BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Reducing anxiety is very important before operation. Preoperative visit and use of premedication are popular methods to achieve this goal, but the role of anxiolytic premedication remains unclear and postoperative side-effects may result from routine premedication. Citrus aurantium is used as an alternative medicine in some countries to treat anxiety, and recently the ...

Endotracheal intubation, a common procedure in newborn care, is associated with pain and cardiorespiratory instability. The use of premedication reduces the adverse physiological responses of bradycardia, systemic hypertension, intracranial hypertension and hypoxia. Perhaps more importantly, premedication decreases the pain and discomfort associated with the procedure. All newborn infants, ther...

Objective: This review article aims to understand the basic airway anatomy, bronchoscopy in high risk patients, premedication and performing procedure patients on anticoagulation. Basic is done by pulmonologists, intensivists, thoracic surgery, anesthesiologists. After a literature search from several databases, including PubMed, Google Scholar, Medline, Science Direct, Cochrane Library, Update...

Preoperative assessment and premedication represent important preparatory steps to ensuring a smooth and effective induction of anaesthesia. A thorough review of the child's medical history, previous anaesthetics, medications, allergies and family history is essential to design the optimal anaesthetic for the child and his/her surgery. Risks must be addressed with the parents as appropriate bas...

The purpose of this audit was to find out the efficiency of our system in providing premedication to surgical day care patients. This audit was conducted in the Surgical Day Care (SDC) Unit of a University Hospital. All patients anaesthetised in the SDC unit on day care basis were included in this audit. Nursing notes and preoperative orders of all patients to be anaesthetised were checked to s...

Two consecutive studies were undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture as an antiemetic used in addition to premedication with opioids in patients undergoing minor gynaecological operations. In the first study 25 of the 50 patients underwent acupuncture immediately after premedication with 100 mg meptazinol, the rest receiving the drug alone, and in the second 75 patients were all...

OBJECTIVE Current regulatory guidelines advise 5-7 days of folic acid supplementation prior to pemetrexed. Although taking folic acid during and after pemetrexed therapy is important, it remains unclear whether premedication is truly necessary, particularly as it can be inconvenient for patients, can contribute to their anxiety by delaying chemotherapy, and can create challenges in scheduling c...

BACKGROUND Propofol-ketamine anesthesia is a room air, spontaneous ventilation (RASV), dissociative intravenous (IV) sedation technique reported to have a near-zero postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) rate. Clonidine premedication has been reported to control blood pressure intra- and postoperatively, as well as to reduce the requirements for hypnotic agents. The bispectral index (BIS) mon...

BACKGROUND Neonatal intubation is a stressful procedure that requires premedication to improve intubation conditions and reduce stress and adverse physiological responses. Premedication used during the INSURE (INtubation, SURfactant therapy, Extubation) procedure should have a very short duration of action with restoration of spontaneous breathing within a few minutes. AIMS To determine the b...

Background Dexmedetomidine has been used as a premedication in children primarily via nasal route. Concerns regarding bioavailability and onset of action has restricted its use via oral route. However, oral route is natural and more pleasurable compared to nasal. We compared dexemedetomidine given as a premedication via nasal and oral routes in children undergoing minor surgical procedures. Met...