BACKGROUND Unsatisfactory analgesia for major knee surgery with femoral nerve block (FNB) alone was reported and the additional benefit of sciatic block to continuous femoral nerve block (CFNB) was not conclusive. The aim of the present study was to find the benefit of the additional mini-dose spinal morphine (0.035 mg) to CFNB for postoperative pain control and to compare their associated side...

Purpose To compare the occurrences of perioperative complications of two anesthetic techniques (general anesthesia [GA] and spinal anesthesia [SA] in patients undergoing primary unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Materials and Methods Patients who underwent unilateral primary TKA due to osteoarthritis from January 2005 to January 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. They were divided in...

introduction: nowadays, spinal anesthesia is associated with few complications in many surgical practices especially the elective caesarean which is taken as a suitable replacement for general anesthesia. different drugs are used for spinal anesthesia. this study aims to compare lidocaine 5% in combination with meperidine 5% plus lidocaine 5% for spinal anesthesia in non-emergency cesarean pati...

conclusions spinal anesthesia in the sitting position is more associated with significant phdh than that in the left lateral decubitus position for patients undergoing elective caesarian section. background the most common method of anesthesia for cesarean section is spinal anesthesia, and postdural puncture headache (pdph) remains a major complication of this procedure. nowadays, pdph is a maj...

conclusions lidocaine does not have additive effects on duration and quality of spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine in those undergoing turp. results both study groups were comparable regarding the baseline characteristics. we did not find any difference between the two study groups regarding the duration of anesthetic block reaching the maximum level (p = 0.433) and duration of decreasing it to...

PURPOSE To highlight technical aspects and pitfalls of spinal anesthesia (SA) in infants. METHODS The medical history and perioperative course of all infants who underwent SA over a 28-month period were collected (retrospectively in the first 20). RESULTS Sixty-two infants underwent surgery under SA. Fifty-five were premature and former-premature, postconceptional age 43.3 +/- 5.0 weeks, we...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: it was aimed to compare the efficacy and adverse effects of levobupivacaine alone and in combination with fentanyl and sufentanil during transurethral resection of the prostate (turp) under spinal anesthesia. materials and methods: in this prospective, randomized, double-blind trial, 60 patients undergoing elective turp under spinal anes...