BACKGROUND Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a significant cause of morbidity among patients undergoing general anaesthesia. The optimal strategy for prevention of PONV, however, remains unclear. This study compared two commonly used prophylactic strategies in high-risk, day-case, gynaecological surgery patients. METHODS We conducted a randomized trial comparing sevoflurane combined...

Intravenous drugs such as chloral hydrate, pentobarbital, and thiamylal were once commonly used for general anesthesia of horses but were often associated with prolonged or violent recoveries. When inhalant anesthetics such as halothane were introduced in the 1960s, the use of IV drugs for maintenance of anesthesia became less common. In recent years, interest in IV anesthetic techniques has be...

midazolam (dormicum) is a benzodiazepine in general anesthesia. midazolam is very suitable for premedication, induction, and maintenance pronounced anxiolytic action, sedation and amnesia, rapid onset of the action, virtually no impairment of cardiovascular or respiratory parameters in therapeutic doses, short duration of action, and excellent local tolerance are among its most important effect...

children undergoing general anesthesia for strabismus surgery have a higher incidence of postoperative vomiting than those receiving the same anaesthesia for other types of ambulatory surgical procedures. droperidol (0/0 75 mg/kg iv) and promethazine (0.05-1.0 mg/kg) were used in 100 children between 2-15 years old. promethazine which has sedative property, anticholinergic antihistaminic, antie...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of two different analgesia methods on postoperative pain of patients with moderate and severe craniocerebral injury who had an emergency operation. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this study, 64 patients who were treated in our hospital from January 2015 to January 2016 and diagnosed with acute craniocerebral injury, were consecutively selected. The patients were divi...

BACKGROUND During awake craniotomies, patients may either be awake for the entire duration of the surgical intervention (awake-awake-awake craniotomy, AAA) or initially sedated (asleep-awake-asleep craniotomy, SAS). OBJECTIVE To examine whether prior sedation in SAS may restrict brain mapping, we conducted neuropsychological tests in patients by means of a standardized anesthetic regimen comp...

Previous study showed that patients under general anesthesia (GA) had nasopharyngeal secretions on the face at the end of ocular surgery, especially in propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA), it might induce postoperative endophthalmitis. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective study to compare the incidence of endophthalmitis after ocular surgery under topical, inhalation anesthesi...

BACKGROUND Previous studies reported that, contrary to local anesthesia, cataract surgery under inhalational anesthesia is associated with substantial adrenergic activation. We tested the hypothesis that total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with propofol and alfentanil produces less or comparable adrenergic activation during cataract surgery than local anesthesia. METHODS Patients were randoml...

IMPORTANCE Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with propofol has been associated with reduced operative time, decreased perioperative risks, and decreased intraoperative blood loss compared with inhalational anesthesia (IA). During endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), reduced bleeding from the mucosal surfaces could improve visualization of the anatomy and decrease the risk of serious complications....

background despite controversies about the safest anesthetic technique for cesarean delivery in severely preeclamptic women, there is evidence that supports the use of spinal anesthesia in this group of patients. objectives this prospective randomized clinical trial was designed to determine the hemodynamic effects of low-dose spinal bupivacaine and the incidence of spinal anesthesia-associated...