Vitamin C as placebo

Vitamin C as placebo

To the Editor: The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) has the advantage of attenuating the pressure response during its insertion compared with tracheal intubation and the associated increase in heart rate is very short lived. ~,2 The LMA also results in minimal coughing and produces a smooth emergence from anaesthesia. In the neurosurgical patient small perturbations in blood pressure may initiate to...

Use of Vitamin C as Placebo in Anesthesiology

I was interested to read the paper entitled “Effects of clonidine premedication upon postoperative shivering and recovery time in opium addicted and non-addicted patients by elective leg fracture surgeries” (1). I note that the authors administered vitamin C tablet as placebo for clonidine. Noteworthy, earlier animal studies have suggested that there is a close relationship between recovery fro...

use of vitamin c as placebo in anesthesiology

Vitamin C as Protection Against Radiation Exposure

e nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011 led to drastic mechanistic measures (e.g., evacuation, decontamination showers of clothing, and use of protective clothing by rescue workers) to protect the population against imminent and future radiation exposure. Besides mechanistic measures, no orthomolecular protection measures other than iodine supplementation were taken, although scie...

Vitamin C as Cancer Therapy: An Overview

1. Dept. of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E2 2. Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer, Univ. of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX. Introduction The popularity of complementary/alternative therapies (CAM) is an international phenomenon with 25% of UK residents, 50% of the German, French, and Australian populations, and 42...