background: pregnancy causes a small increase in risk of venous thromboembolism (vte), but a large increase in concern upon presentation during cesarean section with symptoms of pulmonary embolism (pe). pulmonary embolism clinical manifestations during spinal anesthesia could be misleading. we have presented 2 interesting cases of pregnant women underwent spinal anesthesia for cesarean section ...

background: prolonged qt interval may lead to serious arrhythmias and ventricular fibrillation, hence prevention of the qt-interval prolongation is crucial for physicians. the aim of this study was to assess the influence of intravenous lidocaine on the qtc interval resulting from spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine. methods: in a randomized double blind trial, fifty male patients with mean age ...

Objective: One of the most common side effects spinal anesthesia (SA) is hypotension. The aim study was to evaluate efficacay inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter measurements, perfusion index (PI) and pleth variability (PVI) values in determining risk developing hypotension after SA. Materials Methods: This conducted on 81 patients who underwent transurethral prostatectomy. Before administration ...

Accurate situation awareness (SA) of medical staff is integral for providing optimal performance during the treatment of patients. An understanding of SA and how it affects treatment of patients is therefore crucial for patient safety and an essential element for research on human factors in anesthesia. This review describes the concept of SA in the anesthesia environment, including the interac...

conclusions although most authors believe that general anesthesia following fiberoptic intubation is the preferred method for oi patients, it is likely that spinal anesthesia is acceptable in such patients. although it is technically difficult, the procedure can be performed by expert anesthesiologists. introduction the choice of anesthetic technique in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (oi...

conclusions it seems that tertiary amine drugs such as amitriptyline and doxepin had reasonable potencies of spinal blockade when compared to bupivacaine. however, amitriptyline had a more potent and long-acting spinal anesthetic effect. amitriptyline may turn out to be a clinically valuable local anesthetic. results in groups 1 and 2, a total of 3 rats died. after adjusting the concentrations,...

objective: this prospective study examined the frequency of post-dural puncture headache (pdph) in 361 parturient women undergoing spinal anesthesia for cesarean section in a teaching hospital of tehran university of medical sciences. materials and methods: spinal anesthesia was performed using 25 gauge quincke needles in all women. patients were followed up to determine incidence of pdph and t...

results the rate of first-time successful spinal needle insertion was not significantly different between the clsp and tsp groups (62.9% versus 55.7%, p > 0.05). ease of landmark palpation in the clsp group was not significantly different from that in the tsp group (86.7% versus 76.4%, p > 0.05). the number of needle-bone contacts in both groups were not significantly different (p > 0.05). the ...