An adjunct to local anaesthesia.

Innovar as an adjunct to nitrous oxide, oxygen, curare anaesthesia.

WrTH THE INCREASING concern many anaesthetists are feeling toward the rather routine use of halogenated hydrocarbons, we felt it worthwhile to develop a simple technique to avoid these agents in major surgical procedures. The well recognized use of nitrous oxide (N20) plus oxygen (O2), muscle relaxants and hyperventilation provides adequate operating conditions for certain procedures, i.e. ches...

Thyroid surgery under local anaesthesia: an alternative to general anaesthesia

Background: Local Anaesthesia is now being accepted universally as a safe alternative to general anaesthesia for thyroid surgery. Aim: This study was carried out to compare the outcomes of patients undergoing thyroid surgery under local and general anaesthesia. Material and Methods: Hundred patients who underwent thyroid surgery for benign and malignant diseases under local and general anaesthe...

Allergy to local anaesthesia.

A 35-year-old female had severe anaphylactoid reactions to pnlocaine and lignocaine on separate occasions Intradermal testing was positive to serial dilutions of both drugs and negative to bupivacaine, which was subsequently used uneventfully While intradermal testing for local anaesthetic allergy has limited application it would appear that when such te*ts are positive in high dilution they ma...

Diazepam as an adjunct in propanidid anaesthesia for abortion.

A double-blind study of the effects of diazepam as an adjuvant to propanidid anaesthesia for legal abortion has shown that the incidence of nausea and vomiting was significandy reduced as a result of giving diazepam, and that, in general, the conditions of anaesthesia were more acceptable widi diazepam. The diazepam group had a prolongation of the time to recovery of consciousness but this was ...

Nitrous oxide as an adjunct to local anesthesia: a study.