Wilhelm Behringer, Bernd W Böttiger, Daniele G Biasucci, Athanasios Chalkias, Jim Connolly, Christoph Dodt, Abdo Khoury, Said Laribi, Robert Leach, Giuseppe Ristagno
{"title":"Reply to Andersen et al .: a commentary on the recent European Society for Emergency Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care guidelines on temperature control after cardiac arrest.","authors":"Wilhelm Behringer, Bernd W Böttiger, Daniele G Biasucci, Athanasios Chalkias, Jim Connolly, Christoph Dodt, Abdo Khoury, Said Laribi, Robert Leach, Giuseppe Ristagno","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002015","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141283365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jung-Bin Park, Pyoyoon Kang, Sang-Hwan Ji, Young-Eun Jang, Ji-Hyun Lee, Jin-Tae Kim, Hee-Soo Kim, Eun-Hee Kim
{"title":"Atmospheric particulate matter and hypoxaemia in Korean children receiving general anaesthesia: A retrospective analysis.","authors":"Jung-Bin Park, Pyoyoon Kang, Sang-Hwan Ji, Young-Eun Jang, Ji-Hyun Lee, Jin-Tae Kim, Hee-Soo Kim, Eun-Hee Kim","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002027","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The association between the concentration of atmospheric particulate matter on the day of surgery and the occurrence of intra-operative hypoxaemia in children receiving general anaesthesia is unclear.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association between the exposure to particulate matter on the day of surgery and the occurrence of intra-operative hypoxaemia, defined as a pulse oximetry oxygen saturation of less than 90% for more than 1 min, in children.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Retrospective study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Single-centre.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Children aged 18 years or younger who received general anaesthesia between January 2019 and October 2020.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Information on daily levels of particulate matter with a diameter 10 μm or less and 2.5 μm or less measured within a neighbourhood corresponding to the area defined by the hospital's zip code was obtained from publicly available air-quality data.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>The primary outcome was intra-operative hypoxaemia, defined as a pulse oximetry oxygen saturation of less than 90% lasting for more than 1 min, manually verified by anaesthesiologists using vital sign registry data extracted at 2 s intervals.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the patients finally analysed, 3.85% (489/13 175) experienced intra-operative hypoxaemia. Higher levels of particulate matter 10 μm or less in diameter (≥81 μg m -3 , 17/275, 6.2%) were associated with an increased occurrence of intra-operative hypoxaemia compared with lower particulate matter concentrations [<81 μg m -3 , 472/12 900, 3.7%; adjusted odds ratio, 1.71; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.04 to 2.83; P = 0.035].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The level of particulate matter on the day of surgery pose a risk of intra-operative hypoxaemia in children receiving general anaesthesia. If the concentrations of particulate matter 10 μm or less in diameter on the day of surgery are high, children receiving general anaesthesia should be managed with increased caution.</p>","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141330567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Urvi Sanganee, Karen Jansen, Nuala Lucas, Marc Van de Velde
{"title":"The role of supraglottic airway devices for caesarean section under general anaesthesia. A scoping literature review with a proposed algorithm for the appropriate use of supraglottic airway devices for caesarean sections.","authors":"Urvi Sanganee, Karen Jansen, Nuala Lucas, Marc Van de Velde","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002024","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review aims to assess the published evidence on airway management with a supraglottic airway device (SGA) for general anaesthesia in patients requiring a caesarean section. Physiological changes during pregnancy can make airway management in parturients challenging. At the same time, pregnant patients are at risk of pulmonary aspiration due to hormonal and mechanical alterations. The standard airway management for parturients undergoing caesarean section is rapid sequence induction followed by tracheal intubation. Evidence exists that using second-generation SGA devices is well tolerated and effective in selected patients. In this review, we provide an overview of the existing evidence and provide an algorithm to make an evidence-based clinical decision on the use of SGA devices. An online literature search was performed in Medline, Embase, PubMed, Emcare, Cochrane Library and CINAHL. The search terms used were 'supraglottic airway', 'supraglottic airway device', 'supraglottic airway management', 'supraglottic tube', 'i-gel', laryngeal mask', 'laryngeal mask airway', 'LMA', 'SGA', 'Proseal', 'Supreme', 'obstetric surgery', 'obstetric operation', 'general anaesthesia', 'caesarean' or 'caesarean section', 'abdominal delivery'. Full-text articles in English, Dutch and French were included. Case reports and studies in which the surgery was not a caesarean section were excluded. The initial search yielded 815 results. Following screening, deduplication and removal of publications that were unrelated to the topic or did not fit the inclusion criteria, 13 manuscripts were included in our analysis. A total of 7722 patients were described in the articles included. In the majority of manuscripts, second-generation SGA devices were used. There were seven cases of failed insertion and a need for conversion to tracheal intubation; first-generation SGA devices were used in these cases. There were no cases of pulmonary aspiration, and only one case of gastric regurgitation was described. Growing evidence suggests that the use of second-generation SGA devices might be well tolerated as the primary method for securing the airway for caesarean sections requiring general anaesthesia, in selected patients with a low risk for aspiration and difficult intubation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141426529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carolina S Romero, Peter Kranke, Stefan De Hert, Idit Matot, Arash Afshari
