Papers of the Week

In the anesthesia management of percutaneous liver tumor ablation, the requirement of analgesia is very strict. Currently, intravenous anesthesia is commonly used, such as remifentanil combined with sedative drugs. However, the pain relief is not instantaneous after increasing the dosage of remifentanil. Esketamine, a medium- or long-term analgesic drug, does not inhibit respiration to maintain patient comfort during the ablation and reduces the consumption of remifentanil. Therefore, this experiment was designed to investigate the potential of combinational therapy and the most appropriate dose of esketamine.