The gas mixture was delivered through a small anesthesia mask (David Kopf Instruments, Tujunga, CA) connected to a calibrated Fluotec 5 (Fluotec-Ohmeda, Tewksbury, MA, USA) vaporizer at a flow rate of 1 4 L/min oxygen.
Animals were placed in a stereotaxic frame and ventilated with isoflurane (2% 0.8 l/min O2) through a gas anesthesia mask.
Through an auricular vein, anesthesia was induced with thionembutal (12 mg/kg; Tiopental®, Abbott, São Paulo, Brazil) and muscular relaxation with pancuronium bromide (0.1 mg/kg; Pavulon®, AKZO Nobel, São Paulo, Brazil).
She walks us through a world before anesthesia, when patients sometimes opted for suicide over the scalpel.
I have proven I can be a chicken with golden eggs at an age when most statistics have given me up for half-dead... why do I want to put myself through anesthesia and an "operation" when I never needed any of it for 39 years?
The procedures were performed through local anesthesia and sedation in an inpatient basis by several surgeons with different expertise.
When haptic sensation in the feet is impaired, as a result of a disease such as diabetes, or through local anesthesia, it can have detrimental effects on locomotion [8] [11].
