To further explore controversies surrounding parental presence and children’s anxiety during anesthesia induction, Caldwell-Andrews et al. devised and tested a measure to examine parents’ motivation to be present during the induction process: Motivation for Parental Presence during Induction of Anesthesia (MPPIA). The team then used the newly created measure to determine if the level of parent ...

The opinions expressed in this document represent those of the authors. The purpose of the document is to educate physicians and others about anesthetic issues pertinent to the elderly population. The document specifically does not purport to provide practice guidelines. The text is not intended to be comprehensive and any apparent anesthetic management suggestions will not apply to all patient...

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should follow the title page. It should be structured with background, methods, results and conclusion. The Middle East of Anesthesiology publishes original work in the fields of anesthesiology, intensive care, pain, and emergency medicine. This includes clinical or laboratory investigations, review articles, case reports and letters to the Editor. Submission of manuscripts: The Middle East Jou...

1Cardiosurgical Intensive Care Unit, City Hospital No. 1, Suvorov Street 1, Arkhangelsk 163001, Russia 2Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Northern State Medical University, Troitsky Avenue 51, Arkhangelsk 163000, Russia 3Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway 4Department of Clinical Medicine (Anesthesiology), Faculty of Medicine...

a Istanbul Aydın University, Vocational School of Health Services, Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul, Turkey b University of Beykent, School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey c Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Trabzon, Turkey d Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Histolog...

Jiang Zhu, Mario J. Rebecchi, Qiang Wang, Peter S. A. Glass, Peter R. Brink, and Lixin Liu Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York; Department of Anesthesiology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University...

1Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA 2Chief, Department of Resuscitative Medicine, UWH-A, Division of Military Casualty Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA 3Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA 4...

also inspiring educators, able to teach patients and their families, physician peers, and the vast array of paraprofessional hospital staff about anesthesiology. As individuals who champion anesthesia patient care, clinician practitioners are astute observers of much that we do not understand. Dr. Serlin, sit on the anesthesiology stool by asking the questions about what we do not understand ab...