INTRODUCTION Anesthesia emergence delirium is a self-limiting clinical phenomenon very common in children. Although pathophysiology is still uncertain, some factors seem to be involved, such as rapid awakening in an unknown environment, agitation during anesthetic induction, preoperative anxiety, environmental disorders, use of preanesthetic medication, use of inhalational anesthetics, and post...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Decrease in body temperature is common during general and regional anesthesia. Forced-air warming intraoperative during cesarean section under spinal anesthesia seems not able to prevent it. The hypothesis considers that active warming before the intraoperative period avoids temperature loss during cesarean. METHODS Forty healthy pregnant patients undergoing elective...

In Brief Purpose: To study practice patterns in European cataract surgery over a 10-year period. Setting: clinics affiliated to the Registry of Quality Outcomes for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (EUREQUO). Design: cohort study. Methods: The EUREQUO contains preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative parameters reported by surgeons many clinics. All data registry are anonymized. Preoperative ...

BACKGROUND Patients with significant medical problems requiring major otolaryngology procedures are at high risk for both medical and surgical complications. OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors associated with perioperative complications in medically compromised patients undergoing major otolaryngology procedures. METHODS Ninety-three consecutive patients with significant comorbid medical il...

Preoperative anxiety is frequently correlated with anesthesia procedures, resulting in the anesthesiologist being most suitable person to decrease patient's through effective doctor–patient communication during pre–anesthesia visits. During anxiety, one of body responses release epinephrine blood vessel increased pressure. Objectives: To knew correlation between pre-anesthesia visit and pressur...

introduction: incomplete anesthesia of inflamed teeth is a well known clinical occurrence and the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of ibuprofen as a premedication in improving the quality of anesthesia in patients with inflamed teeth pulps. methods: forty patients with the diagnosis of irreversible pulpitis in one mandibular tooth were selected. two other teeth in the sam...

UNLABELLED The mechanism of tourniquet-induced arterial pressure increase is not known. We investigated the effect of preoperative ketamine on tourniquet-induced arterial pressure and heart rate changes in 85 patients undergoing knee surgery with a tourniquet under general anesthesia. Patients were randomly assigned into three groups; Large Ketamine (n = 28; ketamine 1.0 mg/kg), Small Ketamine ...

Background The major perioperative concern in patients with second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block is the progression to complete AV block. Therefore, the prophylactic implantation of a temporary pacemaker prior to surgery is recommended, especially in symptomatic patients. However, as no quantitative preoperative risk assessment from progression to complete AV block is available, there is c...

OBJECTIVES In this study preoperative examination, computed tomography and the peroperative macroscopic examination of the specimen were compared in the determination of anterior commissural involvement in laryngeal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-two male patients (mean age 59.6 ± 9.9 years; range 46 to 78 years) who underwent total laryngectomy for laryngeal cancer between January 2007 ...

BACKGROUND Children and parents experience significant anxiety and distress during the preoperative period. This is important because preoperative anxiety in children is associated with adverse postoperative outcome. So we suggest behaviorally oriented preoperative anxiety intervention program based on the anesthesia and psychology with smartphone application, world-widely used. METHODS A tot...