BACKGROUND Despite the increasing use of regional anesthesia, specific recommendations regarding the type of procedures to be included in residency training programs are not currently available. We aimed to determine the nerve block techniques that practicing Chilean anesthesiologists perceived as essential to master during residency training. METHODS After institutional ethics committee appr...

  Background: Factor VII concentrates are used in patients with congenital or acquired factor VII deficiency or treatment of hemophilia patients with inhibitors. In this research, immunoaffinity chromatography was used to purify factor VII from prothrombin complex (Prothrombin-Proconvertin-Stuart Factor-Antihemophilic Factor B or PPSB) which contains coagulation factors II, VII, IX and X. The a...

Over 100 years ago August Bier performed the first recorded spinal anaesthetic; and complications from the use of regional anaesthesia have been described over this same period of time. Bier also being the first to describe a ‘spinal’ or ‘post dural-puncture headache’ [1]. In Great Britain a number of high profile legal cases in the 1950s concerning major complications of neuraxial techniques l...

The role adenosine plays in evoking the exercise pressor reflex in humans remains controversial. We hypothesized that localized forearm adenosine receptor blockade would attenuate muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) responses to fatiguing handgrip exercise in humans. Blood pressure (Finometer), heart rate, and MSNA from the peroneal nerve were assessed in 11 healthy young volunteers during...

Epidural anaesthetics are another group of drugs implicated in causing arachnoiditis. Vandermeulen ( [i] ) includes arachnoiditis as a "mishap"... "solely due to ... epidural anaesthesia". Haisa et al ( [ii] ) state that lumbar adhesive arachnoiditis should be considered for differential diagnosis of back and leg pain after epidural anaesthesia. Furthermore, epidural anaesth...

Bier spots (BS) were first described in 1898 by Bier and detailed research by Lewis in 1927 [1,2]. There is no certain information about prevalence [2]. It is usually seen in people 20 to 40 years old young adults and is more common in women than man. Pediatric cases were reported [2]. BS are also called physiologic anemic macules, angiospastic macules, exaggerated physiologic speckled mottling...

Background: Recurrent complex regional pain syndrome I is not rare in the pediatric population. The authors conducted this study to evaluate the efficacy of continuous peripheral nerve blocks with elastomeric disposable pumps associated with initial Bier blocks for the treatment of recurrent complex regional pain syndrome I in children. Methods: After parental informed consent, 13 children who ...