Intravenous anaesthesia: new drugs, new concepts, and clinical applications

The new antiepileptic drugs: clinical applications.

In the past decade, 8 new antiepileptic drugs have been approved for use in the United States, offering many new treatment options to patients with epilepsy. With expanding use of these newer agents, primary care clinicians are challenged with understanding the roles that each new agent plays in the treatment of patients with epilepsy as well as possible interactions with other pharmacological ...

Drugs against pain-new concepts

Non Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) have been the treatment of choice for mild to moderate inflammatory pain for more than a century. NSAIDs block the formation of prostaglandins by inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX). Their most common side-effect is ulceration of the upper gastrointestinal tract. The development of selective COX-2 inhibitors (coxibs) has reduced gastrointestinal toxicity...

New concepts of atelectasis during general anaesthesia.

At the beginning of the last century, Pasteur described postoperative pulmonary atelectasis, analysed postoperative pulmonary complications (PCC; see below) and noted: `when the true history of postoperative lung complications comes to be written, active collapse of the lung, from de®ciency of inspiratory power, will be found to occupy an important position among determining causes'. Indeed, at...

tricyclic antidepressants: old drugs-new applications

INSULINOMA NEW CONCEPTS IN MANAGEMENT

In this report, nine patients with insulinoma who were operated on between 19H5 and I <J<J3 at the Shohada Medical Center affiliated to the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran are presented. There were three males and six females (male to female ratio I :2) and the patients' age ranged from 23 to 60 years old (mean age 37.6 years old). Duration of symptoms was from thr...