a 53-year-old male was referred to our department for refractory primary hypertension. despite high doses of 6 anti-hypertensive drugs, ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure (bp) revealed a mean bp of 160/90 mmhg. under local anaesthesia, renal denervation with radiofrequency was performed supported by high-resolution 3d angiography, which helped confirm the position of the applications in a ...

In this article, we review the methods of anaesthesia commonly used in ophthalmology in Singapore. These include topical, local, regional and general anaesthesia. Topical and local anaesthesia is adequate for most outpatient procedures. The most common form of regional anaesthesia in Singapore is still retrobulbar anaesthesia. General anaesthesia is used in children and when more extensive proc...

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Sixty patients underwent arthroscopy of the knee as day cases using a local anaesthetic technique. This provided satisfactory operating conditions and high patient acceptability.

A 35-year-old female had severe anaphylactoid reactions to pnlocaine and lignocaine on separate occasions Intradermal testing was positive to serial dilutions of both drugs and negative to bupivacaine, which was subsequently used uneventfully While intradermal testing for local anaesthetic allergy has limited application it would appear that when such te*ts are positive in high dilution they ma...

Introduction: The dental syringe, since its introduction in 1921, has been very popular in operations performed under local anesthetics (LA). It can, however, be quite cumbersome to handle for people with petite hands. Therefore, the aim of this study is to introduce a technique of utilizing its sealed lignospan cartridges in a simpler way by using hypodermic syringe and needle to achieve effec...

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