Anesthesia options for upper extremity surgery include general and regional anesthesia. Brachial plexus blockade has several advantages including decreased hemodynamic instability, avoidance of airway instrumentation, and intra-, as well as post-operative analgesia. Prior to the availability of ultrasound the risks of complications and failure of regional anesthesia made general anesthesia a mo...

The goal of anesthesia for the expremature infant having hernia repair is to provide a safe anesthetic that will minimize intraand postoperative cardiorespiratory complications and have minimal long lasting effects on the developing infant. General (GA) and regional anesthesia, spinal anesthesia (SA) and caudal anesthesia (CA) are options well described in the anesthesia literature. The choice ...

Anterior iliac crest bone grafting is a well-established modality in the treatment of alveolar bone deficiencies. However, this procedure may also have considerable postoperative morbidity which is mostly related to general anesthesia. Postoperative pain-related complications can be managed by neuroaxial blockade techniques which provide adequate surgical analgesia and reduce postoperative pain...

BACKGROUND Esophageal stent placement is a minimally invasive procedure for treatment of esophageal strictures that cannot be treated with surgical procedure. It requires some forms of anesthesia. This procedure could be performed in the operating room and in the endoscopy unit. OBJECTIVE The study is aimed to report and evaluate the choices and techniques, drugs used and complications of ane...

BACKGROUND Precocious puberty treatment traditionally meant anxiety-provoking monthly depot injections until the advent of the annually implanted histrelin capsule. This study is the first to evaluate the surgical and anesthetic aspects of histrelin implantation for precocious puberty. METHODS All cases from one surgeon at a tertiary pediatric hospital were reviewed for patient age, anestheti...

Transcatheter closure of interatrial septal defects is guided by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), which requires general anesthesia in most cases. Using a new intracardiac echocardiographic (ICE) catheter may avoid endotracheal and esophageal intubation while using only local anesthesia. Forty-two patients underwent transcatheter interatrial septal defect closure; half of them underwent ...

BACKGROUND Striving to increase patient comfort and feasibility of performing abdominoplasties as outpatient procedures, investigators have been exploring alternative methods of anesthesia to safely avoid general anesthesia. These techniques may result in decreased narcotic administration, and decreased postoperative nausea and vomiting. The authors have added the use of preoperative local anes...

Objective: To compare and analyze the effect safety of double tube laryngeal mask endotracheal intubation general anesthesia in fast track for limb orthopaedic surgery children with cerebral palsy. Methods: 78 palsy undergoing orthopedic were randomly divided into group group, 39 cases each group. The perioperative hemodynamic indexes, related complications or adverse reaction rates two groups ...