Our recent experience using spinal anaesthesia for paediatric surgical procedures is reviewed. In 1984, 30 patients aged seven weeks to 13 years were anaesthetised in this manner. Lumbar puncture failed in four of 34 patients, 12 required sedation during the operative course and 11 required light general anaesthesia to complete these procedures. Tetracaine one per cent or bupivacaine 0.75 per c...

PURPOSE To evaluate adverse drug events (ADEs) resulting in emergency department visits in an eye hospital. METHOD Emergency department visits at Farabi Eye Hospital were assessed for a 7-day period. The patients' eye disorders and drug history were evaluated to detect ADEs. RESULTS Of 1631 emergency visits, 5 (0.3%, 95% CI: 0.13-0.71%) were drug related. Tetracaine eye drops accounted for ...

Intramembrane charge movements were studied in intact, voltageclamped frog (Rana temporaria) skeletal muscle fibers in external solutions made increasingly hypertonic by addition of sucrose. The marked dependence of membrane capacitance on test potential persisted with increases in extracellnlar sucrose concentration between 350 and 500 mM. Charge movements continued to show distinguishable ear...

1H NMR spectroscopic studies have been carried out for multidispersed vesicles of DMPC and DOPC in the presence of Eu(NO3)3 and anesthetics (tetracaine and lidocaine). 1H NMR signals of DMPC vesicles disappeared, while those of DOPC did not, in the coexistence of Eu(NO3)3 and the anesthetics. An addition of EDTA-Na4 to this solution regained the signals of DMPC vesicles, implying cancellation o...