BACKGROUND Although in modern anaesthesia, monitoring depth of anaesthesia and quality of neuromuscular block are routine, monitoring of analgesia still remains challenging. Recently, the surgical stress index (SSI), derived from finger photoplethysmographic signal, was introduced as a surrogate variable reflecting the nociception-antinociception balance. This study aimed at evaluating the SSI ...

Anesthesia followed by placement in the prone position takes time and may result in complications. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of awake nasotracheal fiberoptic intubation and self-positioning followed by anesthesia induction in prone-positioned patients under general anesthesia.Sixty-two patients (ASA physical status I-II) scheduled for awake nasotracheal fiberoptic intubation ...

statement of the problem: premedication is expedient in reducing the psychological trauma from recalling the unpleasant pre-anesthetic phases, hence, inducing a trouble-free anesthesia. purpose: this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of oral midazolam in co-operation of the subjects before general anesthesia and in recalling the pre-anesthetic phases, performed on children candidate fo...

The risk of life-threatening complications during induction of anesthesia in patients with anterior mediastinal mass is well recognized. Maintenance of spontaneous ventilation during anesthesia is an accepted standard goal in all published reports. However, the decision to paralyze the patient, which is really needed in most surgical procedures, is still a challenging event. In this study, “man...

Isoflurane is a representative inhalant anesthesia used in laboratory animals. However, isoflurane mediates respiratory depression and adverse clinical reactions during induction. In the present study, we established a novel balanced anesthesia method in mice that combined isoflurane anesthesia with midazolam and butorphanol (MB). Thirty-four male C57BL/6J mice received either isoflurane alone ...

conclusions lidocaine does not have additive effects on duration and quality of spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine in those undergoing turp. results both study groups were comparable regarding the baseline characteristics. we did not find any difference between the two study groups regarding the duration of anesthetic block reaching the maximum level (p = 0.433) and duration of decreasing it to...

rabbits are widely used as laboratory animals for experimental surgery. anesthesia of rabbits may present complications unless the method is easy to apply and safe to use. in present study, effects of different dosages of vitamin c on thiopental sodium induced anesthesia in 25 male new zealand white rabbits were studied. in the animals that had not received vitamin c treatment before thiopental...