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Endotracheal Intubation Using a Flexible Intubation Endoscope as a Standardized Model for Safe Airway Management in Swine

Endotracheal intubation is often a basic requirement for translational research in porcine models for various interventions that require a secured airway ...

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Lipopolysaccharide Infusion as a Porcine Endotoxemic Shock Model

Sepsis and septic shock are frequently encountered in patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) and are among the leading causes of death in these ...

University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University

Epidural analgesia could influence the postoperative oncologic outcomes in patients with specific types of non-metastatic solid neoplasms. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of anesthetic technique on survival in elderly patients with ovarian cancer (OC). The records of all women with OC older than 60 years of age undergoing tumor debulking surgery at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Mainz, Germany) between January 2008 and December 2019 were obtained. The study cohort was divided into two groups based on the use of perioperative epidural anesthesia or not. First, Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to analyze the prognostic influence of anesthetic technique on survival. Second, multivariate Cox proportional hazards model was adjusted for multiple conventional prognostic factors concerning three main categories: i) Current clinical-pathological tumor characteristics; ii) anesthesiologic parameters, including mean age, American Society of Anesthesiologists Performance Status and preexisting comorbidities summarized in the Charlson Comorbidity Index; and iii) oncological and surgical parameters such as oncological radicality and Surgical complexity Score. A total of 110 patients were included in the study and 71 (64.5%) of them received epidural analgesia. The median survival time was 26.0 months from primary debulking surgery and no significant differences in progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were noted between the 'Epidural' and 'non-Epidural' cohorts. After adjustment for the selected risk factors from the three categories, the effects of epidural analgesia on PFS and OS remained non-significant [PFS: hazard ratio (HR), 1.26; 95% CI, 0.66-2.39; and OS: HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.45-1.40]. The present results did not support the independent association between epidural-supplemented anesthesia and improved PFS or OS in elderly patients with standardized ovarian cancer debulking surgery.

Influence of anesthetic technique on survival after tumor debulking surgery of elderly patients with ovarian cancer: Results of a retrospective cohort study.

Influencing the inflammatory response represents an important branch in ARDS research. The naturally occurring polyphenol derivative resveratrol has already been confirmed to have strong anti-inflammatory effects on the cardiac and metabolic system. In the present study, we investigated the propagated anti-inflammatory effects of intravenous resveratrol in a porcine ARDS model.

Miriam Renz

Department of Anesthesiology

University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University

Endotracheal Intubation Using a Flexible Intubation Endoscope as a Standardized Model for Safe Airway Management in Swine

Lipopolysaccharide Infusion as a Porcine Endotoxemic Shock Model

Miriam Renz

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University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University

Endotracheal Intubation Using a Flexible Intubation Endoscope as a Standardized Model for Safe Airway Management in Swine

Lipopolysaccharide Infusion as a Porcine Endotoxemic Shock Model

Department of Anesthesiology