INTRODUCTION Citrullinemia is a defect in the urea cycle that causes ammonia to accumulate in the blood. We describe the anesthetic management of a patient with citrullinemia, who experienced an unexpected 10 day hospital admission. CASE PRESENTATION We anesthetized a 3.5 year-old boy with citrullinemia who was scheduled for a dentistry procedure. Perioperative precautions included minimizing...

INTRODUCTION Pregnancy after organ transplantation is becoming increasingly common. However, reports of the anesthesia for such patients are rare. Heart transplant recipients are always accompanied with pathophysiological changes and present anesthesiologists with challenge. CASE DESCRIPTION We reported a case of anesthesia management of gravida undergoing cesarean section 10 years after card...

conclusions lidocaine does not have additive effects on duration and quality of spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine in those undergoing turp. results both study groups were comparable regarding the baseline characteristics. we did not find any difference between the two study groups regarding the duration of anesthetic block reaching the maximum level (p = 0.433) and duration of decreasing it to...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of a sequence of educational interventions in a one-day course on focused transthoracic echocardiography (FOTE) by anesthesia and critical care practitioners. DESIGN A prospective analysis of the educational data. SETTING Educational setting in two academic medical centers and a medical meeting workshop organized by one of these institutions. PARTICIPAN...

Introduction. Since , the selection of academic course is very important to job selection. A study for considering the anesthesia technician student’s knowledge about their course was necessary. This study was performed for this reason at Kashan university of medical sciences in 2002. Methods. For this descriptive study a questionnaire was designed in 2 sections: First section, included age, s...