{"title":"Do virtual meetings increase agreement while developing guidelines?: A cross-sectional study among guideline authors.","authors":"Carolina S Romero, Peter Kranke, Stefan De Hert, Idit Matot, Arash Afshari","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002031","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141497464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriana Carbó, Daniel Tresandí, Cristina Tril, Diego Fernández-Rodríguez, Enrique Carrero
{"title":"Usefulness of a virtual reality educational program for reducing preoperative anxiety in children: A randomised, single-centre clinical trial.","authors":"Adriana Carbó, Daniel Tresandí, Cristina Tril, Diego Fernández-Rodríguez, Enrique Carrero","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002032","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Preoperative anxiety (PA) is common in children and has detrimental effects on surgical outcome. Strategies based on virtual reality (VR) have recently been introduced to address this problem.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study evaluated the usefulness of a virtual reality educational program (VREP) for reducing preoperative anxiety in elective low-complexity paediatric surgery.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Randomised clinical trial.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Single tertiary centre in Barcelona, Spain. Between January 2019 and June 2022.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Children aged 3-13 years of age, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I-II, scheduled for elective low-complexity surgery were enrolled in the study.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Children were randomised into a control group (received oral/written information about the anaesthetic-surgical process, and patients and their parents remained in a playroom waiting for the surgery) or VREP (viewed a VR-based educational video on the surgical process, 7-10 days prior to surgery) using the MATLAB application.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measure: </strong>PA using the modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) during separation from parents.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 241 children aged 3-12 years of age were studied (120 patients with VREP and 121 controls). Randomisation eliminated the differences between the groups, except for a greater male presence in the VREP group (83.3% vs. 71.1%; P = 0.023). The mYPAS yielded was lower in the VREP group (29.2% vs. 83.5%; P < 0.001). Sex did not influence VREP-mediated decrease in PA ( P < 0.001). In turn, VREP patients were more cooperative (Induction Compliance Checklist [ICC] score 0 points vs. 2 points; P < 0.001) during anaesthesia induction, presented less delirium (Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium [PAED] score 1 point vs. 3 points; P = 0.001) on leaving the recovery room, and experienced less pain upon arrival in the hospital ward (Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale: 0-points vs. 1 point; P < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The VREP-based prevention strategy reduced preoperative anxiety in children undergoing elective low-complexity surgery.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>NCT03578393.</p>","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141445951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun-Young Park, Jihion Yu, Chan-Sik Kim, Ji-Won Baek, Taeho Mun, Young-Kug Kim
{"title":"Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and catheter-related bladder discomfort following transurethral resection of bladder tumour: A randomised controlled trial.","authors":"Jun-Young Park, Jihion Yu, Chan-Sik Kim, Ji-Won Baek, Taeho Mun, Young-Kug Kim","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0000000000002050","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) is problematic in patients with a urinary catheter. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a non-invasive analgesic modality used to relieve various types of pain.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We evaluated the effect of TENS on CRBD after transurethral resection of bladder tumours (TURBT).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A randomised controlled trial.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>A large university tertiary hospital, from October 2022 to March 2023.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Patients requiring urinary catheterisation after TURBT.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>In this randomised controlled trial, patients were randomly allocated to the TENS (n = 56) or control (n = 56) groups. CRBD manifests as a burning sensation with an urge to void or discomfort in the suprapubic area. Moderate to severe CRBD was defined as patients self-reporting CRBD symptoms with or without behavioural response, including attempts to remove the urinary catheter, intense verbal reactions, and flailing limbs. TENS was performed from the end of surgery to 1 h postoperatively.