AIM To investigate the effect of retrobulbar and subconjunctival anaesthesia on retrobulbar haemodynamics by colour Doppler imaging. METHOD 39 patients (mean age 71 (SD 9) years; 19 females, 20 males) undergoing planned cataract surgery were included in the prospective study. Colour Doppler imaging (Siemens Sonoline Sienna, Germany) was performed before, directly after either subconjunctival ...

BACKGROUND Little information exists regarding factors influencing perioperative cardiac arrests and their outcome. This survey evaluated the incidence, causes and outcome of perioperative cardiac arrests in a Brazilian tertiary general teaching hospital between April 1996 and March 2005. METHODS The incidence of cardiac arrest during anaesthesia was prospectively identified from an anaesthes...

A treatment challenge for patients with sacral pressure ulcers is balancing the need for adequate surgical debridement with appropriate anaesthesia management. We are functioning under the hypothesis that regional anaesthesia has advantages over general anaesthesia. We describe our regional anaesthesia protocol for perioperative and postoperative management.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the suitability of spinal and general anaesthesia for cesarean section. METHODS The prospective, double-blinded study, done between March and December 2009, at Central Education and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey, involved 60 patients undergoing elective cesarean surgery. They were grouped according to the kind of anaesthesia, with each group having 30 patients each....

Trauma to the upper limb is extremely common. Many of these patients present for surgery and anaesthesia as an emergency case, often complicated by other injuries and requiring effective perioperative analgesia. Although the use of regional anaesthesia for elective upper limb surgery has greatly increased, there is a lack of readily available information on the use and potential benefits of reg...

headline 18.1. There were 28 Certain/probable or Possible reports of AAGA involving intravenous anaesthesia. In 21 of them total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) was used for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia, and in seven the patient received both a volatile anaesthetic and an IV infusion of propofol. Twenty four cases occurred in theatre and an important cause was failure to deliver the ...

BACKGROUND Midlatency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEP) are a promising tool for monitoring suppression of sensory processing during anaesthesia and might help to avoid awareness. MLAEP in children are different to those in adults and the exact changes during general anaesthesia are unknown. METHODS In 49 children of age between 2 and 12 yr, MLAEP were recorded before anaesthesia, during tra...

BACKGROUND Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common complication after cardiac and major non-cardiac surgery with general anaesthesia in the elderly. We hypothesized that the incidence of POCD would be less with regional anaesthesia rather than general. METHODS We included patients aged over 60 years undergoing major non-cardiac surgery. After giving written informed consent, pa...

Over 20% of deliveries require a caesarean section for the birth of the baby. Caesarean deliveries are performed as an elective or an emergency procedure under General, Spinal, Epidural or combined spinal epidural anaesthesia. The majority of caesarean sections are done under spinal anaesthesia now. Spinal Anaesthesia is preferred for caesarean section because it is simple to perform and is eco...

58 Vol. 10 No. 2, April-June 2008 Introduction: An increasing number of day-case surgical patients are challenging the presently used methods of anaesthesia:. Surgical anaesthesia should be fast, reliable with rapid recovery and minimal side effects. To compete with modern ambulatory general anaesthesia, knowledge of special spinal anaesthesia techniques is essential. 'Walk-in, walk-out' spinal...