Introduction: Epidural analgesia was introduced in 1942 and since then has been regarded as a main-stay for labor pain relief. is not only safe well tried over millions of women across the world, but it also causes most maternal satisfaction among different techniques analgesia. anesthesia can effect thermoregulation through multiple mechanisms that, depending on circumstances, result an increa...

Objective: The effect of general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia on post-operative recovery was investigated to improve the therapeutic effectiveness of laparoscopic radical resection of rectal carcinoma. Methods: Eighty patients who underwent laparoscopic radical resection of rectal carcinoma in our hospital from February 2016 to February 2017 were selected according to their hospi...

background: pediatric oncology patients frequently need several painful procedures during their diagnostic and therapeutic process. during the past decades, most centers abroad have developed safe and effective protocols for procedural sedation and analgesia in children. this report describes procedural sedation and analgesia as performed in pediatric oncology unit and tries to report success o...

Introduction Epidural blockade in children continues to grow in popularity with increasing applications in the operating room and beyond. In infants and children, epidural anesthesia is most commonly performed in conjunction with general anesthesia as a means of providing postoperative analgesia or as a combined general-regional anesthetic technique to limit the requirements for general anesthe...

Providing safe and effective analgesia to laboring parturients presents a challenge to anesthesia providers in small hospitals. The necessary time commitment and additional staff needed to provide coverage for the obstetrical area can strain resources. Offering the spinal opioid block as the first choice for labor analgesia and the combined spinal epidural block in selected cases permits a labo...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of modifying the interval between administration of saline used during the loss of resistance (LOR) method and local anesthetic on epidural anesthetic level and its quality. METHODS Seventy-three patients who received thoracic epidural anesthesia were randomly allocated into three groups; the 2, 5 and 10 min groups, according to the interval between the administr...