Anesthesia usually involves a loss of memory and awareness, along with insensitivity to painful stimuli, during a surgical procedure. Many drugs aid anesthesiologists in the management and comfort of their patients during the perioperative period. These compounds vary in their chemical and physical characteristics and in their usual routes of administration. There are inhalational agents, inclu...

Propofol is one of the most common drugs used as an anesthetic agent. Tissue damage associated with propofol quite rare.

An objective measure of the hypnotic component of general anaesthesia has been sought

Fibreoptic intubation has been established as a major advance in the management of difficult or failed intubation in the awake patient. If necessary, it may be performed under general anaesthesia with either spontaneous or controlled ventilation. This should be considered early in the management of failed intubation, before multiple attempts with other techniques lead to haemorrhage and oedema ...

This study aimed at analyzing the effect of 5S practice on staff motivation, patients' waiting time and patient satisfaction with health services at hospitals in Uganda. Double-difference estimates were measured for 13 Regional Referral Hospitals and eight General Hospitals implementing 5S practice separately. The study for Regional Referral Hospitals revealed 5S practice had the effect on staf...

A patient underwent elective removal of a phaeochromocytoma producing extremely high plasma concentrations of catecholamines. The new volatile agent, desflurane, was incorporated, in varying concentrations, into the general anaesthetic regimen.

This paper employs a cohort analysis to examine the relative importance of different factors in explaining changes in the number of hours spent in direct patient care by Canadian general/family practitioners (GPs) over the period 1982-2003. Cohorts are defined by year of graduation from medical school. The results for male GPs indicate that there is little age effect on hours of direct patient ...

THE Bispectral Index (BIS) monitor (BIS® monitor; Aspect Medical System, Inc., Newton, MA) integrates electroencephalographic data via a proprietary algorithm based on empirical data into a nominal 100 to 0 scale, in which 100 represents the awake state and 0 represents the isoelectric electroencephalogram. The BIS® monitor is highly capable of correctly predicting both the loss and recovery of...