Many patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) will undergo a surgical procedure for correcting the underlying cause of their disease, to deal with the complications of their disease or the treatment of their disease, or to undergo diagnostic procedures which will direct the course of their treatment. The majority of these procedures are performed in the operating theatre, but a small …
The practice of anesthesiology includes provision of care to patients who are critically ill, while critical care medicine has its foundations in perioperative care provided by anesthesiologists, today’s critical care medicine encompasses care beyond traditional intraoperative and routine postoperative care. Critical care medicine includes a wide variety of clinical services provided by the a…
This investigation was designed to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the older and less potent narcotics, morphine and meperidine, with fentanyl and sufentanil as components of balanced anesthesia
We studied 80 healthy ASA I patients (aged 20–52 yr) to determine if fentanyl affects sevoflurane requirements for achieving 50% probability of no movement in response to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation (MAC-TI). Patients were allocated randomly to one of four fentanyl dose groups (0, 1, 2 and 4 g kg–1). Patients in each group received sevoflurane at a pre-selected end-tidal concentra…
We carried out a controlled, randomized, double-blind study to examine the cKccts of intravenous fentanyl ( I or 2 pg kg-') on hemodynamic changes during tracheal extubation and emergence from anesthesia in 60 ASA physical status I or I1 patients undergoing elective gynecological surgery. Anesthesia was maintained with 0.5'?'-1.5% isofluranc and 60Yn nitrous oxide (N,Oj in oxygen. Muscle relaxa…