INTRODUCTION Various hemostatic and analgesic agents and techniques have been used to reduce intraoperative and postoperative hemorrhage and pain in tonsillectomy.Aims and objective; The current study aimed to compare the effect of using adrenaline plus tramadol and normal saline in maintaining hemostasis and control of pain in cold dissection tonsillectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospec...

1. Stressful sympathetic stimulation (cold pressor test) was applied to 18 patients with essential hypertension and 15 normotensive subjects. Intra-arterial blood pressure, heart rate, plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline concentrations as well as forearm blood flow were measured before and during the cold pressor test; tests were repeated after regional postsynaptic a,adrenoceptor blockade with...

High pressure liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection has been used to measure plasma catecholamine concentrations in six gynaecological patients undergoing halothane anaesthesia for cervical cone biopsy. Mean catecholamine concentrations before infiltration were 1.01 +/- 0.23 (SEM) nmol litre-1 (185 +/- 43 pg ml-1) for adrenaline, and 2.2 +/- 0.25 nmol litre-1 (364 +/- 41 (185 +/-...

Results 51 reported anaphylaxis cases to date, with data available for 37. There were 23 (62%) boys and 27 (73%) new patients in this group. Food was the implicated allergen in 29/37 (78%). Peanut and cashew were the most frequent foods involved (24%), followed by egg (17%) and milk (14%). 62% of the cases were exposed to food allergens at home. Skin (92%) and airway symptoms (89%) predominated...

THE close structural relationship which adrenaline bears to two amino-acids which are found in proteins suggests that either of them may logically be regarded as its parent substance. These two amino-acids, phenylalanine and tyrosine, possess almost the same carbon skeleton as adrenaline and might give rise to the latter by successive oxidation, methylation of the nitrogen atom and loss of CO2....

BACKGROUND The best method to deliver intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) for peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer is not well defined. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of hyperthermia and adrenaline to enhance the intratumoral accumulation of cisplatin in a rat model of peritoneal carcinomatosis. METHODS Four groups of 5 BDIX rats with ovarian peritoneal carcinomatosis...

Objective In Japan, the protocol for timing of adrenaline administration by paramedics is determined local medical control council. The purpose this study was to compare, via prehospital care indices, how differences in ‘adrenaline times’ across prefectures influence cerebral functioning prognoses. Methods We included 13,326 cases registered nationwide Utstein style database. To compare tim...

Results Adrenaline auto-injector was prescribed in 258 children (66% boys and 34% girls). In 120 of them adrenaline auto-injector was prescribed de novo. 2% of them were babies, 31% 1 to 5 years old, 52% 6 to 14 years old and 15% 15 to 18 years old. In 66% adrenaline auto-injector was prescribed because of anaphylaxis, in 27% because of urticaria or/and angioedema and in 7% because of other rea...

Angiotensin (Ang II) II is known to promote oxidative stress in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Inhibition of renin angiotensin system (RAS) or blockade of Ang II receptors may therefore be effective in reducing oxidative stress during AMI. The study evaluates and compares the protective effect of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and AT1 receptor blocker in adrenaline induced ox...