background: postoperative shivering is an important and troublesome condition during recovery from general anesthesia.  corticosteroids have been recommended to facilitate recovery and diminish shivering after cardiac surgery.  previous studies recommended 0.6 mg/kg dexamethasone for reducing postoperative shivering in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.    objective: to test this assertion, w...

Objective: To compare romifidine and xylazine premedication in ketamine anesthesia of the dog. Design: Experimental design. Animals: Fifteen cross-breed dogs. Procedures: Animals randomly allocated into three groups of five. Group G1 premedicated by xylazine 1 mg/kg, G2 romifidine 40 µg/ kg and G3 romifidine 80 µg/ kg intramuscularly. All animals premedicated with atropine 0.02 mg/kg subc...

background: etomidate and propofol are common anesthetic agents. previous studies say that etomidate can be used in patients with limited hemodynamic reserve and propofol can lead to more hemodynamic instabilities. th is study was performed to explore the cardiovascular response during the induction of anesthesia with etomidate or for comparison, propofol in elective orthopedic surgeries. mater...

children undergoing general anesthesia for strabismus surgery have a higher incidence of postoperative vomiting than those receiving the same anaesthesia for other types of ambulatory surgical procedures. droperidol (0/0 75 mg/kg iv) and promethazine (0.05-1.0 mg/kg) were used in 100 children between 2-15 years old. promethazine which has sedative property, anticholinergic antihistaminic, antie...