Introduction: Nowadays, spinal anesthesia is associated with few complications in many surgical practices especially the elective caesarean which is taken as a suitable replacement for general anesthesia. Different drugs are used for spinal anesthesia. This study aims to compare lidocaine 5% in combination with meperidine 5% plus lidocaine 5% for spinal anesthesia in non-emergency cesarean pati...

UNLABELLED Shivering is a frequent complication in the postoperative period. The relative efficacy of interventions that are used for the treatment of postoperative shivering is not well understood. We performed a systematic search (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, hand searching, all languages, to August, 2000) for full reports of randomized comparisons of any pharmacological antishivering i...

Suppository diclofenac instead of intravenous meperidine for postoperative management

Background: Pain and shivering are two unpleasant problems in postoperative period. Various techniques are used to alleviate the postoperative shivering and pain.  We compared the preemptive prescription of a single dose of intravenous meperidine and ketorolac on postoperative pain and shivering in patients undergoing cesarean section with spinal anesthesia. Methods: One hundred and ...

objective: to evaluate the effect of meperidine, commonly administered for labor analgesia, on newborn weight and peripartum breastfeeding during two months after delivery. materials and methods: this pilot cohort study was conducted between october 2010 and october 2011 at the women hospital of the tehran university of medical sciences. in this study, we examined the effects of meperidine on b...

A 52-year-old female patient, with a long history of chronic low back pain treated over time with various modalities including, recently, opioids, goes on Friday evening to the emergency room for, she says, “excruciating, paralyzing, back pain.” The house officer working her up finds that she just ran out of the pain medications she was previously on; his evaluation is totally negative; the pat...

background: spinal anesthesia is usually applied for urologic surgeries. postdural puncture headache (pdph) is among common complications which has not been reduced during last years despite all advances in the field of medicine. therapeutic effects of conventional therapy (paracetamol and novaphen) are being compared to intravenous meperidine in patients suffering from pdph. methods: one hundr...