BACKGROUND Some patients with special needs exhibit intellectual disability, including deficits in cognitive skills and decreased quality of life. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively compare changes in body composition and hemodynamics during general anesthesia in patients with and without special needs. METHODS The backgrounds of patients who underwent oral maxillofacial surgery...

Objectives: Depression and anxiety are commonly seen among epileptic patients. These comorbidities have a negative effect on achievement of effective treatment and improvement in the quality of life of epileptic patients. We aimed to determine the frequency of anxiety and depression in epilepsy and in subgroups of epileptic patients and their correlation with disease duration and seizure freque...

background: opiate is used in patient-controlled intravenous analgesia pumps (pcia) for controlling pain in post-surgical patients.other drugs are remarkably added to opioid pumps to enhance quality, lengthen analgesia, and reduce side effects. lidocaine, a local anesthetic which inhibits sodium channels, has anesthetic and analgesic effects when injected locally or intravenously. the objective...

It is shown that the the maximal torus normalizer determines the p-compact group PU(p) and its automorphisms. This leads to homotopy uniqueness results for PU(p) and related p-compact groups and to a novel construction of unstable Adams operations.

Let A be a Henselian discrete valuation ring with fractions K and with perfect residue field k of characteristic p > 0. Let G be a connected and reductive algebraic group over K, and let P be a parahoric group scheme over A with generic fiber P/K = G. The special fiber P/k is a linear algebraic group over k. If G splits over an unramified extension of K, we proved in some previous work that the...