background: acute postoperative pain is an important surgical side effect that may delay patient discharge in ambulatory operations; moreover, the strategies used to alleviate pain may cause side effects that require longer hospitalization to recover. in this clinical trial, we compared two current anesthetic methods with special concerns about postoperative pain intensity beside other importan...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of epidural anesthesia and analgesia in management of perioperative stress has been established. Perioperative pain management strategies decrease surgical complications and aid recovery. In this study, we aimed to document and compare the efficacy of epidural bupivacaine and intravenous meperidine on recovery of patients with elective abdominal aortic surgery performed ...

Neuraxial agents provide robust pain control, have the potential to improve outcomes, and are an important component of the perioperative care of children. Opioids or clonidine improve analgesia when added to perioperative epidural infusions; analgesia is significantly prolonged by addition of clonidine, ketamine, neostigmine or tramadol to single shot caudal injections of local anesthetic; and...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the analgesic effectiveness of nitrous oxide for labor pain is limited. Even fewer studies have looked at patient satisfaction. Although nitrous oxide appears less effective than neuraxial analgesia, it is unclear whether labor analgesic effectiveness is the most important factor in patient satisfaction. We sought to compare the relationship between analgesic effectivenes...

Abstract Background Postpartum depression is one of the most commonly experienced psychological disorders for women after childbirth, usually occurring within year. This study aimed to clarify whether with delivery anesthesia, including epidural analgesia, spinal-epidural and paracervical block, had a decreased risk postpartum giving birth in Japan. Methods The Japan Environment Children’s Stud...

BACKGROUND Recently, the economic cost of anesthesiahas attracted attention. To compare the costs of three methods of general anesthesia (GA), a retrospective 1-year study was designed for patients undergoing radical resection for gastric carcinoma. METHODS A total of 398 patients were originally included in the study. Subjects were divided into three groups according to the mode of anesthesi...

(Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2020;64:142–144) A recent report by Wagner et al explores whether the presence of an obstetric anesthetist influences mode anesthesia in emergency cesarean delivery. General used delivery is associated with risks, while epidural should only be cases when labor analgesia has been established. Using regional to avoid general deliveries may decrease risk hypoxia and unwan...

N early 20 years have passed since the earliest reports appeared regarding the feasibility and effectiveness of thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) in infants and children (1,2). TEA has gained tremendous popularity and is now routinely practiced by many anesthesiologists around the world (3–8). Nevertheless, studies comparing the benefits of epidural analgesia with conventional systemic analgesi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Clinical effects and the potential synergism between clonidine, an alpha2-adrenergic agonist, and ropivacaine have not been studied in patients undergoing epidural anesthesia. This research aimed at clinically evaluating clonidine associated to ropivacaine for epidural anesthesia. METHODS Participated in this double-blind study 60 patients of both genders who were di...

Introduction: Bupivacaine is used most commonly for spinal anesthesia, however the major concern longer duration and cardiotoxicity, that led us to find safe alternative with shorter duration. Hence, we compared routinely hyperbaric bupivacaine recently available ropivacaine in terms of block characteristics caesarean section (CS).Objective: To compare efficacy safety anesthesia elective CS pri...