Background It is not known whether modern volatile anesthetics are associated with less
mortality and postoperative pulmonary or other complications in patients undergoing …

Objectives: The authors performed a meta-analysis to investigate whether the
cardioprotective effects of volatile anesthetics translate into decreased morbidity and …

Laboratory Animal Anaesthesia, Fourth Edition provides a basic guide to anaesthesia for a
very diverse audience needing content, with straight-forward, structured style of writing …

Cardiac surgery and some noncardiac procedures are associated with a significant risk of
perioperative cardiac morbid events. Experimental data indicate that clinical concentrations …

Acute kidney injury, a common complication of cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary
bypass, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Ischemic preconditioning at a …

Openheart surgery triggers an inflammatory response that is largely the result of surgical
trauma, cardiopulmonary bypass, and organ reperfusion injury (eg heart). The heart sustains …

1 Xenon is an anesthetic with minimal hemodynamic side effects, making it an ideal agent
for cardiocompromised patients. We investigated if xenon induces pharmacological …

Purpose. The characteristics of ideal intravenous (iv) and inhaled anesthetic agents; the
rationale for inducing anesthesia with iv anesthetics (particularly propofol); the rationale for …

In the present study, we tested the ability of sevoflurane to induce early and late
preconditioning against ischemic neuronal injury using an in vivo model of global cerebral …

Background Perinatal hypoxia-ischemia causes significant morbidity and mortality. Xenon
and sevoflurane may be used as inhalational analgesics for labor. Therefore, the authors …