INTRODUCTION The evaluation of pain intensity is still a subject of research. Mostly psychological evaluations are used. We started to conduct biochemical evaluation in animal experiments. Now we present biochemical evaluation in postoperative pain in man. MATERIAL AND METHODS In 67 patients herniotomy was done. For pre-emptive analgesia morphine and pethidine were used and the following indi...

OBJECTIVE To study the safety and benefits of parenteral ketamine and lignocaine infiltration among pediatric surgical patients with co-morbidities that would preclude the use of general anesthesia requiring endotracheal intubation/face mask in a developing country. METHODS This prospective study was undertaken at the Leadeks Medical Centre, Benin City Edo State, Nigeria between January 2002 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the biochemical changes associated with succinylcholine administration after pretreatment with rocuronium at different time intervals. METHOD The prospective, randomised, single-blinded study was conducted at the Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from January to May 2010. Ninety male, aged 18-60 years, American Society of Anaesthesiology I or II patients undergoing...

On November 24th, 1900, a woman came under my care at the Infirmary with right femoral hernia that had been strangulated for a week. She had had much poulticing and much taxis, and the symptoms of obstruction were complete. The skin was red and cedematous all round the tumour, and her general condition was grave in the extreme. On cutting through the skin, fecal matter exuded in more than one p...

It came down for the last time on the 14th March 1889 at 5 p.m. Taxis was applied repeatedly by his medical friends till 7 p.m., but to no effect. He got his admission into the Medical College Hospital at about 9 p.m. Ice application was tried here for 6 hours, but to no material good. At 3 A.M., of the 15th March 1889, he was put under chloroform and the operation of herniotomy with radical cu...

Transverse testicular ectopia (TTE) is a rare anomaly in which both testes descend through a single inguinal canal. We report a case of yolk sac tumor in the ectopic testis of a patient with TTE. A 24-year-old man presented to our hospital with a left inguinal-mass, right cryptorchidism and elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). A left herniotomy 3 years earlier demonstrated both testes in the left ...

BACKGROUND Day-care surgery is a common procedure in most of the hospitals. It has the advantages of early discharge and thus contributes to cost effectiveness. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the feasibility of day-care surgery in rural and urban patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Around 200 cases undergoing day-care surgeries of various types in urban and rural patient were en...