BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Unilateral spinal anesthesia has advantages when used in outpatient basis. The objective of the present study was to compare unilateral spinal anesthesia with combined sciatic-femoral nerve block in unilateral orthopedic surgeries in outpatients. METHODS Sixty patients were randomly divided into two groups of 30 patients to receive 6 mg of hyperbaric or hypobaric bup...

Abstract Paprika is a perishable commodity either physically, mechanically, or microbiologically which greatly affects product quality during storage. A combination of pretreatments and low air pressure storage (hypobaric) can reduce metabolic rate possibly maintain better The purpose this study was to analyze the combined effects hypobaric on attributes paprika consisting skin color, soluble s...

Background: To study the efficacy of spinal analgesia with low concentration bupivacaine for anorectal surgery as compared to low dose bupivacaine epidural analgesia. Methods: This randomized control study was conducted on 60 adult patients undergoing elective anorectal surgery. The patients were randomly allocated into one of three groups of 20 patient’s each. The two treatment arms received s...

BACKGROUND Calcium overload has been implicated as a critical event in glutamate excitotoxicity associated neurodegeneration. Recently, zinc accumulation and its neurotoxic role similar to calcium has been proposed. Earlier, we reported that free chelatable zinc released during hypobaric hypoxia mediates neuronal damage and memory impairment. The molecular mechanism behind hypobaric hypoxia med...

Exposure to hypobaric hypoxia causes oxidative damage to male rat reproductive function. The aim of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of a blueberry extract (BB-4) in testis of rats exposed to hypobaric hypoxia. Morphometric analysis, cellular DNA fragmentation, glutathione reductase (GR), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities were evaluated. Our results showed that supplemen...

Multidimensional food perception is based mainly on gustatory and olfactory function. Recent research has demonstrated that hypobaric pressure impairs gustatory function and that background noise or distracting auditory stimulation impairs olfactory function. Using a hypobaric chamber, the odor identification, discrimination, and thresholds as well as taste identification and threshold scores w...

The site for placement of the epidural catheter was selected based on the underlying pathology as well as on each patients description of the pain dermatome. All patients were having pain between T1-T12 dermatome level. Epidural was performed either sitting or lateral position depending on patient comfort. Under aseptic precautions skin of epidural site was anaesthetized with 1% Xylocaine. A 20...