Heart rhythm disturbances are being increasingly recognized during the postoperative period. While many are transient and short lived without altering the recovery phase after cardiac or non-cardiac surgery, they do have the potential to pose a threat to patient’s health, prolong hospital stay, and in a minority of patients may even cause death. Continuous monitoring is becoming the standard of...

It has been suggested that dipyrimadole might be effective in reducing the incidence of thrombosis by interfering with both platelet clumping and the early stages of blood clotting. Emmons et al (1965 a & b) found that dipyrimadole inhibited thrombus formation in injured rabbit vessels in vivo, and reduced platelet stickiness in vitro, and they suggested that dipyrimadole might be a useful agen...

We present a case of post-operative pneumoperitoneum (PP), which persisted for eight weeks. Postoperative retained air is the most common cause of PP. It does not require a surgical intervention and thus is defined as a 'non-surgical PP'. The etiological factors contributing to the duration of the postoperative PP are controversial but the longest time described in the literature is 24 days. We...

Anesthesia result in a variety of metabolic and endocrine responses, but conventional wisdom maintains that anesthetic technique has little long-term effect on patient outcomes. There is accumulating evidence that, on contrary, anesthetic management may in fact exert a number of longer-term effects in postoperative outcome. Here, we review the most topical aspects of anaesthetic management whic...

ON examining the charts of patients in any surgical ward a rapid rise of temperature is often noticeable, beginninig usuall) a few hours after operation and lasting one to five days. This pyrexia follows the majority of operations-not merely in cases suffering from some inflammatory malacdy requiring operation, but notably in non-infected cases. For the purpose of writing this paper I have inve...

It is by no means uncommon for the physician to be asked to see a patient who has recently undergone operation, and to find that there has been some complication in the chest. The possible complications are fairly numerous and their treatment differs considerably. It is also a fact that many of the more serious complications can be prevented, or the duration of incapacity can be considerably sh...

background & aim: nowadays, new methods related to pain management have emerged. however, it has been reported in studies that post-operative pain management is inadequate. the purpose of this study was determined to pain levels of the patients after gynecologic surgery and nursing interventions. methods & materials: this descriptive study was undertaken as a multicenter study in the gynecologi...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of sub-tenon block (preemptive analgesia) following general anesthesia and before the beginning of scleral buckling and cryopexy in retinal detachment (rd) surgery on decreasing intra- and post-operative complications. methods: sixty eight patients scheduled for rd surgical repair with asa (american society of anesthesiologists) class і or ii were enrolled in t...