Abstract Background: Different adjuvant drugs have been used with local anesthetics in order to decrease the time of onset and elongate the duration and quality of regional blocks. This study was performed to study the effects of one of the adjuvants, verapamil, in supraclavicular block. Methods: In this double blinded clinical trial, we divided 60 ASA class I and II patients who were to under...

since many years it has been a general belief in iranian traditional medicine that unripe grape juice (verjuice) has lipid-lowering effect. this study was designed to test this hypothesis. fifty rabbits were selected and divided into 5 groups with 10 rabbits in each. group 1 had no supplemental diet. group 2 were fed 10 ml egg yolk daily and group 3 were fed 10 ml egg yolk plus 20 ml verjuice d...

The objective of this study is to identify the most suitable portions of the C1 coking coal seam in the North Block of the East-Parvadeh coal deposit (Central Iran), according to ash and sulfur values, using C-N fractal modeling. Based on the C-N log-log plots, different geochemical populations were evaluated based on their sulfur and ash content. They were then divided into five populations ea...

conclusions our study showed that dexmedetomidine had better effects on sensory and motor block duration and motor block onset in comparison with ketorolac, as lidocaine adjuvants in infraclavicular brachial plexus block were present in both protocols. however, the first time to analgesic request by ketorolac was longer than dexmedetomidine. objectives the purpose of this study was to examine t...

UNLABELLED In today's medico-legal environment, the importance of identification of the authors of notes in patient medical charts cannot be overemphasized. We evaluated three different techniques of signing patient notes, over a one month period, in order to determine which technique was the most effective in identifying the author of the note. Surgical NCHDs in our hospital were divided into ...

background digital nerve block is commonly performed by care providers in medical fields. this study compares the blocks in terms of effectiveness of anesthesia and pain. methods patients were divided into two groups. first group underwent digital block whereas 2nd group had transmetacarpal digital block. the subcutaneous ring block was performed by two injections of 3 ml of 2% lignocaine in a ...