Living kidney donation has been accepted increasingly as a result of growth in the number of end-stage renal disease patients awaiting organ. In this aspect using grafts from marginal donors such as with advanced age is increasing in worldwide practice and also in Turkey. Therefore, anesthetic management of donors is particularly important. We herein report the anesthetic management of an 87-ye...

Sedative and analgesic agents are frequently used for procedural sedation. Titration of anesthetic doses should be done cautiously and the patients should be continuously monitored. So far, an ideal intravenous anesthetic agent is none [1,2]. A combination of ketamine and propofol has several ideal anesthetic properties. Several clinical studies of the use of ketofol have been evaluated. To dat...

Introduction: Although patients do not experience sever pain after laparoscopic surgery, most of them experience acute or chronic pain afterward. While conventional pain killers including NSAID and narcotics in laparoscopic surgery have specific side effects, their application is inevitable. This study compares the efficacy of local anesthetic drugs and conventional pain killers in post-operati...

Russell-Silver syndrome (RSS) is a rare genetic malformation characterized by the growth of 2-year-old male child with RSS who underwent hip spica surgery under general anesthesia. The patient had history mild developmental delay, failure to gain weight, and frequent vomiting. Anesthetic implications RSS, including airway management, glucose homeostasis, hypothermia, pharmacological considerati...

The term “total intravenous anesthesia” refers to the preservation of an anesthetic plane with use injectable anesthetic, a sedative that is often given in intermittent boluses. tendency have recurrent unprovoked seizures known as epilepsy. Its prevalence ranges from 0.5% 1%. highest incidence rates are those anatomical or developmental brain abnormalities, well at extremes age. most common tri...

The authors report the case of a 4-year-old boy who required anesthetic care during laser excision of respiratory papillomatosis. The perioperative issues surrounding this disease process are discussed including anesthetic induction in the patient with a compromised airway, maintenance anesthetic techniques, methods used for ventilation during laser surgery of the upper airway, and infectious d...

The anesthetic management of pheochromocytoma is complicated and challenging. However, preoperative pharmacologic preparation has greatly improved perioperative outcome, and modern anesthetic drugs combined with advanced monitoring contribute to intraoperative stability. There is great regional and international variation in which intraoperative anesthetic technique is employed and there are li...

Children are by nature apprehensive and do perceive pain as adults do. But young children, do not always or readily complain vocally of discomfort. When chronic discomfort is punctuated by acute distress of diagnostic or therapeutic intrusions, relief may be obtained for some children by various analgesic-anesthetic agents. Although the ideal 'intravenous' analgesic-anesthetic agent is yet to b...

Background Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is characterized by an adverse reaction to volatile anesthetic, and/or succinylcholine. Typically, following an adverse anesthetic reaction or positive family history, patients will undergo caffeine-halothane contracture (CHCT) and/ or genetic testing. However, sometimes patients with no individual or family history of anesthetic reaction are referred for ...

Given the associated intricacies associated with surgery and anesthetic management, the care of conjoined twins requires a multidisciplinary approach. Due to the complexity of these patients, anesthetic care may be required for radiologic imaging, placement of tissue expanders, insertion of permanent or temporary vascular access devices, and definitive separation surgery. We present a case of p...