Cardiopulmonary bypass and full median sternotomy have been recognized as major morbidity factors in cardiac surgery. Additional morbidity factors are general anesthesia and endotracheal intubation. Over the past several years high-thoracic epidural anesthesia (hTEA) has emerged as a potentially beneficial supplement to general anesthesia in the care of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We r...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate whether patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) developed unexpected perioperative complications. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Academic medical center. MEASUREMENTS The records of 13 patients with POTS, who underwent surgical procedures during general anesthesia, were studied. Details of disease management, anesthetic indu...

This is a comparative study between two groups, one of healthy children and the other of children with cerebral palsy, which underwent dental treatment under general anesthesia at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona. The purpose of the study was to compare and determine oral pathology, frequency, severity and postoperative complications in pediatric patients with and without an underlying disea...

The aim of this study was to compare thoracoscopic surgery for spontaneous pneumothorax under epidural and/or local anesthesia (ELA) with that under general anesthesia and prove the feasibility and safety of thoracoscopic surgery under ELA for spontaneous pneumothorax. Relevant studies were searched in five databases from their date of publication to June 2016. We collected and analyzed the dat...

BACKGROUNDS Various methods were defined to prepare patients for the pilonidal sinus surgery including local, spinal, and general anesthesia. But there is no powerful evidence to differ these procedures. Therefore, in the current study, we compared local and general anesthesia in the pilonidal sinus surgery. METHODS & MATERIAL in this clinical trial (IRCT201312031786N5) study 60 patients with...

An anaphylactic reaction during general anesthesia may cause fatal complications. Perioperative anaphylaxis can occur in response to different medications. To our knowledge, pyridostigmine or combination of pyridostigmine with glycopyrrolate-induced anaphylactic reaction during general anesthesia has not been reported. We report a case of a suspected anaphylactic reaction to these drugs. To red...

The occurrences of pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum are rare, but considered to be potentially life-threatening conditions in patients undergoing functional endoscopic sinus surgery under general anesthesia. Tracheobronchial rupture may results in serious complications, such as pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum. It may occur accidentally by endotracheal tube when the patient's neck is flexed...

the aim of this study is to find causes of cardiac disrhytmias during ophthalmic surgeries in patients under general anesthesia with no history of heart disease in iran’s educational hospitals. this was a univarient study. a sample of 250 patients selected randomly. data were gathered by four resources: interview, patient’s documents, kind of treatment selected by anesthesiologist and monitorin...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of two injections doses of magnesium sulfate for controlling and reducing hemodynamic changes caused by laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation in pregnant women who were candidates for caesarean section with general anesthesia. methods: in this controlled randomized double-blind clinical trial, 165 pregnant women who were candidates...

to study the role of preoperative intravenous magnesium sulphate in decreasing post-cesarean pain and opioid requirement during first 24hrs.in a double blind randomized clinical trial, prior to induction of general anesthesia, fifty elective cesarean candidates were randomly assigned to one of the two groups of placebo or magnesium sulfate. after surgery visual analogue scale (vas) and infused ...