Anesthetics, Inhalation

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of mivacurium dosage requirements during isoflurane and desflurane anesthesia. 
  • A comparison of the efficacy, safety, and patient satisfaction of ondansetron versus droperidol as antiemetics for elective outpatient surgical procedures. S3A-409 and S3A-410 Study Groups. 
  • A study of anesthetic drug utilization in different age groups. 
  • A survey of inhalational anaesthetic abuse in anaesthesia training programmes. 
  • Absence of direct antioxidant effects from volatile anesthetics in primary mixed neuronal-glial cultures. 
  • Acute and Long-Term Effects of Brief Sevoflurane Anesthesia During the Early Postnatal Period in Rats. 
  • Adenosine-induced flow arrest to facilitate intracranial aneurysm clip ligation: dose-response data and safety profile. 
  • Adjunct Therapies for Refractory Status Asthmaticus in Children. 
  • An evaluation of remifentanil-sevoflurane response surface models in patients emerging from anesthesia: model improvement using effect-site sevoflurane concentrations. 
  • Anesthetic effects on cerebral metabolic rate predict histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Apoptosis is not enhanced in primary mixed neuronal/glial cultures protected by isoflurane against N-methyl-D-aspartate excitotoxicity. 
  • Bispectral analysis during cardiopulmonary bypass: the effect of hypothermia on the hypnotic state. 
  • Bispectral index monitoring, duration of bispectral index below 45, patient risk factors, and intermediate-term mortality after noncardiac surgery in the B-Unaware Trial. 
  • Cardiopulmonary bypass reduces the minimum alveolar concentration for isoflurane. 
  • Cause of CO poisoning, relation to halogenated agents still not clear. 
  • Combined general-epidural anesthesia decreases the desflurane requirement for equivalent A-line ARX index in colorectal surgery. 
  • Comparing the effects of minimal low-flow desflurane with that of semi-close high flow desflurane on perioperative cytokine response in patients undergoing gastrectomy. 
  • Comparison of electrophysiologic effects of propofol and isoflurane-based anesthetics in children undergoing radiofrequency catheter ablation for supraventricular tachycardia. 
  • Cumulative duration of "triple low" state of low blood pressure, low bispectral index, and low minimum alveolar concentration of volatile anesthesia is not associated with increased mortality. 
  • Differential effects of anesthetic agents on outcome from near-complete but not incomplete global ischemia in the rat. 
  • Drug interactions: volatile anesthetics and opioids. 
  • Effect of nitrous oxide on cerebral blood velocity while reclining and standing. 
  • Effects of desflurane on jugular bulb gases and pressure in neurosurgical patients. 
  • Effects of isoflurane, ketamine, and fentanyl/N2O on concentrations of brain and plasma catecholamines during near-complete cerebral ischemia in the rat. 
  • Effects of postischemic halothane administration on outcome from transient focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. 
  • Effects of pulmonary static inflation with 50% xenon on oxygen impairment during cardiopulmonary bypass for stanford type A acute aortic dissection: A pilot study. 
  • Effects of volatile anesthetics on N-methyl-D-aspartate excitotoxicity in primary rat neuronal-glial cultures. 
  • Filling in the blanks. 
  • General anesthesia improves fetal cerebral oxygenation without evidence of subsequent neuronal injury. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and neurological disease. 
  • Influence of nociception and stress-induced antinociception on genetic variation in isoflurane anesthetic potency among mouse strains. 
  • Intact cerebral blood flow reactivity during remifentanil/nitrous oxide anesthesia. 
  • Isoflurane for life-threatening bronchospasm: a 15-year single-center experience. 
  • Isoflurane neuroprotection: a passing fantasy, again? 
  • Isoflurane provides long-term protection against focal cerebral ischemia in the rat. 
  • Isoflurane, but not halothane, induces protection of human myocardium via adenosine A1 receptors and adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels. 
  • Isoflurane-induced neuronal degeneration: an evaluation in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures. 
  • Keep it flowing: a simulation involving defective anesthetic gas delivery equipment. 
  • NMDA-induced apoptosis in mixed neuronal/glial cortical cell cultures: the effects of isoflurane and dizocilpine. 
  • Neuroprotection by nitrous oxide and xenon and its relation to minimum alveolar concentration. 
  • Onset and recovery of neuromuscular blockade after two doses of rocuronium in children. 
  • Opioid-volatile anesthetic synergy: a response surface model with remifentanil and sevoflurane as prototypes. 
  • Periischemic cerebral blood flow (CBF) does not explain beneficial effects of isoflurane on outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in rats. 
  • Pharmacodynamic interactions between cisatracurium and rocuronium. 
  • Pharmacologically defined components of the normal porcine multifocal ERG. 
  • Postischemic nitrous oxide alone versus intraischemic nitrous oxide in the presence of isoflurane: what it may change for neuroprotection against cerebral stroke in the rat. 
  • Prevention of intraoperative awareness. 
  • Reversible nitrous oxide myelopathy and a polymorphism in the gene encoding 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. 
  • Severe hypotension is not essential for isoflurane neuroprotection against forebrain ischemia in mice. 
  • Sevoflurane Induces Coherent Slow-Delta Oscillations in Rats. 
  • Substantial postoperative pain is common among children undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy. 
  • Suppression of natural killer cell activity and promotion of tumor metastasis by ketamine, thiopental, and halothane, but not by propofol: mediating mechanisms and prophylactic measures. 
  • Sympathetic ganglionic blockade masks beneficial effect of isoflurane on histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Technical communication: inhaled anesthetic agent-vaporizer mismatch: management in settings with limited resources: don't try this at home. 
  • Temporary disruption of the rat blood-brain barrier with a monoclonal antibody: a novel method for dynamic manganese-enhanced MRI. 
  • The influence of xenon, nitrous oxide and nitrogen on gas bubble expansion during cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Time-varying spectral analysis revealing differential effects of sevoflurane anaesthesia: non-rhythmic-to-rhythmic ratio. 
  • When is a bispectral index of 60 too low?: Rational processed electroencephalographic targets are dependent on the sedative-opioid ratio. 
  • Xenon and the inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass in the rat. 
  • Xenon impairs neurocognitive and histologic outcome after cardiopulmonary bypass combined with cerebral air embolism in rats. 
  • gamma-Aminobutyric acid-A receptors contribute to isoflurane neuroprotection in organotypic hippocampal cultures. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology