BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A prospective, randomized study was designed to compare the maternal and neonatal effects of conventional epidural anesthesia and combined spinal epidural anesthesia (CSE) for Cesarean section in severe preeclamptic patients. Additionally, two strategies in the prophylactic management of hypotension in severe preeclamptic patients were evaluated: fluid preloading or pr...

BACKGROUND Subarachnoid block with local anesthetics and opioids enable efficacious spinal anesthesia because of their synergistic effect and permit the use of low-dose local anesthetics, which results in a stable hemodynamic state. The purpose of this study was to describe the cardiovascular effects of spinal anesthesia with low-dose bupivacaine and sufentanil on patients with coronary artery ...

Spinal anaesthesia is associated with certain complications such as severe hypotension, post-spinal headache, meningitis, audiovisual disturbances and some time transient or permanent neurological damage. Now-a-days spinal anaesthesia is in demand again due to cost effectiveness, rapidity and predictability of effects and decreased rate of complications. A case of a young woman who received spi...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC According to recent government statistics report [1], people over 65 years of age comprised 11.8% of the Korean population in the year 2012 and will comprise more than 15% of the total Korean population before the year 2020. In addition, the percentage of the population aged over 65 years is expected to double to ~32.3% by the year 2040 compared ...

Background and Aims: Perfusion index, which assesses perfusion dynamics is used as a non‑invasive method in spinal anesthesia cases to detect the occurrence of hypotension. A Index value after hypotension common can be assessed. Methods: In this prospective double-blind observational study, 100 parturients were included. Baseline was recorded carried out with Injection bupivacaine 0.5% (hyperba...

A 45-year-old female patient visited the hospital complaining of severe sudden headache and posterior neck pain. The patient did not have any traumatic history or abnormal neurologic finding. The patient had sudden quadriplegia and sensory loss. Cervical spine MRI scan was taken, and the compatible findings to acute epidural hematoma were shown. The emergency operation was performed. After the ...