MethodS: Patients from 2011–2015 who underwent reduction mammaplasty were examined by anesthesia modality: GA alone and GA+ PVB adjunct. Demographic data, intra-operative and 6 hour post-operative opioid requirements, phase 1 and 2 pain scores, post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), and total anesthesia time were collected. and analyzed with contingency tables and comparisons of means and m...

Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is useful for staging of patients with melanoma. Although SLNB mostly performed under general anesthesia (GA), tumescence local (TLA) can also be used. However, less data are available regarding feasibility TLA. Here we present a post-operative follow-up 150 patients. Patients and Methods We prospectively analyzed from primary cutaneous malignant ass...

To assess the efficacy of thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) with or without general anesthesia (GA) versus GA in patients who underwent cardiac surgery, PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane online database, and Web of Science were searched with the limit of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) relevant to 'thoracic epidural anesthesia' and 'cardiac surgery'. Studies were identified and data were extrac...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness and safety of regional anesthesia (RA) and general anesthesia (GA) for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL). PATIENTS AND METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, and the Web of Knowledge databases were systematically searched to identify relevant studies. After literature screening and data extraction, a meta-analysis was performed using the RevMan 5...

Objective: This study aimed to examine the anesthesia management in patients who underwent radiological intervention interventional radiology unit. Materials and Methods: 536 unit between 2015-2021 were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic data, American Society of Anesthesiology classification, diagnoses, procedure, method, procedure times, anesthetic agents, intraoperative complications pos...

Abstract Background Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) defined as core temperature below 36.0 °C is a common complication of general anesthesia with prevalence up to 70%. Warming peripheral tissues prior induction reduces the central gradient, thereby minimizing heat loss due redistribution, after anesthesia. This study aimed evaluate effect prewarming on post-induction and incidence i...

THEORIES of general anesthetic mechanism have evolved from the unitary hypothesis of Claude Bernard in the nineteenth century to our current understanding of the multiple receptors and neural systems affected by anesthetic agents. As the scientific study of general anesthesia has progressed, it has become clear that early unifying theories of anesthetic mechanism, although elegant, do not accou...

introduction: response to tracheal tube during emergence of general anesthesia is a main concern. we aimed to compare the effect of remifentanil and lidocaine on response to tracheal tube during emergence of general anesthesia. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, we enrolled 80 consecutive patients with american society of anesthesiology (asa) physical status i–ii, who und...

a 25-yr-old iranian woman with incomplete abortion who was diagnosed and scheduled for dilatation and curettage procedures under general anesthesia. after premedication with fentanyl 50µg and midazolam 2mg and enough pre-oxygenation, anesthesia was induced by sodium thiopental 250 mg and succynilcholine 60 mg with mask ventilation. after completion of procedure, the patient had a period of lary...

results in the i-gel group, the success rate was 66.7% for placement on the first attempt, 16.7% for the second, and 3.33% for the third attempt. in the lma group, the success rates were 80.6% and 12.9% for the first and second attempts, respectively. failure in placement occurred in four cases in the i-gel and two cases in lma groups. the mean insertion time was not significantly different bet...