Volume vs Pressure controlled ventilation (VCV vs PCV)
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Anticholinergics Administered as Pharmacologic Premedication.
The muscarinic antagonists compete with neurally released acetylcholine ( ACh ) for access to muscarinic cholinoceptors and block ACh’s effects. The results are faster heart rate, sedation, and dry mouth. With the exception of the quaternary ammonium compounds that do not readily cross the blood-brain barrier and have few actions on the CNS, there is no significant specificity of action among these drugs; they block all muscarinic effects with equal efficacy, although there are some quantitative differences in effect.
POSTOPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF (WHO).
Pain is often the patient’s presenting symptom. It can provide useful clinical information and it is your responsibility to use this information to help the patient and alleviate suffering. Manage pain wherever you see patients (emergency, operating room and on the ward) and anticipate their needs for pain management after surgery and discharge. Do not unnecessarily delay the treatment of pain; for example, do not transport a patient without analgesia simply so that the next practitioner can appreciate how much pain the patient is experiencing.
Perioperative Bleeding Management in Cardiovascular Surgery
According to Guidelines from the European Society of Anaesthesiology Cardiovascular surgery: