Background: One of the most common and choice surgical procedures for most elective surgeries are laparoscopy performed preferably under general anesthesia. Objectives: In this study cases that underwent laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy with general anesthesia were compared with those who were underwent spinal anesthesia. Patients and Methods: In this prospective analytic study, 60 patients unde...

conclusions subhypnotic doses of midazolam or propofol are effective in the prevention of nausea and vomiting during and after cesarean section with spinal anesthesia and does not significantly influence hemodynamic of the patients. results the incidence of nausea, retching, and vomiting was significantly higher in the control group compared to propofol and midazolam groups. overall, ponv (post...

Background: Spinal anesthesia has become an alternative to general anesthesia. However, spinal the most common side effects including, bradycardia and hypotension. The aim of this study was determine relationship between changes in inferior vena cava index (delta index) mean arterial pressure Methods: This observational pre-post test thirty-two patients who received (inferior collectibility cav...

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...

introduction: apgar score evaluation is a common method to evaluate physiological changes of newborns and can help to predict the neonatal life chance. this study was conducted to determine the apgar score of newborns with two methods of vaginal delivery and spinal anesthesia and its relationship with the associated factors in gorgan health care facility. materials and methods: a cross-sectiona...

objective: to compare maternal complications and labor outcome in obese and non-obese women. materials and methods: it is a retrospective comparative study conducted at the department of obstetrics and gynecology, unit 1, civil hospital, karachi from december 2008 to december 2009. a sample size of 220 gravid women is selected by non probability convenience sampling technique. in these 110 obes...

Postdural puncture headache (PDPH) was described immediately after the first spinal anesthesia (SA), when Bier himself suffered from a debilitating headache and attributed it to cerebrospinal fluid leakage through the dural rent. With better understanding of the pathophysiology of PDPH, and use of smaller bore needles for SA, the incidence to PDPH has gone down. Numerous risk factors for PDPH h...

Data on factors contributing to the development of postoperative cardiac complications (myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmias) in non-cardiosurgical operations are presented. Hypotension and blood loss usually distinguished among such factors, but less attention is paid role neuroendocrine reactions, particular, hyperactivation sympathoadrenal system; protective effect anesthesia, r...

background during abdominal surgery under regional anesthesia, nausea may happen due to several contributing factors. this study compared the effects of ondansetron and dexamethasone on nausea and vomiting under spinal anesthesia. methods one hundred and twenty patients of 15 to 35 years old with asa class i and ii were enrolled. before administering either ondansetron or dexamethasone, blood p...