OBJECTIVE Of many critical care regimens, the management of physiological disturbances in serum is particularly drawing an attention in conjunction with patient outcome. The aim of this study was to assess the association of serum biochemical markers with mortality in head trauma patients with decompressive craniotomy. METHODS Ninety six patients with acute subdural hematoma underwent decompr...

Anesthesia result in a variety of metabolic and endocrine responses, but conventional wisdom maintains that anesthetic technique has little long-term effect on patient outcomes. There is accumulating evidence that, on contrary, anesthetic management may in fact exert a number of longer-term effects in postoperative outcome. Here, we review the most topical aspects of anaesthetic management whic...

ON examining the charts of patients in any surgical ward a rapid rise of temperature is often noticeable, beginninig usuall) a few hours after operation and lasting one to five days. This pyrexia follows the majority of operations-not merely in cases suffering from some inflammatory malacdy requiring operation, but notably in non-infected cases. For the purpose of writing this paper I have inve...

It is by no means uncommon for the physician to be asked to see a patient who has recently undergone operation, and to find that there has been some complication in the chest. The possible complications are fairly numerous and their treatment differs considerably. It is also a fact that many of the more serious complications can be prevented, or the duration of incapacity can be considerably sh...

background & aim: nowadays, new methods related to pain management have emerged. however, it has been reported in studies that post-operative pain management is inadequate. the purpose of this study was determined to pain levels of the patients after gynecologic surgery and nursing interventions. methods & materials: this descriptive study was undertaken as a multicenter study in the gynecologi...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of sub-tenon block (preemptive analgesia) following general anesthesia and before the beginning of scleral buckling and cryopexy in retinal detachment (rd) surgery on decreasing intra- and post-operative complications. methods: sixty eight patients scheduled for rd surgical repair with asa (american society of anesthesiologists) class і or ii were enrolled in t...

INTRODUCTION Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH) has become a widely used approach for women with endometrial cancer and has replaced laparotomy. It has been questioned if the increased costs are justified by superior surgical outcomes. The aim of the present study was to examine the frequency, types and severity of post-operative complications after total abdominal hysterectomy (...

Tetraparesis is more often a clinical feature of profound hypokalaemia 1, 2 than hyperkalaemia. Neurological features ofhyperkalaemia are rarely seen in clinical practice, as they are precluded by cardiotoxic complications such as arrhythmias. However, patients may develop flaccid paralysis of skeletal muscle with areflexia mimicking symptoms of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.3...

(A paper read before the Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists). '"pHERE are not many subjects in medicine more fruitful • * • than anaesthesia for stimulating discussion. Perhaps this is because in no branch of our science is practice more varied, and it is an interesting fact that with this variety of method the results obtained by competent anaesthetists are very much the same ! But put yoursel...