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1. Role of Neuromuscular Junction Monitoring in Management of a Postpartum Eclamptic Patient with Iatrogenic Hypermagnesemia

Author

Harshel G Parikh and Chitra B Upasani

Subjects
Anesthesiology, RD78.3-87.3
Abstract

Accidental hypermagnesemia is a common and often missed complication during treatment in a postpartum eclamptic patient. As symptomatic hypermagnesemia leads to neuromuscular junction blockade, neuromuscular junction monitoring serves the purpose of vigilant monitoring and prevents iatrogenic overdose of magnesium.

Published
2010

2. Atrial septal defect closure on cardiopulmonary bypass in a sickle cell anemia: role of hydroxyurea and partial exchange transfusion

Author

Bharat N. Shah, Sananta Kumar Dash, Chitra B Upasani, and Kundan S Gosavi

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, medicine.medical_treatment, Analgesic, Exchange transfusion, Anemia, Sickle Cell, Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, Heart Septal Defects, Atrial, law.invention, law, Antisickling Agents, Internal medicine, Cardiopulmonary bypass, Medicine, Humans, Hydroxyurea, Blood Transfusion, Sickle Hemoglobin, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, business.industry, General Medicine, Atrial septal defect closure, medicine.disease, Sickle cell anemia, Cardiac surgery, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Treatment Outcome, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Heart Arrest, Induced, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Partial exchange transfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass, while conducting cardiac surgery may be a useful technique in patients with high level of sickle hemoglobin. Along with this preoperative use of hydroxyurea and alternative analgesic modalities such as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in postoperative period may be beneficial, in our opinion. A 16-year-old female of Turner's syndrome having sickle cell anemia scheduled for closure of arterial septal defect on cardiopulmonary bypass was managed with partial exchange transfusion and warm cardioplegia.

Published
2010

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