FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE CORTICAL NEURONAL NETWORK OF CONSCIOUS AND ANESTHETIZED ANIMALS Jeannette A. Vizuete Marquette University, 2012 General anesthesia consists of amnesia, analgesia, areflexia and unconsciousness. How anesthetics suppress consciousness has been a mystery for more than one and a half centuries. The overall goal of my research has been to determine the neural correlates...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Endoscopic third ventriculostomy is becoming routine among neurosurgical pediatric procedures. However, reports on anesthesia for children undergoing such procedures are rare. The aim of this series of cases was to demonstrate the precautions that should be taken and efficacy of the method used. CASE REPORT Thirty-eight children younger than 2 years, who underwent ne...

Introduction: Malignant hyperthermia (MH) or hyperpyrexia is a pharmacogenetic syndrome of skeletal muscles caused by volatile anesthetics such as halothane and depolarized muscle relaxant suxamethonium. The prevalence MH in Islamabad has not been explored.
 Methodology: This was retrospective study on the severity anesthetized patients with inhalational Clinical data from previous years, ...

Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the COVID-19 has spread globally, prompting world health organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic. As of January 2, 2021, about 82,579,768 laboratory-confirmed cases had been reported WHO with 1,818,849 deaths (https://covid19.who.int). pandemic severely impacted care systems around world, resulting in vast numbe...