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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious psychiatric illness that causes functional impairment in many people. While monoaminergic antidepressants have been used to effectively treat MDD, these antidepressants have limitations in that they have delayed onset of action and many patients remain treatment-resistant. Therefore, there is a need to develop antidepressants with a novel target, and researchers have directed their attention to the glutamatergic system. Ketamine, although developed as an anesthetic, has been found to produce an antidepressant effect at sub-anesthetic doses via N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor blockade as well as NMDA receptor- independent pathways. A single infusion of ketamine produced rapid improvement in clinical symptoms to a considerable level and led to the resolution of serious depressive symptoms, including imminent suicidal ideation, in patients with MDD. A series of recent randomized controlled trials have provided a high level of evidence for the therapeutic efficacy of ketamine treatment in MDD and presented new insights on the dose, usage, and route of administration of ketamine as an antidepressant. With this knowledge, it is expected that ketamine treatment protocols for MDD will be established as a treatment option available in clinical practice. However, long-term safety must be taken into consideration as ketamine has abuse potential and it is associated with psychological side effects such as dissociative or psychotomimetic effects.Background Some early reports on dexmedetomidine suggest that it impairs cerebral autoregulation and may have deleterious effects; however, concrete evidence is lacking. This study was perfomed to assess its effect on dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) using transcranial Doppler (TCD). Methods Thirty American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I and II patients between 18 and 60 years, undergoing lumbar spine surgery, received either an infusion of dexmedetomidine (Group D) or normal saline (Group C), followed by anesthesia induction with propofol, fentanyl and maintenance with oxygen, nitrous oxide and sevoflurane. After five minutes of normocapnic ventilation and stable bispectral index value (BIS) of 40-50, the right middle cerebral artery flow velocity (MCAFV) was recorded with TCD. The Transient Hyperemic Response (THR) test was performed by compressing the right common carotid artery for 5-7 seconds. Subsequently, the lungs were hyperventilated to test carbon dioxide (CO2) reactivity. Trolox Hemodynamic parameters, arterial CO2 tension, pulse oximetry (SpO2), MCAFV and BIS values were recorded before and after hyperventilation. Dexmedetomidine infusion was stopped ten minutes before skin-closure. The time to recovery and extubation, modified Aldrete score, and emergence agitation were recorded. Results Demographic parameters, durations of surgery and anesthesia, THR ratio [Group D 1.26(0.11) vs. Group C 1.23(0.04); p=0.357], relative CO2 reactivity [Group D 1.19(0.34) %/mmHg vs. Group C 1.23(0.25) %/mmHg; p=0.547], blood pressure, SpO2, BIS, MCAFV, time to recovery, time to extubation and modified Aldrete scores were comparable. Conclusions Dexmedetomidine administration does not impair dCA and CO2 reactivity in patients undergoing spine surgery under sevoflurane anesthesia.Emergence agitation (EA), which is also referred to as emergence delirium, can lead to clinically significant consequences. The mechanism of EA remains unclear. Proposed contributors to EA include age, male sex, type of surgery, emergency operation, use of inhalational anesthetics with low blood-gas partition coefficients, long duration of surgery, anticholinergics, premedication with benzodiazepines, voiding urgency, postoperative pain, and the presence of invasive devices. If pre- or intraoperative objective monitoring could predict the occurrence of agitation during emergence, this would help to reduce the adverse consequences of EA. Several tools are available for assessing EA; however, its incidence varies considerably according to the assessment tool and definition of EA used, due to the absence of standardized clinical research practice guidelines. Total intravenous anesthesia, propofol, μ-opioid agonists, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists, nefopam, α2-adrenoreceptor agonists, regional analgesia, multimodal analgesia, parent-present induction, and preoperative education for surgery may contribute to prevention of EA. However, it is difficult to identify patients at high risk for EA and to properly apply EA prevention methods in various clinical situations, because both risk factors and preventive strategies often show inconsistent results depending on the methodology of the study and the patients assessed. This review discusses the most important research topics related to EA and directions for future research.Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing anesthesiology research. Unlike classical research methods that are largely inference-based, ML is geared more towards making accurate predictions. ML is a field of artificial intelligence concerned with developing algorithms and models to perform prediction tasks in the absence of explicit instructions. Most ML applications, despite being highly variable in the topics that they deal with, generally follow a common workflow. For classification tasks, a researcher typically tests various ML models and compares the predictive performance with the reference logistic regression model. The main advantage of ML is in its ability to deal with many features with complex interactions and its specific focus on maximizing predictive performance. However, the emphasis on data-driven prediction can sometimes neglect mechanistic understanding. This article mainly focuses on supervised ML as applied to electronic health records (EHR) data. The main limitation of EHR based studies is in the difficulty of establishing causal relationships. However, low cost and rich information content provide great potential to uncover hitherto unknown correlations. In this review, the basic concepts of ML are introduced along with important terms that any ML researcher should know. Practical tips regarding the choice of software and computing devices are provided. Towards the end, several examples of successful application of ML to anesthesiology are discussed. The goal of this article is to provide a basic roadmap to novice ML researchers working in the field of anesthesiology.
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