Correspondence: José A Abreu Ophthalmology Department, University Hospital of the Canary Islands, Ctra. Ofra S/N La Cuesta, 38320 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Email [email protected] Dear editor We read with interest the recently published article “Superior subconjunctival anesthesia versus retrobulbar anesthesia for manual small-incision cataract surgery in a residency train...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Anesthesiologist-patient relationships are established preoperatively and intraoperatively. These are opportunities for providing correct information about anesthesia/anesthesiologists, thereby improving outcomes. The aim here was to evaluate patients' perceptions about anesthesiologists before anesthesia and to identify whether the anesthetic care would change such percep...

introduction: hearing loss after surgery is reported rarely. its prevalence rate is different and reported to be between 3-92%. hearing loss is often subclinical and not diagnosed without audiometry. the aim of this study was to determine rate of hearing changes after spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery with spinal anesthesia. methods: in this descriptive study, forty male patients...

background: cardiovascular disease is an important non-obstetric cause of maternal and fetal /neonatal morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. for a pregnant woman with cardiac disease, the potential inability of the maternal cardiovascular system to contend with normal pregnancy-induced physiologic changes may produce deleterious effects on both mother and fetus. to determine the most freque...

materials and methods we divided 30 male wistar rats to three (n = 10) groups; including cr, wh and sham (water only) groups. each group was administered (by gavage) the supplements for an intermediate dosage during 25 days. after this period, they became anesthetized using a ketamine-xylazine (kx) and their time to anesthesia and analgesia, and total sleep time were recorded. results data were...

children, similar to adults, are required to fast before general anesthesia in order to reduce  the volume and acidity of stomach contents. it is thought that npo regulations reduce the risk of regurgitation and aspiration of gastric contents during surgery. recent developments have encouraged a shift from the standard 'nil by mouth from midnight' fasting policy to more relaxed regime...

conclusions the results of this study showed that ketamine and pethidine are both equally effective in the reduction of postoperative shivering. results there was no statistically significant difference between the shivering intensity in both groups. only regarding the shivering in the first minute after entering the recovery room, there was an obvious difference between ketamine and pethidine ...