Parmacokinetics of tow rectal dosage forms after anal surgery, especially in serum level Ketoprofen under local and spinal anesthesia.

Dosage of local anesthesia in wide awake hand surgery.

O NE OF THE MORE NOTABLE recent changes in hand surgery is the method of delivery of the anesthesia. Similar to when they are having a dental procedure, patients who understand and are offered the wide awake alternative like the ideas of (1) no preoperative testing, (2) no tourniquet pain, (3) less time at the hospital to have the surgery, (4) the ability to speak to their surgeon during the su...

P-179: Spinal Anesthesia in Laparoscopic Surgery of Infertile Patients

Background: Laparoscopy is one of the most common surgical procedures. General anesthesia as the only suitable technique for laparoscopic procedures is a concept of the past. A problem with modern general anesthetics is that even though patients can be awake and oriented shortly after cessation of the anesthetic. There is growing evidence suggesting that regional anesthesia has an important rol...

Spinal Anesthesia for Lower Level Spine Surgery

Unilateral spinal anesthesia combined with local anesthesia for ptosis surgery.

A 46-year-old patient with bilateral ptosis and poor levator function was scheduled for ptosis surgery. Frontal suspension surgery with autogenous fascia lata1,2 was planned under general anesthesia. Patient had a history of type-II diabetes mellitus and poor control of blood glucose level. He was a heavy smoker and had decreased breath sounds bilaterally on chest examination. We decided to per...

Sedation for Epilepsy Surgery under Local Anesthesia

Performing craniotomy with the patient awake continues to represent an important option for the surgical management of patients with refractory epilepsy when intraoperative functional neurologic testing or electrocorticography (ECoG) are needed to define the extent of the corticectomy. The long duration of many neurosurgical procedures, the need to perform intraoperative functional cortical map...