background: spinal anesthesia is usually applied for urologic surgeries. postdural puncture headache (pdph) is among common complications which has not been reduced during last years despite all advances in the field of medicine. therapeutic effects of conventional therapy (paracetamol and novaphen) are being compared to intravenous meperidine in patients suffering from pdph. methods: one hundr...

OBJECTIVE Anesthesia has been shown to suppress immune function, which can negatively affect the treatment of patients with various tumors. Here, we assessed two different anesthesia methods, general versus combined regional/general, in treatment of benign ovarian tumor by laparoscopic therapy. METHODS Out of 160 patients with benign ovarian tumors treated by laparoscopic therapy, 80 received...

In pediatric anesthesiology in surgical interventions various methods of combined anesthesia with a combination inhalation, regional, and intravenous are used. The provision high-quality anesthetic support newborns infants during treatment congenital defects is complicated by risk factors, concomitant diseases different pathology conditions. study factors their influence on the functional indic...

The term “total intravenous anesthesia” refers to the preservation of an anesthetic plane with use injectable anesthetic, a sedative that is often given in intermittent boluses. tendency have recurrent unprovoked seizures known as epilepsy. Its prevalence ranges from 0.5% 1%. highest incidence rates are those anatomical or developmental brain abnormalities, well at extremes age. most common tri...

Forty four patients scheduled for elective surgery of short to moderate duration (< 90 minutes) were recruited into this study. Anaesthesia was induced with intravenous propofol 2.5mg/kg and maintained with continuous intravenous infusion of pre-mixed propofol and normal saline containing 2mg/ml of propofol. Suxamethonium 1mg/kg was used to facilitate endotracheal intubation. No long-acting mus...

Hip fractures in elderly patients can lead to lifethreatening complications and increased mortality1,2. The geriatric population in Taiwan, comprising almost 10% of the whole population in 2008, is progressively increasing3. Although recovery is slow, surgery is generally very effective for the repair of hip fractures. General and spinal anesthesia are the predominant forms of anesthesia employ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS) III study tested the effect of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) alone when compared with intravenous tPA followed by endovascular therapy and collected cost data to assess the economic implications of the 2 therapies. This report describes the factors affecting the costs of the initial hospitalization for ac...

BACKGROUND The current prevalence of hospital-acquired infections and evolving amplification of bacterial resistance are major public health concerns. A heightened awareness of intraoperative transmission of potentially pathogenic bacterial organisms may lead to implementation of effective preventative measures. METHODS Sixty-one operative suites were randomly selected for analysis. Sterile i...