The study was designed to investigate postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in low- and high-dose remifentanil regimens for total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) in adult female patients with American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status classification I undergoing local breast excision. Propofol and remifentanil 5 ng · mL(-1) (L group) or 10 ng · mL(-1) (H group) were administered f...

Intervention Surgeons (n=2) were allocated to music (20 patients) or no music (20 patients). Patients in the music group were given stereo headphones, a cassette player, and a choice of 22 types of music (including soft hits, classical guitar, chamber music, and folk music); patients listened to their selected music during the preoperative, surgical, and postoperative periods. All patients rece...

Chronic pain following thoracic surgery is common and associated with neuropathic symptoms, however, the proportion of patients with neuropathic pain in the immediate postoperative period is unknown. We aimed to determine the proportion of patients who have neuropathic symptoms and signs immediately after, and at three months following thoracic surgery. The study was designed as a prospective o...

Hypothermia and venous thrombosis can cause complications during perioperative and postoperative periods which can even be fatal to patients' conditions. Separative devices have currently been used to prevent those two problems. The device proposed here is to combine in a simple unobtrusive fashion the desirable effects of both temperature control and deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in perio...

Prolonged nasogastric suction and the administration of magnesium-free parenteral fluids produced magnesium deficiency in a patient in the postoperative period. The symptoms of magnesium deficiency are usually overshadowed by those of the primary disease and diagnosis usually rests on the demonstration of low blood concentrations of the ion. Magnesium replacement must be kept in mind when treat...

A 73-year-old man underwent left pneumonectomy for squamous cell lung carcinoma 3 years ago. The postoperative and follow-up periods were uneventful. A thrombus was detected in the left pulmonary artery stump during the last chest computed tomography (CT) scan. Anticoagulant treatment was applied: intravenous heparin for 3 days followed by oral warfarin. The follow-up chest CT examination revea...

background postoperative pain of dacryocystorhinostomy (dca) surgery is one of the serious issues to be considered. administrating opioids to relieve postoperative pain and facing their increasing side effects in eye surgeries, make the use of non-opioid drugs inevitable. objectives the present study examined the efficacy of pregabalin in alleviating the postoperative pain of dca surgery. patie...

We report 3 cases of bilateral cataract secondary to self-inflicted blunt eye trauma in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). All 3 children hit their foreheads, orbits, or globes repeatedly for long periods of time and developed cataracts. Clinicians must be aware of this phenomenon to diagnose ocular pathology early and to provide adequate education, counseling, and services to affect...

We propose a novel method that predicts facial nerve function (FNF) calculated from the drop and recovery of motor evoked potential (FMEP) amplitude ratio during surgery cerebellopontine angle tumors. enrolled 73 patients with tumor, used biphasic, constant current, suprathreshold stimulation (BCS) protocol to record FMEP orbicularis oris. measured intraoperative minimum-to-baseline (MBR), fina...