preoperative diagnosis of an airway obstruction should alert anesthetist to a potentially life threatening situation. intubation of the trachea while the patient is awa- ke or tra~heostomy under local anesthesia is a most useful technique and safty method in induction of anesthesia where problems are anticipated during the induction or g e ne r a l anesthesia.

Patients are normally thought to have recovered from general anaesthesia within a few hours after day-case surgery. Previous recovery studies using objective psychometric tests showed a return to baseline values within this period. Nevertheless, patients are advised about what activities they should not undertake in the subsequent 24 h because it is feared that the residual anaesthetic effects ...

Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) was established to promote patient safety by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in July 2010. It covers various medical hospitals/institutes and National Health Programmes across the country. India is coordinating with various national and international programmes to be a part of international drug monitoring and to monitor...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY There is growing interest in the UK towards increasing treatment options for women undergoing abortion and miscarriage. Such options include home medical treatment and surgery under local anaesthesia (LA). This study aimed to gauge views of women undergoing abortion and treatment for miscarriage at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh towards medical treatment at home, and s...

Concentrations of acute phase proteins (CRP: C-reactive protein, albumin) change during surgery. We investigated the acute phase response to circumcision and the effects of anaesthesia on this response. The children were divided into four groups; group 1 (intratracheal general anaesthesia, n=40), group 2 (general anaesthesia with mask, n=20), group 3 (ketamine, n=20), group 4 (local anaesthesia...

In the preface to this edition the author says, "The surgical as well as all other arts are most effective when presented with the greatest simplicity. This book attempts to eliminate the nonessential." The enthusiasm which this statement arouses is somewhat dampened on finding that the early chapters contain several purely facetious remarks, quotations of such favorite phrases of the author as...

Local anesthesia forms the major part of pain-control techniques in dentistry. The prevention and elimination of pain during dental treatment has benefited patients, their doctors and dental hygienists, enabling the dental profession to make tremendous therapeutic advances that would otherwise have been impossible. Introduced in the late 1940s, the amide local anesthetics represent the most use...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess children's reactions and record their sensations while receiving a warmed local anesthetic solution for dental procedures (37 degrees C; W) compared with one at room temperature (21 degrees C; RT). METHODS Forty-four children between the ages of 6 to 11 (mean age = 7.9 +/- 2.2 years) who were undergoing dental treatment participated in the study...

a quick operation. Those who have used the syringe and one of the novocain preparations for local anaesthesia know how patients dread the ' poke\ Indeed the operation of securing anaesthesia is more painful than the actual extraction or the incision. This JS understandable because the tissues are inflamed a" round and the slightest touch, and much more a jabis exquisitely painful. Patients woul...