BACKGROUND Facilities and equipment are known to contribute to improved patient care and outcome. Hospitals for sub-specialized pediatric anesthetic service are routinely available worldwide. In Nigeria, such hospitals now exist. It is therefore relevant to study the facilities and equipment available for pediatric anesthetic service to measure the quality of care in a health institution. MAT...

background: our aim was to evaluate the effect of intravenous intralipid administration as an antidote on the poisoned patients' glasgow coma scale (gcs), hemodynamic parameters, arterial blood gas analysis, and routine metabolic profile tests (i.e. urea, glucose, sodium, and potassium) in the setting of non-local anesthetic drug overdose. methods: in this randomized controlled trial, a to...

Pentobarbital sodium (Somnopentyl) can induce surgical anesthesia with a strong hypnotic effect that causes loss of consciousness. Animals have been known to die during experimental surgery under anesthesia with Somnopentyl, causing it to be declared inadequate as a general anesthetic for single treatment. An anesthetic combination of 0.3 mg/kg medetomidine, 4.0 mg/kg midazolam and 5.0 mg/kg bu...

Some anesthetic agents administered during general anesthesia can cause heart rhythm disorders, mainly associated with autonomic imbalance. Off-target cardiac sodium channel blockade is considered the canonical mechanism behind cardiotoxicity. Lidocaine, most common local anesthetic, produces a transient loss of sensory, motor, and function when drug injected or applied close to neural tissues;...

Patients with a history of adverse reactions to a local anesthetic may often be incorrectly labeled as "allergic." Determining if a patient is allergic to a local anesthetic is essential in the selection of appropriate pain control techniques. Local anesthetic allergy testing may be performed safely and with reasonable accuracy by a knowledgeable practitioner. This paper presents guidelines for...