this research project is a field study to investigate the complications of general anaesthesia with mask in patients under surgery in a hospital affiliated to university of medical sciences iran. the specific goals of this study are as follows:   -to determine some of the characters of patients under study.   -to determine the complications of general anesthesia with mask during surgery in one ...

Although general anesthetics are often said to be nonspecific agents, it is likely that they act at a much more restricted set of target sites than commonly believed. The traditional view has been that the primary targets are lipid portions of nerve membranes, but recent evidence shows that the effects on lipid bilayers of clinically relevant levels of anesthetics are very small. Effects on mos...

aThe surgeon then made an incision straight down into my stomach. I just started to scream inside my head and prayed that I would not die. I could hear my skin tearing and ripping, and it felt like someone took a blowtorch to my stomach. Then the surgeon cut across my stomach. As he was cutting across my stomach, it felt as i f someone took 500pound bowling balls and dropped them right below my...

General anesthesia aims to eliminate patients' awareness of excruciating pain during surgery. Nevertheless, rare occurrences of patient awareness continue because the problem is not yet completely preventable. One study puts the incidence of awareness at 0.18% for patients receiving muscle relaxants and at 0.10% for patients not given relaxant drugs. Awareness experiences frighten patients and ...

BACKGROUND General anaesthesia lowers the clearance of crystalloid fluid, but the volume kinetics of such fluid throughout the duration of spinal anaesthesia has not been studied. METHODS Ten female volunteers (mean age 29 years) received an intravenous infusion of 25 ml/kg of acetated Ringer's solution with and without spinal anaesthesia. A volume kinetic model was fitted to serial measureme...

BACKGROUND The objective of the present study was to examine the outcome of nasal fracture reduction under both local anaesthesia and general anaesthesia techniques. METHODS Patient records were obtained from clinic lists of patients attending the otolaryngology (ORL) outpatient unit at Wellington Hospital or the plastic surgical unit at Hutt Hospital over a 24-month period. To meet criteria ...