Emergency patients need special considerations and the number and severity of
complications from general anaesthesia can be higher than during scheduled procedures …

Deciding on proper medication administration for the traumatic brain injury (TBI) patient
undergoing intubation can be daunting and confusing. Pretreatment with lidocaine and/or …

Acutely elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) may have devastating effects on patient
mortality and neurologic outcomes, yet its initial detection remains difficult because of the …

We investigated whether magnesium sulphate combined with rocuronium priming shortens
the onset of neuromuscular blockade, compared with these methods used alone. Ninety‐two …

La secuencia de intubación rápida (SIR) es un procedimiento diseñado para minimizar el
tiempo necesario en el aseguramiento de la vía aérea mediante la colocación de un tubo …

Injuries to the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) are a heterogeneous group
of pathologic disorders. They can be categorized by mechanisms of injury, clinical severity …

Background: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation increase blood pressure (BP) and heart
rate (HR). We studied the effect of gabapentin 800 mg given orally one hour before surgery …

Remifentanil belongs to opioid drugs, and its pharmacokinetic characteristics make it unique
in this class of drugs and appropriate for use during intubation without neuromuscular …

Objective We investigated the effects of four different anaesthesia induction protocols on the
haemodynamic response to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation during rapid-sequence …

Results: Data from 78 patients were analyzed. Demograpic characteristics did not differ
between the study groups. A total of 24 BIS scores were recorded for each patient. No …