BACKGROUND The most common method of anesthesia for cesarean section is spinal anesthesia, and postdural puncture headache (PDPH) remains a major complication of this procedure. Nowadays, PDPH is a major cause of morbidity in parturients after spinal anesthesia. This headache is the third most popular reason for claims against anesthesiologists in obstetrics. The position after spinal anesthesi...

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate operative benefits of artificial pnuemothorax in thoracoscopic esophagectomy in the left lateral decubitus position. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed short-term surgical outcomes including learning curve of 60 consecutive patients who underwent thoracoscopic esophagectomy with artificial pnuemothorax in the left lateral decubitus position between Apr...

To the Editor: Skin ulcerations have occasionally been reported as adverse drug reactions.1D'Epiro S. Salvi M. Luzi A. et al.Drug cutaneous side effect: focus on skin ulceration.Clin Ter. 2014; 165: e323-329PubMed Google Scholar However, to our knowledge, no pharmacovigilance study has performed, and little is known about drug-related ulcers.We therefore performed combined disproportionality an...

INTRODUCTION Adequate blood oxygenation and ventilation/perfusion matching should be main goal of anaesthetic and intensive care management. At present, one of the methods of improving gas exchange restricted by ventilation/perfusion mismatching is independent ventilation with two ventilators. Recently, however, a unique device has been developed, enabling ventilation of independent lungs in 1:...

In this study, we evaluated the effect of body position (erect, supine, and two decubitus positions) on gas exchange (alveolar-arterial PO2 difference [AaPO2]) in 35 patients who had various degrees of lung collapse roentgenographically caused by unilateral central airway lesions, with special reference to the difference in AaPO2 between two lateral decubitus positions. The patients were divide...

To the Editor:—We read with great interest the letter from Woehlck et al. and the accompanying response from Arrow Inc., (Reading, PA) concerning problems with removing the Arrow FlexTip epidural catheter. We wish to underline the importance of this topic with our own experience. In a woman (65 yr, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status III, 167 cm, 72 kg) a thoracic epidural cat...

To the Editor:—We read with great interest the letter from Woehlck et al. and the accompanying response from Arrow Inc., (Reading, PA) concerning problems with removing the Arrow FlexTip epidural catheter. We wish to underline the importance of this topic with our own experience. In a woman (65 yr, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status III, 167 cm, 72 kg) a thoracic epidural cat...

BACKGROUND Lateral decubitus position is poorly tolerated by heart failure patients. STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluated pulmonary function and lung diffusion in heart failure patients in the following five body positions: sitting, prone, supine, and left and right decubitus. SETTING Heart failure unit of a university hospital. SUBJECTS We studied 14 chronic heart failure patients in New York H...

aqueous (hydrophilic) and chloroform (lipophilic) extracts of nine medicinal plants currently used in traditional medicine, in egypt, to treat some gastrointestinal tract (git) disorders were tested for their gastro-protective effect against the incidence of peptic ulcer. indomethacin-induced ulcer in a rat model was used for this testing. mentha microphylla, brassica oleracea capitata (cabbage...