A sixty-seven year old male patient admitted to the emergency department with complaints of epigastric pain and dark colored vomit which occurred while eating. The pain had a colic-like characteristic and spread to the chest. The patient vomited only once and continued to retch. No comorbid disease was present. The patient's blood pressurewas 167/101mmHg, pulsewas 67/min, respiratory rate was 2...

Althesin, the new steroid anaesthetic, has been given to patients having minor gynaecological operations after six different premedicant combinations. Atropine, which had been studied previously, was a satisfactory premedicant in terms of both induction and recovery and diazepam 10 nag was not very different. Hyoscine, given before Althesin 50 /"I/kg, increased the incidence of involuntary musc...

Forty-seven patients with acute renal colic were treated with either tenoxicam 20 mg i.v. or buscopan compositum (hyoscine butylbromide 20 mg and dipyrone 2.5 g) i.v. in a double blind study. Renal colic was diagnosed with use of a general urine examination, intravenous urogram, ultrasonography or voiding of calculus. The severity of symptoms were assessed by a verbal six point scale. Results d...