections (SSI) remained a costly burdensome issue within neurosurgery medical field at-large. Furthermore, as options for linking payment quality care mandatory reporting SS...

The occurrence of postoperative pulmonary complications is strongly associated with increased hospital mortality and prolonged postoperative hospital stays. Although protective lung ventilation is commonly used in the intensive care unit, low tidal volume ventilation in the operating room is not a routine strategy. Low tidal volume ventilation, moderate positive end-expiratory pressure, and rep...

Thirty-four intensive care patients who received elective tracheostomies were studied to determine the incidence and nature of complications associated with tracheostomies. Indication for tracheostomy was long-term ventilation. Adverse consequences occurred in 47% of the patients. The most frequent problem was pneumonia. There were no intraoperative complications. Two deaths occurred due to del...

The Intraoperative MRI is of great importance in the surgical removal of gliomas or cranial base tumors. However, the sole use of a intraoperative MRI is problematic, so that a dual system has been developed to optimize the utilization of the equipment, which can be used both for neurosurgical patients and for outpatient or stationary Patients. Within the framework of the new head Center at the...