OBJECTIVE to determine whether the duration of hospital stay after abdominal hysterectomy in a fast-track setting differed between women operated under general anaesthesia or in spinal anaesthesia with intrathecal morphine. DESIGN an open randomised controlled multicentre study. SETTING five hospitals in the south-east of Sweden. POPULATION one hundred and eighty women scheduled for benig...

BACKGROUND This study compared the stroke-free survival rates and hazard ratios (HRs) for stroke between preeclamptic women who received general anaesthesia and those who received neuraxial anaesthesia for Caesarean section (CS). METHODS This study used 2002-7 data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. The stroke-free survival rate was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier meth...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To assess patient preferences for different anaesthesia management strategies during cataract surgery. METHODS Cross sectional clinic based study of patient preferences for anaesthesia management strategies. Patients rated their preferences using a linear rating scale from 0 to 100. RESULTS Subjects tended to prefer block to topical anaesthesia and oral to intravenous sedati...

Objective: To determine the frequency of patients having adequate knowledge regarding anaesthesia and role anaesthesiologists. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place Duration Study: Department Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, The Indus Hospital Karachi, Pakistan from 1stJanuary 2017 to 31stMarch 2018. Methodology: Patients presented preoperative clinic or admitted in hospital for electi...

We describe the use of a questionnaire to define the difficulties in providing anaesthesia in Uganda. The results show that 23% of anaesthetists have the facilities to deliver safe anaesthesia to an adult, 13% to deliver safe anaesthesia to a child and 6% to deliver safe anaesthesia for a Caesarean section. The questionnaire identified shortages of personnel, drugs, equipment and training that ...

Marntell S. 2004. Sedation and dissociative anaesthesia in the horse. Physiological and clinical aspects. Doctoral dissertation. The overall aim of this investigation was to study the effects of different drug combinations for premedication and dissociative anaesthesia, to examine their suitability for field conditions and their ability to maintain cardiorespiratory function and provide suffici...

The aims and objectives of our study is to analyse the time taken by the anaesthetist for induction during general, spinal, combined spinal epidural and ultrasound guided brachial plexus block ,comparing these with benchmark values and find reasons for delay. Present prospective case study aims at measurement of anaesthesia induction times during a period of two months. Overall 231 patients had...

Xenon (MAC = 71%) has an extremely low blood:gas partition coefficient (0.14). Therefore, we predicted that the rate of emergence from xenon anaesthesia would not be affected greatly by duration of anaesthesia. We studied 54 ASA I-II patients undergoing lower abdominal surgery who received equal MAC anaesthesia with 60% xenon, 60% nitrous oxide with 0.5% isoflurane or 60% nitrous oxide with 0.7...