there are many factors contributing to success of regional anesthesia. patients’ attitude toward spinal anesthesia is one of the most important of these factors. this is a descriptive study performed on 100 healthy parturient selected for elective cesarean section in alzahra obstetric hospital,tabriz, iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate patients’ attitude and their knowledge about spina...

background & aim:the quality of communication between midwives and parturient women is a determinant of maternal satisfaction with midwifery care. therefore, this study was conducted to determine the communication skills of midwives at maternity wards of mashhad teaching hospitals in 2014.   methods:in this descriptive study, 49 midwives, working at mashhad teaching hospitals, were randomly sel...

Neuraxial analgesia and anesthesia are routinely administered to the parturient. A devastating, albeit rare, complication of neuraxial anesthesia is spinal or epidural hematoma, and primarily occurs in patients with disorders of hemostasis. A parturient with a clinically active coagulation disorder, or someone with a history of easy bruising and/or bleeding, is considered to have an absolute co...

A 26 year old woman presented with monocular elevation paresis of the right eye, contralateral paresis of downward gaze, and subtle bilateral ptosis. Magnetic resonance imaging disclosed a unilateral embolic infarction restricted to the mesodiencephalic junction involving the left paramedian thalamus. Preserved vertical oculocephalic movements and intact Bell's phenomenon suggested a supranucle...