Shoulder surgery has radically evolved within the last 70 years, from a marginal orthopedic sub-specialty to an area of great research and advancement; consequently, anesthetic techniques have undergone important development. In fact, wide variety strategies emerged, provide anesthesia post-operative analgesia: general (GA), regional (RA), or combined GA RA. A literature review on online databa...

Background and Aim: The aim of the present study was to compare effect volatile induction maintenance anesthesia (VIMA) target controlled infusion (TCI) on cardiovascular stability in New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade II patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Patients methods: In study, 90 were randomized into two groups depending whether they received VIMA or TCI. rate, sys...

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. Due to the fear of pain associated with dental injections, some people avoid, cancel, or fail to appear for dental appointments. Pain and anxiety control are among the most important aspects in local anesthetic administration in dental practice. Administ...

Background : Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a procedure for diagnosis and treatment of GI abnormalities. It is one of the most common interventional medical procedures performed throughout the world. The authors studied anesthetic data as a basis for further research. Objective : To report and evaluate the choices and techniques, drug usuage and complications of anesthesia for GI endoscopy from ...

The awake brain surgery is an innovative approach in the treatment of tumors in the functional areas of the brain. There are various anesthetic techniques for awake craniotomy (AC), including asleep-awake-asleep technique, monitored anesthesia care, and the recent introduced awake-awake-awake method. We describe our first experience with anesthetic management for awake craniotomy, which was a c...

The authors report the case of a 4-year-old boy who required anesthetic care during laser excision of respiratory papillomatosis. The perioperative issues surrounding this disease process are discussed including anesthetic induction in the patient with a compromised airway, maintenance anesthetic techniques, methods used for ventilation during laser surgery of the upper airway, and infectious d...

Abdominal surgery in infants and children presents a number of unique anesthetic challenges that are reviewed in this chapter. The first section consists of a discussion of anesthetic concerns for intraabdominal procedures, especially in neonates and small infants.This discussion is general in nature, and the reader should remember that there exists a wide spectrum of patient conditions and sur...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Myocardial protection defines the set of strategies aiming at attenuating the intensity of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury during heart surgery and its harmful consequences on myocardial function. A better understanding of pathophysiological phenomena related to ischemia-reperfusion events and of the anesthetic-induced heart protection has given to the anesthesi...

Introduction Epidural blockade in children continues to grow in popularity with increasing applications in the operating room and beyond. In infants and children, epidural anesthesia is most commonly performed in conjunction with general anesthesia as a means of providing postoperative analgesia or as a combined general-regional anesthetic technique to limit the requirements for general anesthe...

this case report describes the anesthetic management and ventilation technique in the surgical treatmentof traumatic diaphragmatic hernia in a dog. a 5-month-old 8-kg female terrier with a history of car accidentwas presented for femoral fracture repair. before anesthetic induction, marked tachypnea and dyspnea werenoted. diaphragmatic hernia was diagnosed based upon radiographic and ultrasonog...