Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (APM) is the official scientific journal of Korean Society of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (KSNACC), The Korean Society for Anesthetic Pharmacology (KSAP), The Korean Society of Obstetric Anesthesiologists (KSOA), The Korean Society of Pediatric Anesthesiologists (KSPA), Korean Neuromuscular Research Society (KNRS), Korean Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiologists (KSCVA), Korean Society of Transplantation Anesthesiologists (KSTA), The Korean Spinal Pain Society (KSPS), Korean Society of Regional Anesthesia (KSRA), and Korean Society for Airway Management (KSAM). The abbreviated title is "Anesth Pain Med". It is published four times a year on the last day of January, April, July, and October in English.

Review

October 29, 2021

Anesthetic management of obese and morbidly obese parturients

Sang Tae Kim

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):313-321.

The prevalence of obese parturients is increasing worldwide. This review describes safe analgesic techniques for labor and anesthetic management during cesarean sections in obese parturients. The epidural analgesic technique is...

Review

October 29, 2021

Real-time ultrasound guided thoracic epidural catheterization: a technical review

Jong-Hyuk Lee, Doo-Hwan Kim, Won Uk Koh

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):322-328.

Thoracic epidural analgesia is known to have superior perioperative pain control over intravenous opioid analgesia in open abdominal surgery and is an essential enhanced recovery after surgery component in major...

Review

October 29, 2021

Intraoperative management for ex-utero intrapartum treatment: focusing on the fetus

Woosuk Chung, Chaeseong Lim

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):329-337.

Ex-utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) is a method of securing the airway of a fetus while maintaining umbilical circulation for newborns who are experiencing life-threatening airway obstruction. Cesarean section is completed...

Transplantation Anesthesia | Clinical Research

October 29, 2021

Preoperative 2D-echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure in subgroups of liver transplantation recipients

Jungchan Park, Myung Soo Park, Ji-Hye Kwon, et al.

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):344-352.

Background: The clinical efficacy of preoperative 2D-echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) has not been evaluated fully in liver transplantation (LT) recipients. Methods: From October 2010 to February 2017, a...

Transplantation Anesthesia | Clinical Research

October 14, 2021

Preoperative hyperlactatemia and early mortality after liver transplantation: selection of important variables using random forest survival analysis

Yuseon Cheong, Sangho Lee, Do-Kyeong Lee, et al.

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):353-359.

Background: Generally, lactate levels > 2 mmol/L represent hyperlactatemia, whereas lactic acidosis is often defined as lactate > 4 mmol/L. Although hyperlactatemia is common finding in liver transplant (LT) candidates,...

Transplantation Anesthesia | Clinical Research

October 22, 2021

Ability of dynamic preload indices to predict fluid responsiveness in a high femoral-to-radial arterial pressure gradient: a retrospective study

Seon Ju Kim, So Yeon Kim, Hye Sun Lee, et al.

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):360-367.

Background: Dynamic preload indices may predict fluid responsiveness in end-stage liver disease. However, their usefulness in patients with altered vascular compliance is uncertain. This study is the first to evaluate...

Regional Anesthesia | Clinical Research

October 14, 2021

Comparison of landmark and real-time ultrasound-guided epidural catheter placement in the pediatric population: a prospective randomized comparative trial

Tanya Mital, Manoj Kamal, Mritunjay Kumar, et al.

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):368-376.

Background: Epidural block placement in pediatric patients is technically challenging for anesthesiologists. The use of ultrasound (US) for the placement of an epidural catheter has shown promise. We compared landmark-guided...

Airway Management | Clinical Research

October 22, 2021

The effects of backward, upward, rightward pressure maneuver for intubation using the Optiscope^TM: a retrospective study

Sei-hoon Oh, Sang-kwon Heo, Seung-Uk Cheon, et al.

Anesth Pain Med. 2021;16(4):391-397.

Background: The OptiscopeTM and the backward, upward, rightward pressure (BURP) maneuver are widely used in clinical practice because the BURP maneuver facilitates intubation by improving visualization of the larynx. However,...

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