Introduction: The effectiveness of premedication patients with arterial hypertension and severe ventricular rhythm disturbances against the background Amiodarone-associated thyrotoxicosis, high anxiety cyclothymiae disorders should be based on pharmacological positions need to reduce risk dangerous adverse cardiovascular reactions.
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Preanesthetic medication in paediatric patients is well known to be a challenge for anaesthesiologists. Premedication population helps produce relaxed state with reduced anxiety and increased compliance as ease separation from parent allowing the patient tolerate co-operate necessary procedure. Our aim do comparation of dexmedetomidine midazolam given via intranasal route children posted tonsil...

OBJECTIVE To review the efficacy of pharmacological prevention of serious reactions to iodinated contrast media. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Systematic search (multiple databases, bibliographies, all languages, to October 2005) for randomised comparisons of pretreatment with placebo or no treatment (control) in patients receiving iodinated contrast media. Review methods Trial qua...

OBJECTIVE A retrospective review of premedication method and drug resistance of aspirin and clopidogrel in association with thromboembolic events during and after coil embolization of an unruptured intracranial aneurysm was conducted. METHODS Our premedication policy for coil embolization of an unruptured intracranial aneurysm has changed from administration of the loading dose before the pro...

The efficacy of a sublingual preparation of lorazepam was compared with an i.m. injection of lorazepam as premedication for 150 patients undergoing minor gynaecological surgery. Anxiety, arousability and recall of auditory, visual and tactile stimuli were used as measurements of the degree and rate of onset of the effects. Anxiety scores decreased in both groups after medication. Patients who r...

BACKGROUND Anxiety is a preoperative complication, which most patients encounter. The use of a premedication to reduce preoperative anxiety with minimal cognitive impairment is crucial. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to compare the sedative effect of preoperative melatonin and Passiflora incarnata in patients undergoing elective surgery regarding their potential for postoperative cogniti...

This study aimed to evaluate whether maternal presence during induction has additional beneficial effects on a mother's anxiety or changes in the child's behavior when an information booklet was given to all mothers and premedication was given to all patients. One hundred children, aged 2-10 years, scheduled for ambulatory surgery were randomly assigned to a mother-present (Group M) or mother-a...

Background Premedication with orally administered benzodiazepines is effective in reducing anxiety and discomfort related to endoscopic procedures. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of oral midazolam in comparison to sublingual alprazolam as premedication for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). Materials and Methods Adult candidates for diagnostic EGD received either oral midazolam (7.5 mg i...

Observations on the frequency and severity of postanaesthetic nausea and vomiting were made in 252 women undergoing minor gynaecological operations under general anaesthesia consisting of thiopentone, nitrous oxide and oxygen. Anaesthesia lasted for 10 minutes in all patients. One per cent halothane in oxygen was given for 5 minutes at the end of anaesthesia to two groups of cases, one with and...

BACKGROUND/AIMS An acute immunological stress reaction was previously reported to occur after the painful setting of retrobulbar anaesthesia before intraocular surgery. This study was conducted to find out whether an oral low dose premedication with midazolam would modify the immunological stress reaction. METHODS 32 patients undergoing intraocular surgery using retrobulbar anaesthesia were i...