AUGUST 2013 ISSUE

INVITED EDITORIAL

The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation: Pioneering success in safety but challenges remain

EDITORIALS

Medication errors: A matter of serious concern

New strategy for severe Legionella pneumonia?

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Medical errors related to look-alike and sound-alike drugs

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A comparative study of the effect of parentral and oral glutamine on biochemical parameters and on the duration of ICU stay in critically ill patients

Efficacy and patient acceptability of analgesia by intranasal diamorphine in burns patients: results of a pilot project

Effect of gabapentin on opioid requirements in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy

‘An observational study of the risk factors and incidence of invasive fungal infections in ICU patients

Anil K Paswan, MD*, Dinesh C. Raju, MD**, D. K. Singh, MD***, R. K. Dubey, MD*, Pankaj K. Mishra, MD****

Influence of pediatric disease severity on parental report of children admitted in a tertiary care center PICU

 A randomized, double blind, control study of the effects of adding nalbuphine to spinal bupivacaine for lower abdominal surgeries in elderly patients

 Tetanus: still a killer in adults

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as an adjunct to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications for pain management during pleurodesis

Randomized double blinded controlled study of  ropivacaine versus bupivacaine in combined spinal epidural anesthesia

Comparison of ease of intubation in right and left lateral position using C-MAC videolaryngoscope

REVIEW ARTICLES

An internet based expert system to control workers compensation costs documented by outcome studies

NSAIDs and hypertension

CASE REPORTS

Succinylcholine induced masseter muscle rigidity: an isolated event

Anesthetic management of a case of alkaptonuria

Anesthetic management of a case of a large atrial septal defect with mild pulmonary hypertension for emergency cesarean section

Pneumomediastinitis following internal jugular vein central line insertion: Case report and review of literature

Wonders with caudal epidural analgesia for tracheoesophageal fistula in neonates

Association of difficult airway to VACTERL anomaly: An anesthetic challenge

Unrecognised peripartum cardiomyopathy will have dire consequences

Use of doxazosin and phenoxybenzamine in two children with pheochromocytoma

Japanese encephalitis

Syringe swap and similar looking drug containers: A matter of serious concern

PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE

Drug errors: a case of syringe swap

Arshad Taqi, FCPS*, Tariq Hayat Khan, FCPS**

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Anesthetic Management of  clival chordoma  with retropharyngeal extension: Importance of imaging

Neha Singh, MD*, Parnandi Bhaskar Rao, MD, PDCC**, Devendra Gupta, MD, PDCC***, Sushil Prakash Ambesh, MD****

Takayasu’s arteritis : An anesthetic challenge

Nidhi Bhatia, MD, DNB*, Kiran Jangra, MD**

Inadvertent hydrothorax after multi lumen central venous catheter placement

*Sujit Vasudevan Nair, MD*, Khalifa Abdullah Mohammed Al-Ghafri, MRCS**, Aziz Haris, MD, STARCSI*, Rashid Manzoor Khan, MD* and Naresh Kaul, MD*

Endotracheal intubation with angiographic catheter after esophageal intubation in emergency department

Sukhen Samanta, MD, PDCC*, Sujay Samanta, MD**

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