Patients attending accident and casualty departments often present anaesthetic problems. They are usually unaccompanied, have recently had a meal and may be shocked. A full stomach means a delay of several hours before a general anaesthetic can be administered. Various measures have been used to overcome these difficulties, for example Pearson (1960) advocated the use of intravenous pethidine. ...

CONTEXT The increasing prevalence and associated sociodemographic disparities of morbid obesity are serious public health concerns. Bariatric surgical procedures provide greater and more durable weight reduction than behavioral and pharmacological interventions for morbid obesity. OBJECTIVE To examine trends for elective bariatric surgical procedures, patient characteristics, and in-hospital ...

I do not function primarily as a surgeon, p.ediatrician, or psychiatrist. I do, however, have considerable experience with minor surgery in children and am pleased to have this opportunity to share my approach with you. The reader will quickly note the paucity of references, reflecting in part the dearth of suitable sources and in part my own personal preferences. Also appreciate that rarely is...

BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery has proved to be an effective strategy in treating obesity. However, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of 3 most common bariatric surgery procedures, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), sleeve gastrectomy (SG), and laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB), reported inconsistent results. We performed a systematic review and network meta-analysis to synthesize evide...

The explicit goal is to minimize procedural differences between young and adult animals (see Simons and Carvell, 1989) Anesthesia was induced with isoflurane and maintained with halothane in 50/50 N2/O2 mixture. For P13-15 and P20-22 pups, initial halothane concentration was 2% which was then reduced to 1.5% after approximately 3 minutes to avoid respiratory depression. For P27-29 and P65 anima...

This review addresses the range of treatments suggested to be of contemporary value in the treatment of constipation with critical evaluation of efficacy data, complications, patient selection, controversies and areas for future research. Resection-rectopexy, stapled prolapsectomy, mesh procedures, rectocele repair, stapled rectal resection and anterograde enema are among the reported procedure...

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Contemporary imaging modalities can now provide the surgeon with high quality three- and four-dimensional images depicting not only normal anatomy and pathology, but also vascularity and function. A key component of image-guided surgery (IGS) is the ability to register multi-modal pre-operative images to each other and to the patient. The other important component of IGS is the ability to track...

background: red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. we aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...