Levobupivacaine ampoule labelling about sterility

Levobupivacaine base and levobupivacaine hydrochloride.

Editor—The British Journal of Anaesthesia has published six papers comparing the effects of levobupivacaine, the S(–)stereoisomer of bupivacaine with bupivacaine and ropivacaine, between 1998 and 2004, and three papers on various aspects of levobupivacaine alone. None of these papers calculated the concentration according to molarity. Two of them noted that there is a difference between the cli...

[Men and women: imagery about sterility in Portuguese America].

This paper discusses old usages and beliefs about sterility in Colonial Brazil. Treated as a curse usually befallen women, sterility was struggled with symbolism and phytotherapy, aiming to "unbock" or "remove the spell" from the craddle of creation.

Sterility

Water content of ampoule packaged with ProRoot MTA.

We are writing to draw attention to an inconsistency in the amount of water in the packages of both white and grey MTA which are commercially available as ProRoot MTA Original (Dentsply International Inc., Johnson City, TN, USA) and ProRoot MTA (Dentsply International Inc.). In each package, there are five sachets (pouches) containing 1 g of ProRoot MTA powder and six ampoules of water. The man...

Glass ampoule in urinary bladder as a foreign body

A wide range of objects have been inserted into the urinary bladder and urethra. Most foreign bodies in the lower genitourinary tract are self-inserted via the urethra as the result of erotic impulses, psychometric problems, sexual curiosity, or sexual practice while intoxicated. Here we report the case of a 32-year-old female with alleged history of insertion of glass ampoule in the urethra by...