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Home-based exercise prehabilitation to improve disease-free survival and return to intended oncologic treatment after cancer surgery in older adults with frailty: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial
Home-based exercise prehabilitation to improve disease-free survival and return to intended oncologic treatment after cancer surgery in older adults with frailty: a secondary analysis of a randomized trial
Improving survivorship for patients with cancer and frailty is a priority. We aimed to estimate whether exercise prehabili...
Pediatric Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and peripheral nerve blocks: a retrospective cohort study of 25 patients
Pediatric Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and peripheral nerve blocks: a retrospective cohort study of 25 patients
Charcot–Marie–Tooth (CMT) disease is an inherited neurologic disorder characterized by progressive peripheral ...
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with Fontan circulation
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with Fontan circulation
Fontan circulation is created when a baby is born with only one functioning cardiac ventricle. A series of surgeries are p...
Maintenance infusion rate of oxytocin after initial 1-IU bolus for elective Cesarean delivery: a dose-finding study
Maintenance infusion rate of oxytocin after initial 1-IU bolus for elective Cesarean delivery: a dose-finding study
The purpose of our study was to determine the minimum effective dose of oxytocin maintenance infusion required to maintain...
External oblique intercostal catheters for liver transplantation surgery: a quality improvement project
External oblique intercostal catheters for liver transplantation surgery: a quality improvement project
Disclosures None. Funding statement None. ...
Comparison of the ClearSight™ finger cuff monitor versus invasive arterial blood pressure measurement in elective cardiac surgery patients: a prospective observational study
Comparison of the ClearSight™ finger cuff monitor versus invasive arterial blood pressure measurement in elective cardiac surgery patients: a prospective observational study
To determine the acceptability of the ClearSight™ system (Edwards Lifesciences Corp., Irvine, CA, USA) for continuou...
Characterizing usual-care physical rehabilitation in Canadian intensive care unit patients: a secondary analysis of the Canadian multicentre Critical Care Cycling to Improve Lower Extremity Strength pilot randomized controlled trial
Characterizing usual-care physical rehabilitation in Canadian intensive care unit patients: a secondary analysis of the Canadian multicentre Critical Care Cycling to Improve Lower Extremity Strength pilot randomized controlled trial
Physical rehabilitation (PR) in the intensive care unit (ICU) may improve outcomes for survivors but clinical trial result...
Manual angulation of the Arndt endobronchial blocker to improve the ease of lung isolation
Manual angulation of the Arndt endobronchial blocker to improve the ease of lung isolation
Disclosures None. Funding statement Dr. Zo...
Initial clinical experience may influence tracheal intubation success rates with indirect laryngoscopy among novice operators
Initial clinical experience may influence tracheal intubation success rates with indirect laryngoscopy among novice operators
Disclosures The authors declare no conflicts of interest. ...
Does heart rate variability using the Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation index identify postsurgical pain levels and emergence delirium in toddlers? A prospective observational study
Does heart rate variability using the Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation index identify postsurgical pain levels and emergence delirium in toddlers? A prospective observational study
Children recovering from anesthesia commonly experience early postoperative negative behaviour, caused by pain and emergen...
Development and implementation of local pediatric anesthesia performance metrics at a Canadian children’s hospital: a technical report
Development and implementation of local pediatric anesthesia performance metrics at a Canadian children’s hospital: a technical report
In this project, we sought to develop and implement pediatric anesthesia metrics into electronic health records (EHR) in a...
Anterior spinal cord syndrome from a spinal epidural hematoma following removal of an epidural catheter
Anterior spinal cord syndrome from a spinal epidural hematoma following removal of an epidural catheter
Spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) is a rare yet significant complication associated with neuraxial anesthesia. Here, we prese...
Readability and quality assessment of online patient education materials for spinal and epidural anesthesia
Readability and quality assessment of online patient education materials for spinal and epidural anesthesia
Guidelines recommend that health-related information for patients should be written at or below the sixth-grade level. We ...
Novel inhaled pulmonary vasodilators in adult cardiac surgery: a scoping review
Novel inhaled pulmonary vasodilators in adult cardiac surgery: a scoping review
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common cause of postoperative mortality in cardiac surgery that is commonly treated with ...
