BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY There is growing interest in the UK towards increasing treatment options for women undergoing abortion and miscarriage. Such options include home medical treatment and surgery under local anaesthesia (LA). This study aimed to gauge views of women undergoing abortion and treatment for miscarriage at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh towards medical treatment at home, and s...

LIGNOCAINE has as yet been very little used for spinal anaesthesia, Adams (1956) alone having reported a series of cases in this country. This is probably because at the present time general anaesthesia is the rule and there is little interest in finding a better spinal analgesic. Having been very impressed by a sample of 5 per cent hyperbaric lignocaine (Xylocaine), it was decided to attempt a...

OBJECTIVE Anaesthesiologists are applying regional anaesthesia for caesarean section at an increasing rate compared to previous years. In our study, we tried to evaluate the perspective of obstetricians towards this trend. METHODS Questionnaires were sent to e-mail addresses of obstetricians via the internet; 195 obstetricians replied. Sex, age, work place, employer, working durations as cons...

Concentrations of acute phase proteins (CRP: C-reactive protein, albumin) change during surgery. We investigated the acute phase response to circumcision and the effects of anaesthesia on this response. The children were divided into four groups; group 1 (intratracheal general anaesthesia, n=40), group 2 (general anaesthesia with mask, n=20), group 3 (ketamine, n=20), group 4 (local anaesthesia...

Objective: The goal of this study was to evaluate the anaesthetic method used in patients who have undergone caesarean section. Methods: The anaesthetic reports that belong to the women who underwent caesarean section between the years 2014 and 2015 were evaluated in terms of the demographic data, anaesthetic methods, and reported complications. Results: Although 299 patients received general a...

Single dose caudal epidural anesthesia is a commonly performed regional technique in paediatric anesthesia. It supplements general anesthesia during surgery and provides analgesia in the post operative period for lower abdominal surgeries not exceeding 45 minutes. Aims and Objectives: A comparative prospective interventional study was conducted to assess the duration, efficacy and safety of two...