January – March 2014 Issue

EDITORIALS

Doctor, the child has no pulse; where is the manual?

Is regional anesthesia safe in children?

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Ropivacaine is a better alternative to lidocaine in intra-venous regional anesthesia

Perioperative assessment of left ventricular function in patients with mitral valve stenosis undergoing mitral valve replacement: Utility of Tei index and ejection fraction

Low dose of isobaric bupivacaine provides lower incidence of spinal hypotension for hip surgery in elderly patients

A proactive risk assessment by utilizing ‘Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis’ (HFMEA) for safe implementation of peripheral nerve catheters in pediatric patients

Comparison of the effects of intravenously administered dexmedetomidine with clonidine on hemodynamic responses during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Clinical comparison of five different predictor tests for difficult intubation

A survey of postoperative pediatric pain management among seven hospitals in northeastern Thailand

REVIEW ARTICLES

A brief review of septic cardiomyopathy and possible preventive strategies

CASE REPORTS

GlideScope: A rescuer in difficult pediatric airway

Amitraz: An unusual poisoning

Methylprednisolone in hair dye poisoning

Foot drop after subarachnoid block for removal of McDonald cervical suture and cesarean section

Perioperative reexpansion pulmonary edema

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Peripheral regional anesthesia in infants and children: an update

Giorgio Veneziano, Ralph Betran, Tarun Bhalla,
David P. Martin, Joseph D. Tobias

Updates in pediatric ophthalmic anesthesia

Dina Ahmed

Long term neurotoxicity by general anesthetics in infants

An update on airway management in infants and children

Perioperative hypothermia in pediatric patients: diagnosis, prevention and management

Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa, Swati

Management of acute postoperative pain in pediatric patients

Ashish Kulshrestha, Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa

Cancer pain in children: a two-step strategy

RECENT ADVANCES

TRENDS & TECHNOLOGY

Newer oral anticoagulants in perioperative settings

Dheeraj Kapoor, Harpreet Sandhu,,Manpreet Singh

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

MY MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

14th Asian Australasian Congress of Anaesthesiologists

Difficult airway: An anesthesiologist’s nightmare

CORRESPONSENCES

Inadvertent bronchial intubation by tracheostomy tube in advanced duchenne muscular dystrophy

Low minute ventilation alarm due to endotracheal tube hole

Inadvertent administration of intrathecal protamine during caesarian section

Bupivacaine multidose vial: “For intramuscular use only”

Successful administration of spinal anesthesia using Taylor’s approach for in a kyphoscoliotic patient

Suggested changes in central venous cannulation