allergic reaction to local anesthetics is very rare and most of the reported cases are due to ester local anesthetics. this case presents a parturient who experienced cardiac arrest due to hypersensitivity reaction to lidocaine after epidural injection for cesrarean section.

UNLABELLED The risk of wound infections is inversely related to subcutaneous tissue oxygen tension. General anesthesia increases local blood flow by direct vasodilation and central inhibition of thermoregulatory vasoconstriction. Epidural anesthesia can increase perfusion in blocked regions by decreasing sympathetic tone. We therefore tested the hypothesis that epidural anesthesia increases tis...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hypothermia is likely to develop faster during spinal anesthesia than epidural anesthesia. A natural consequence of the rapid temperature decrease during spinal anesthesia is that the shivering threshold will be reached sooner and that more shivering will be required to prevent further hypothermia. We tested the hypotheses that the onset of hypothermia is more rapid an...

BACKGROUND Systematic review which analyzes the impact of different anesthesia on intraoperative blood glucose levels of diabetes patients. METHODS We searched Medline (via PubMed), Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Wangfang, CNKI, and CBM database through June 2016, included in randomized controlled trial (RCT), about different anesthesia on intraoperative blood glucose levels in pat...

Objective: To investigate the clinical outcomes of three anesthesia methods in gynecologic laparoscopic surgery. Methods: 300 patients performed gynecologic laparoscopic surgery from January, 2014 to January, 2016 in this hospital were divided into 3 groups by random number method as general anesthesia group, continuous epidural anesthesia group and general anesthesia combined with continuous e...

OBJECTIVES To study the efficacy of epidural versus general anesthesia on length of stay, patient recovery and anesthetic-related complications in patients undergoing endoscopic preperitoneal herniorrhaphy. METHODS One hundred sixty-seven consecutive patients undergoing endoscopic preperitoneal herniorrhaphy from July, 1994, to August, 1995, were retrospectively studied. A total of 243 hernio...

Subdural anesthesia, although rare, is a significant complication of epidural anesthesia. This case report presents 28-year-old female patient who developed sudden unconsciousness following anesthesia administration for labor pain. Despite no evident contraindications to she lost consciousness shortly after the initial test dose, leading an emergency cesarean section under general The neonate s...

local anesthetic solutions are frequently mixed to take advantage of the useful properties of each drug but the medical literature is surprisingly deficient in well controlled studies about the onset and duration of action of these mixtures for epidural anesthesia. a total of 32 patients scheduled for elective operation were enrolled in this prospective randomized controlled study; in group i, ...

conclusions the addition of tramadol to epidural 2% lidocaine offers advantages in cesarean section. results in the lt100 group, onset of complete sensory and motor blockade at t6 was less than in the two other groups, but the highest level of sensory blockade and two segment regression and duration of motor blockades between the lt50 and lt100 groups were not significantly different, although ...