Patient Blood Management: Transfusion Therapy

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Key Points ▪ Blood transfusion is safer now than at any other time in history. Advances in donor screening, improved testing, automated data systems, and changes in transfusion medicine practices…

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Basic Principles of Pharmacology

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Key Wordsage, body habitus, clearance, interactions, patient characteristics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, volumes of distribution   Key Points ▪ Pharmacokinetics describes the relationship between drug dose and drug concentration in plasma or…

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Opioids

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Key WordsAnalgesia, Biased Agonism, Delta-, Dependence, Hyperalgesia, Kappa- Receptor, Metabolism, Mu-, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Tolerance   Key Points ▪ Opioids are a vital part of providing the analgesic component of anesthesia…

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Neuromuscular Disorders Including Malignant Hyperthermia and Other Genetic Disorders

Mar 7, 2020 by in ANESTHESIA Comments Off on Neuromuscular Disorders Including Malignant Hyperthermia and Other Genetic Disorders

Key WordsCharcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Dantrolene, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Malignant Hyperthermia, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Ryanodine   Key Points ▪ Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a pharmacogenetic disorder inherited primarily in an autosomal dominant…

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Intravenous Anesthetics

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Key Points ▪ The introduction of thiopental into clinical practice in 1934 marked the beginning of modern intravenous (IV) anesthesia. Today, IV anesthetics are used for induction and maintenance of…

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Pharmacology of Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

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Key Points ▪ Two different populations of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors exist at the mammalian neuromuscular junction. In the adult, the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at the postsynaptic (muscular) membrane is composed…

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