BACKGROUND AND AIM: The spinal anesthesia in a cesarean section is still presenting a challenge to the anesthetist in the form of either severe hypotension from large bupivacaine dose or insufficient satisfactory anesthesia level conditions as a resu...
BACKGROUND: Ultrasound guidance has dramatically improved the accuracy of nerve localization, and various adjuvants prolong the block and extend analgesia.
BACKGROUND: Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in cesarean section is carried out by local anesthetics such as bupivacaine or ropivacaine with a limited duration of analgesia. The addition of adjuvants such as clonidine and dexmedetomidine has i...
CONTEXT: Dexamethasone as an adjunct to ropivacaine has shown promising results in prolonging the duration of analgesia in transverse abdominis plane (TAP) block. Only limited studies evaluated the effects of dexamethasone with ropivacaine in TAP blo...
BACKGROUND: Fresh gas flow (FGF) during volatile inhalational agent-based anesthesia is a concern for many reasons. Advancement in anesthesia workstation (WS) and monitoring of anesthesia gas concentrations has led to the feasibility of lower flow sa...
BACKGROUND: Bone cement implantation syndrome (BCIS) is characterized by hypoxia hypotension cardiac arrest. There is not any research that investigated the hemodynamic effects of colloid use during and before cement implantation regarding BCIS devel...
BACKGROUND: Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a measurement defining the mean size of platelets in the blood. There has been no previous study of MPV and the level of platelets in lumbago/sciatica patients.