{"title":"Monitoring epidural local anesthetic action during the postoperative period.","authors":"M J Lema","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6 Suppl","pages":"94-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19919521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New agents to clinical practice: introduction to clinical trials.","authors":"J C Eisenach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6 Suppl","pages":"135-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19919528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future epidural or subarachnoid analgesics: local anesthetics.","authors":"R L Carpenter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6 Suppl","pages":"75-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19919517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost-effectiveness and cost/benefit ratio of acute pain management.","authors":"R L Rauck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6 Suppl","pages":"139-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19919531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saturable in vitro metabolism of articaine by serum esterases. Does it contribute to the persistence of the local anesthetic effect?","authors":"R Oertel, A Berndt, W Kirch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The amide-type local anesthetic articaine is unique in that hydrolysis to articainic acid by serum esterases is its main metabolic pathway. The purpose of the present investigation was to study the concentration dependence of this pathway in vitro.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To unbuffered (pH 8.2) as well as phosphate-buffered (pH 7.4) heated serum samples were added various amounts of articaine in the range 10-300 micrograms/mL. Concentrations of articaine and articainic acid were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography after incubating the samples at 37 degrees C for intervals ranging from 5 minutes to 6 hours after addition of articaine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The in vitro metabolism of articaine was shown to undergo pH-dependent Michaelis-Menten kinetics, indicating saturation at higher substrate concentrations. The Michaelis constant K(m) was determined as 175 micrograms/mL and 22.1 micrograms/mL and the maximum reaction rate Vmax as 2.1 micrograms/mL/min and 0.17 microgram/mL/min at pH 8.2 and pH 7.2, respectively. These results support previous in vivo observations that suggest saturable articaine metabolism, indicated by higher articaine/articainic acid metabolic ratio with higher articaine concentrations in alveolar blood after dental extraction.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Local saturation of the serum esterases may contribute to the advantageous relationship between persistence of the local anesthetic effect and low systemic toxicity caused by the last systemic elimination of articaine (ie, its wide toxic therapeutic ratio).</p>","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6","pages":"576-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19920863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subarachnoid neostigmine does not affect blood pressure or heart rate during bupivacaine spinal anesthesia.","authors":"G R Lauretti, M P Reis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Intraspinal administration of neostigmine has been shown to prevent induction of hypotension in rats by bupivacaine spinal block, and thus to provide greater hemodynamic stability. This study was undertaken to determine whether subarachnoid neostigmine would prevent bupivacaine spinal anesthesia from causing hypotension or bradycardia in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Of 40 patients scheduled for abdominal hysterectomy under spinal anesthesia, 20 were randomly assigned to each of two groups. The control group (CG) received 1.5 mL subarachnoid saline followed by 15 mg (3 mL) of hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5%. The neostigmine group (NG) received 75 micrograms (1.5 mL) of subarachnoid neostigmine followed by 15 mg (3 mL) of hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5%. No preload was given. Hypotension was treated with 4-mg intravenous boluses of ephedrine to keep blood pressure above 75% of the baseline value. The skin body temperature was measured with probes at the suprascapular region and at the foot.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Spinal neostigmine (75 micrograms) failed to prevent bupivacaine-induced hypotension. There was no statistical difference in the incidence of brady-cardia between the groups (NG, 2/20; CG 1/20), although the bradycardia appeared to be qualitatively different, being somewhat delayed in the NG. Spinal neostigmine did not alter the onset or duration of sensory block and did not affect skin body temperature in either anesthetized or unanesthetized sites. The incidence of intraoperative nausea was 20% in the NG and 5% in the CG.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A 75-micrograms subarachnoid neostigmine dose does not affect blood pressure or heart rate during bupivacaine spinal anesthesia.</p>","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6","pages":"586-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19920866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pediatric axillary block with conscious sedation.","authors":"J O Margolis, A K Ross, S M Steele","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 6","pages":"603-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19920874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Regional anesthesiaPub Date : 1996-11-01DOI: 10.1136/RAPM-00115550-199621061-00033
D. Oa
{"title":"Clinical outcome after epidural anesthesia and analgesia in high-risk surgical patients.","authors":"D. Oa","doi":"10.1136/RAPM-00115550-199621061-00033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/RAPM-00115550-199621061-00033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77347,"journal":{"name":"Regional anesthesia","volume":"21 1","pages":"144-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63870150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}