OBJECTIVE Study the satisfaction of parents with ambulatory anesthesia and associated factors, including characteristics of the patients and their parents. MATERIAL AND METHOD This was a prospective, descriptive, observation study. The authors included children who were scheduled for ambulatory anesthetic service between birth and 14 years of age and attended at Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kae...

Over 100 years ago August Bier performed the first recorded spinal anaesthetic; and complications from the use of regional anaesthesia have been described over this same period of time. Bier also being the first to describe a ‘spinal’ or ‘post dural-puncture headache’ [1]. In Great Britain a number of high profile legal cases in the 1950s concerning major complications of neuraxial techniques l...

Ocular regional anesthesia can be accomplished with either a peribulbar or retrobulbar approach. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Complications can be vision-threatening or life-threatening. Positioning the eye in neutral gaze when retrobulbar block is executed and using a needle no longer than 31 mm are effective strategies to reduce the incidence of serious complications.