Pre-oxygenation and the parturient patient

Hypoxemia and Monitoring Patient Oxygenation

Pre-oxygenation in the obese patient: effects of position on tolerance to apnoea.

BACKGROUND In obese patients, reduced functional residual capacity exacerbated by supine position might decrease the effectiveness of pre-oxygenation and the tolerance to apnoea. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of body posture during pre-oxygenation, sitting or supine, on its effectiveness in obese patients. METHODS Forty obese patients (BMI > or =35 kg m(-2)) undergoing surge...

Survey level of patient anxiety pre and post hemodialysis ‎

Introduction:‎‏ ‏Hemodialysis is an alternative treatment in chronic renal failure and patients ‎with such conditions suffer poor compliance and stress due to long term treatment, unfamiliar ‎utilities and their dependence that can affect their physical and psychosocial condition. ‎ Objective: This study was conducted to determine and compare the level of patient anxi...

Pre-Oxygenation: A Comparison of Three Techniques

Background: Pre-oxygenation is a time honoured ritual carried out in a variety of circumstances. Various methods of preoxygenation have been proposed and followed world wide with vaviable success. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the need for pre-oxygenation prior to the induction of general anaesthesia and also compare the effects of three techniques of pre-oxygenation, on peripheral ...

The anticoagulated parturient.

Neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia are routinely administered to the parturient. A devastating, albeit rare, complication of neuraxial anesthesia is spinal or epidural hematoma, and primarily occurs in patients with disorders of hemostasis. A parturient with a clinically active coagulation disorder, or someone with a history of easy bruising and/or bleeding, is considered to have an absolute co...