50 Studies Every Anesthesiologist Should Know

Foreword from the Series Editor Preface Acknowledgments Section 1: General Anesthesiology 1. Video vs. Direct Laryngoscopy: A Randomized Clinical Trial 2. Management of the Difficult Airway: A Closed Claims Analysis 3. Predictive Factors of Difficult and Impossible Mask Ventilation 4. Perioperative Normothermia and Incidence of Cardiac Events 5. Perioperative Normothermia, Incidence of Surgical-Wound Infection and Length of Hospitalization 6. Preventable Anesthesia Mishaps 7. Deliberate Increase of Oxygen Delivery in the Perioperative Period 8. Blood Sugar Control in Type Two Diabetes

Section 2: Cardiac Anesthesia 9. Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization 10. Rate Control Vs. Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibriallation 11. Early Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter and Outcomes in Patients with Shock and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial 12. Statins and Perioperative Cardiac Complications 13. A Survey of Transesophageal Echocardiography 14. Statins and Perioperative Cardiac Complications 15. Effects of Extended-Release Metoprolol Succinate in Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery (POISE Trial): A Randomized Controlled Trial

Section 3: Neuroanesthesia 16. Adverse Cerebral Outcomes After Coronary Bypass Surgery 17. Long-term Cognitive Impairment after Critical Illness 18. Cerebral Perfusion Pressure

Section 4: Critical Care 19. An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU 20. Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock 21. Intensive Insulin Therapy and Pentastarch Resuscitation in Sepsis 22. Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care TRICC 23. Effects of Intravenous Fluid Restriction on Postoperative Complications 24. The Saline versus Albumin Fluid Evaluation (SAFE) Study

Section 5: Perioperative Medicine 25. Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness in High-Risk Surgical Patients 26. Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events 27. Surgical Safety Checklist 28. Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting 29. Postoperative Oxygen Desaturation: A Comparison of Regional Anesthesia vs. Continuous Administration of Opioids 30. Surgical Site Infections Following Ambulatory Surgery Procedures 31. Care Coordination 32. Pulmonary Aspiration: Clinical Significance in the Perioperative Period 33. Postoperative Pain Experience

Section 6: Pain Anesthesiology 34. An fMRI-Based Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain 35. Clinical Importance of Changes on a Numerical Pain Rating Scale 36. Post-injury Pain Hypersensitivity and NMDA Receptor Antagonists 37. Randomized Trial of Oral Morphine for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain 38. Epidural Glucocorticoid Injections for Spinal Stenosis 39. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People Without Back Pain 40. Surgery vs. Rehab for Chronic Lower Back Pain 41. Preoperative Multimodal Analgesia for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Section 7: Regional Anesthesiology 42. Neuraxial Anesthesia and Postoperative Mortality and Morbidity 43. Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia in High-Risk Patients Undergoing Major Surgery 44. Nerve Stimulator and Multiple Injection Technique for Upper and Lower Limb Blockade

Section 8: Obstetric Anesthesiology 45. Neuraxial Analgesia Given Early in Labor 46. Postdural Puncture Headache in Obstetrics: A Meta-analysis

Section 9: Pediatric Anesthesiology 47. Parental Presence During Induction versus Sedative Premedication 48. Perioperative Pediatric Morbidity and Mortality 49. CRIES: A Neonatal Postoperative Pain Measurement Score 50. Emergence Agitation After Sevoflurane Versus Propofol in Pediatrics

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