Intraspinal narcotic anesthesia in open heart surgery

Intraspinal narcotic anesthesia in open heart surgery.

Intraspinal narcotic anesthesia was performed in 180 open heart surgery patients. 0.1 mg/Kg of morphine or 1.5 mg/Kg of meperidine was administered as the primary anesthetic in the subarachnoid space using the barbotage technique. Of the 180 patients scheduled for open heart surgery, morphine was administered to 95 patients, meperidine to 55 and a mixture of morphine and meperidine to 30 patien...

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery (Open-Closed Heart)

In this paper the duties of an anesthesiologist and his right of i=;electing patient is discussed. La,ter, we di:=:cuss the <::mergencies cf heart surgery, pre up visit and alsc few dcails of pre up medication cf thei,e pati<mts. We also touch on the stages of anesthPsia and point to our preference for the use cf artery and vein for arterial and venous cannulation. In this paper we discuss in b...

Narcotic anesthesia for cardiovascular surgery.

outcome of anesthesia and open heart surgery in pregnant patients

background: cardiovascular disease is an important non-obstetric cause of maternal and fetal /neonatal morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. for a pregnant woman with cardiac disease, the potential inability of the maternal cardiovascular system to contend with normal pregnancy-induced physiologic changes may produce deleterious effects on both mother and fetus. to determine the most freque...

Anesthesia for Pediatric Open Heart Surgery

Persons who participate in the care of pediatric patients tend to undershoot or overshoot in their general approach to small patients. Some consider pediatric patients simply as small people and by adjustment for body weight, expect adult type responses. Others are so impressed with differences between newborns and adults they treat all children as a separate animal species. Clearly infants and...