Background: Shivering is one of the common problems in spinal anesthesia. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of intrathecal fentanyl (25 μg) on incidence and severity of intraoperative and postoperative shivering. Methods: A double-blind randomized controlled study was conducted in eighty healthy women (ASA Physical status I) scheduled for elective cesarean section u...

Aims: Postoperative shivering is unpleasant and annoying for the patient, occurring in up to 65% of cases undergoing general anesthesia. Various mechanisms were suggested postoperative shivering. Shivering after anesthesia can cause complications, such as cardiovascular conditions, bleeding, infection. This study compared effects dexamethasone, pethidine, ketamine on prevention Methods & Ma...

Inadvertent postoperative hypothermia is common among patients in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Shivering traditionally is attributed to hypothermia, but it is not always thermoregulatory. The exact impact of hypothermia and shivering on standard PACU monitoring parameters of patients has not been sufficiently studied. The present study included 170 orthopedic surgical patients. On PACU ...

BACKGROUND Shivering is one of the common problems in spinal anesthesia. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of intrathecal fentanyl (25 µg) on incidence and severity of intraoperative and postoperative shivering. METHODS A double-blind randomized controlled study was conducted in eighty healthy women (ASA Physical status I) scheduled for elective cesarean section un...

background: shivering is one of the common problems in spinal anesthesia. the objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of intrathecal fentanyl (25 μg) on incidence and severity of intraoperative and postoperative shivering. methods: a double-blind randomized controlled study was conducted in eighty healthy women (asa physical status i) scheduled for elective cesarean section un...

Postoperative shivering (PAS) is uncomfortable for patients and potentially risky. In this observational trial we sought to identify independent risk factors for PAS after general anesthesia. Potential risk factors for PAS were recorded in 1340 consecutive patients. Signs of shivering, peripheral and core temperature, and thermal comfort were recorded in the postanesthetic care unit. The data w...

Background: The aim of this prospective, comparative and randomized study was to compare the inhalational anaesthetics isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane in pediatric patients undergoing craniotomy for excision of supratentorial tumours. We assessed early postoperative recovery outcome, intra-operative haemodynamics and degree of brain swelling, as well as postoperative vomiting and shiveri...

Shivering is a common postoperative complication and can lead to important interferences in monitorization, addition causing discomfort the patient increased oxygen consumption. Although frequently related hypothermia, it occur normothermic patients, fact that raises importance of using pharmacological strategies for its prophylaxis treatment. The effectiveness alpha-2 agonists preventing this ...

BACKGROUND Postanaesthetic shivering is one of the most common unpleasant complications in patients. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of doxapram, ketamine and meperidine in prevention of shivering after anaesthesia. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this randomized, double-blind clinical trial, 120 patients aged between 20 - 45 years old under general anaesthesia were enr...