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measure: </strong>The primary endpoint was considered moderate to severe CRBD immediately postoperatively. Secondary endpoints included moderate to severe CRBD at 1, 2 and 6 h postoperatively. Additionally, postoperative pain, patient satisfaction, and TENS-related adverse effects were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Moderate to severe CRBD immediately postoperatively was significantly less frequent in the TENS group than in the control group: 10 (17.9%) vs. 34 (60.7%); P < 0.001; relative risk (95% CI) = 0.294 (0.161 to 0.536); absolute risk reduction = 0.43; number needed to treat = 2.3. Moderate to severe CRBD differed between the two groups at 1 h postoperatively: 1 (1.8%) vs. 16 (28.6%); P < 0.001; relative risk = 0.06 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.46); absolute risk reduction = 0.27; number needed to treat = 3.7. The TENS group exhibited a significantly lower score for postoperative pain at 1 h (1.8 ± 0.6 vs. 2.2 ± 0.4; P < 0.001, mean difference (95% CI) = 0.4 (0.2 to 0.6) and a higher score for patient satisfaction, 5.0 (4.0 to 6.0) vs. 3.0 (3.0 to 4.0); P < 0.001; median difference (95% CI) = 2.0 (1.0 to 2.0).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>TENS reduced moderate to severe CRBD, decreased postoperative pain, and increased patient satisfaction after TURBT.</p><p><strong>Clinical trial registry: </strong>Clinical Research Information Service (KCT0007450).</p><p><strong>Visual abstract: </strong>http://links.lww.com/EJA/B12.</p>","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141975399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camille Bourgeois, Lukas Oyaert, Marc Van de Velde, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Stephan M Freys, Axel R Sauter, Girish P Joshi, Geertrui Dewinter
{"title":"Pain management after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A systematic review and procedure-specific postoperative pain management (PROSPECT) recommendations.","authors":"Camille Bourgeois, Lukas Oyaert, Marc Van de Velde, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Stephan M Freys, Axel R Sauter, Girish P Joshi, Geertrui Dewinter","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002047","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laparoscopic cholecystectomy can be associated with significant postoperative pain that is difficult to treat. We aimed to evaluate the available literature and develop updated recommendations for optimal pain management after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A systematic review was performed using the procedure-specific postoperative pain management (PROSPECT) methodology. Randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews published in the English language from August 2017 to December 2022 assessing postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy using analgesic, anaesthetic or surgical interventions were identified from MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane Databases. From 589 full text articles, 157 randomised controlled trials and 31 systematic reviews met the inclusion criteria. Paracetamol combined with NSAIDs or cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors should be given either pre-operatively or intra-operatively, unless contraindicated. In addition, intra-operative intravenous (i.v.) dexamethasone, port-site wound infiltration or intraperitoneal local anaesthetic instillation are recommended, with opioids used for rescue analgesia. As a second-line regional technique, the erector spinae plane block or transversus abdominis plane block may be reserved for patients with a heightened risk of postoperative pain. Three-port laparoscopy, a low-pressure pneumoperitoneum, umbilical port extraction, active aspiration of the pneumoperitoneum and saline irrigation are recommended technical aspects of the operative procedure. The following interventions are not recommended due to limited or no evidence on improved pain scores: single port or mini-port techniques, routine drainage, low flow insufflation, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), infra-umbilical incision, i.v. clonidine, nefopam and regional techniques such as quadratus lumborum block or rectus sheath block. Several interventions provided better pain scores but are not recommended due to risk of side effects: spinal or epidural anaesthesia, gabapentinoids, i.v. lidocaine, i.v. ketamine and i.v. dexmedetomidine.</p>","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141916412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carolina S Romero, Arash Afshari, Roberta Südy, Charles Marc Samama
{"title":"European guidelines on peri-operative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: first update.: Introductory chapter.","authors":"Carolina S Romero, Arash Afshari, Roberta Südy, Charles Marc Samama","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002003","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141491417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie En-Asseri, D Nuala Lucas, Jacky Nizard, Anne-Sophie Bouthors
{"title":"European guidelines on peri-operative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: first update.: Chapter 9: Surgery during pregnancy and the immediate postpartum period.","authors":"Marie En-Asseri, D Nuala Lucas, Jacky Nizard, Anne-Sophie Bouthors","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002028","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141491415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoffer Calov Jørgensen, Juan Llau, Jean-Yves Jenny, Pierre Albaladejo
{"title":"European guidelines on peri-operative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: first update.: Chapter 3: Day surgery and fast-track surgery.","authors":"Christoffer Calov Jørgensen, Juan Llau, Jean-Yves Jenny, Pierre Albaladejo","doi":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002010","DOIUrl":"10.1097/EJA.0000000000002010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11920,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Anaesthesiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141491410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}