Background: Postoperative shivering is an important and troublesome condition during recovery from general anesthesia.  Corticosteroids have been recommended to facilitate recovery and diminish shivering after cardiac surgery.  Previous studies recommended 0.6 mg/kg dexamethasone for reducing postoperative shivering in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.   Objective: To test this assertion, we...

Remifentanil is an ultra short acting opioid that is suitable for many operations and is wildly used for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. In this article we have reported the incidence of abdominal pain after cataract surgery in patients with remifentanil based anesthesia. This study is a randomized single blind clinical trial on 300 patients who were candidates for elective cataract su...

A balanced anesthesia protocol is called perfect when it has fast induction, excellent recovery, the least effect on the cardiopulmonary system and sufficient analgesia. Many of anesthetic combinations have an analgesic effect without opioids. However, at the end of anesthesia, analgesia decreases or is incomplete. The purpose of this study was to evaluate anesthesia times, ele...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We surveyed patients undergoing day surgery to determine attitudes towards medical students' during induction of regional anesthesia. DESIGN/INTERVENTIONS During a two-month period, an anonymous questionnaire was given to one hundred and eighty patients presenting for elective day surgery with planned regional anesthesia. SETTING Pre-operative assessment area in a district g...

Background: Anesthesia is essential to facilitate the majority of pediatric electrophysiology studies (EPS); however, a risk of an arrhythmia exists during its induction. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of arrhythmia during anesthesia induction in pediatric EPS. Methods: IRB approved retrospective review of pediatric EPS from 1/99 to 1/14. Inclusion criteria: Age ≤ 21 y...

BACKGROUND The endocannabinoid system includes G-protein-coupled cannabinoid receptors, the endocannabinoids N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol, and multiple enzymes involved in the biosynthesis and degradation of endocannabinoids, including the anandamide metabolizing enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase. Endocannabinoids play an important role in the physiologic c...