background: strabismus surgery under general anesthesia is one of the most common ophthalmic procedures in children with emergence delirium as an important post-operative complication. additionally, postoperative pain is another important issue which is considered as a contributing factor to emergence delirium. we conducted a study to compare meperidine with paracetamol on postoperative pain an...

OBJECTIVES To identify the incidence and the risk factors of emergence agitation in adults undergoing general anesthesia for nasal surgery. METHODS We retrospectively examined 792 patients aged ≥18 years who underwent general anesthesia for elective nasal surgery between July 2012 and August 2013. Patients in the postanesthesia care unit with a Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale≥+1 at any time...

Delayed awakening from anesthesia poses diagnostic challenges. The time for emergence from anesthesia is affected by patient factors, anesthetic factors, duration of surgery, and painful stimulation. However, delayed emergence can have unusual causes. We report a patient who, following termination of general anesthesia, did not regain consciousness for 6 h following surgery. Vital sign measurem...

Although generally safe and effective, severe perioperative complications, including cardiac arrest, may occur during general anesthesia in infants. With the emergence of evidence that specific anesthetic agents may affect future neurocognitive outcomes, there has been an increased focus on alternatives to general anesthesia, including spinal anesthesia. We present a case of cardiac arrest duri...

Mechanisms driving emergence from general anesthesia are not well understood. The noradrenergic brain nucleus locus coeruleus (LC) modulates arousal and may have effects on general anesthetic state. Using virally delivered designer receptors to specifically control LC norepinephrine (NE) neurons, we investigated the causal relationship between LC-NE activity and general anesthetic state under i...

conclusions the results of this study demonstrated that spinal anesthesia increased the chance of fertilization success. results there was no difference between the two groups regarding demographic variables. 15 of 100 patients (15%) in the general anesthesia group and 27 of 100 patients (27%) in the spinal anesthesia group had successful pregnancy after ivf; so, spinal anesthesia increased sig...