Perioperative clinical practice recommendations for pediatric tonsillectomy: a systematic review
Perioperative clinical practice recommendations for pediatric tonsillectomy: a systematic review
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed in children. Since most clinical practice guidelines...
Perioperative quality indicators specific to the practice of anesthesia in noncardiac surgery: an umbrella review
Perioperative quality indicators specific to the practice of anesthesia in noncardiac surgery: an umbrella review
Improvement in delivery of perioperative care depends on the ability to measure outcomes that can direct meaningful change...
Effect of using smaller blood volume tubes and closed blood collection devices on total blood loss in patients undergoing major cardiac and vascular surgery
Effect of using smaller blood volume tubes and closed blood collection devices on total blood loss in patients undergoing major cardiac and vascular surgery
Diagnostic laboratory tests are an integral part of managing hospitalized patients. In particular, patients in the intensi...
Intraoperative cloudy urine due to propofol-induced crystallization of uric acid
Intraoperative cloudy urine due to propofol-induced crystallization of uric acid
Disclosures All authors declare no conflicts of interest. Funding ...
A comparative evaluation of fibreoptic bronchoscopy versus C-MAC® D-BLADE-guided videolaryngoscopy for nasotracheal intubation under general anesthesia in oropharyngeal carcinoma surgery patients
A comparative evaluation of fibreoptic bronchoscopy versus C-MAC® D-BLADE-guided videolaryngoscopy for nasotracheal intubation under general anesthesia in oropharyngeal carcinoma surgery patients
Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is required for surgery in oropharyngeal (OP) carcinoma patients, but it may be challenging ...
Exposure levels and target attainment of piperacillin/tazobactam in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a prospective observational study
Exposure levels and target attainment of piperacillin/tazobactam in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a prospective observational study
The objective of this study was to evaluate the exposure and the pharmacodynamic target attainment of piperacillin/tazobac...
Parallel intubation technique with the Vie Scope® laryngoscope
Parallel intubation technique with the Vie Scope® laryngoscope
Disclosures The authors received Vie Scope® devices for study purposes from the manufacturer ...
Severe dural ectasia in a pregnant patient with Marfan syndrome
Severe dural ectasia in a pregnant patient with Marfan syndrome
Disclosures None. Funding statement None. ...
Are we closer to determining a gold standard for sensory block testing during labour epidural analgesia?
Are we closer to determining a gold standard for sensory block testing during labour epidural analgesia?
Epidurals provide parturients with a comfortable birthing experience, and the analges...
Perioperative copeptin: predictive value and risk stratification in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery—a prospective observational cohort study
Perioperative copeptin: predictive value and risk stratification in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery—a prospective observational cohort study
Biomarkers can aid in perioperative risk stratification. While preoperative copeptin has been associated with adverse even...
Transesophageal echocardiographic acquisition of the venous excess ultrasound exam—a case series and technical description
Transesophageal echocardiographic acquisition of the venous excess ultrasound exam—a case series and technical description
Obtaining an objective, reproducible, and accurate assessment of volume status is one of the more difficult tasks in the p...
Evolution of airway management in patients with unstable cervical spine trauma: a retrospective cohort study
Evolution of airway management in patients with unstable cervical spine trauma: a retrospective cohort study
Disclosures The authors had no conflict of interest related to this study to declare. ...
Pediatric massive hemorrhage—are we all following similar protocols?
Pediatric massive hemorrhage—are we all following similar protocols?
In Canada in 2015, unintentional injury was the second leading cause of hospitalizati...
Canadian tertiary care pediatric massive hemorrhage protocols: a survey and comprehensive national review
Canadian tertiary care pediatric massive hemorrhage protocols: a survey and comprehensive national review
Hemorrhage is the leading cause of pediatric death in trauma and cardiac arrest during surgery. Adult studies report impro...
Comparing leak pressure of LMA® ProSeal™ versus i-gel® at head rotation: a randomized controlled trial
Comparing leak pressure of LMA® ProSeal™ versus i-gel® at head rotation: a randomized controlled trial
The effect of head rotation on supraglottic airway (SGA) oropharyngeal leak pressure (OPLP) has not been well elucidated. ...
Postoperative anemia in cardiac surgery patients: a narrative review
Postoperative anemia in cardiac surgery patients: a narrative review
Anemia reduces the blood’s ability to carry and deliver oxygen. Following cardiac surgery, anemia is very common and...
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