BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cardiac arrest (CA) incidence and causes during anesthesia are variable and difficult to be compared due design variations of major studies. This survey aimed at evaluating all intra and postoperative CA from 1996 to 2002 at a tertiary teaching hospital to determine CA incidence and causes. METHODS The prospective incidence of CA during 40,941 anesthesias was identif...

background: the postoperative shivering is one of the common complications of anesthesia after surgery and in the recovery room, which can cause the increased systemic blood pressure, oxygen consumption, heart rate and the cardiac arrhythmias among patients. due to the variety of drugs used in general anesthesia, and necessity of choosing the effective intravenous and the inhaled drugs to reduc...

background: pain control during and after surgeries can reduce subsequent complications, improve the recovery period of the patient after the surgery and immediately after discharge from the hospital, and shorten the length of stay in the hospital. objectives: the present research aimed to study the relationship between the depth of anesthesia and severity of pain after general anesthesia. meth...

Myocardial infarction and stroke are known complications of general anesthesia, resulting in the effort to perform carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for high-risk patients under local/regional anesthesia. However, there few data supporting this practice. The ACS-NSQIP CEA targeted database was used identify all who underwent non-emergent from 2012 2021. Only were selected. High-risk defined as those...

BACKGROUND Maternal complications related to anesthesia are low in comparison with the results from obstetric factors in developing countries. The purposes of the present study were to determine the incidence of maternal mortality related to anesthesia, to analyze the causes and to suggest measures to improve anesthetic safety for the parturients. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study was par...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The use of regional anesthesia, either alone or as an adjunct to general anesthesia, is at an all-time high. Demonstrated benefits include reduced side effects, more efficient use of facilities and enhanced patient satisfaction with the improved postoperative pain relief. New advances in equipment, techniques and medications have been incorporated over the past 10 years, and e...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This editorial review summarizes the current anesthetic management of patients with anterior mediastinal masses. RECENT FINDINGS With increased appreciation of the correct intraoperative management of these cases severe intraoperative respiratory or cardiovascular collapse is less likely to occur during general anesthesia. Maintenance of spontaneous ventilation is the anesth...

The relative merits of general vs regional anesthesia for patients undergoing major vascular surgery has been the subject of debate over the past decade. Previous studies of regional vs general anesthesia often were deficient in experimental design and, therefore, did not produce definitive answers. Some of these deficiencies related to non-standardized, poorly conducted, and/or described gener...

Percutaneous hearing devices are a type of semi-implantable systems. They translate the sound into vibrations which conducted by skull to inner ear. The implant is embedded in surgery performed under local or general anesthesia. processor being attached directly implant. objective this study analyze surgical complications that occur after implantation.