Publications by authors named "F D Erkent"
Objective: Cases of obesity are rising in parallel with the number of obese patients scheduled for anesthesia in which difficult airway is encountered. Video laryngoscopes (VL) have emerged as a popular device for the management of patients with difficult airway. The present study compares the success rate of intubation in obese patients using stylet in the ramped position using either a McGrath or C-MAC VLs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to investigate the effects of recurrent sevoflurane anesthesia on cognitive functions in Alzheimer Disease.
Materials And Methods: Rats were divided into 4 groups as followed: control (Group C), sevoflurane (Group S), Alzheimer's (Group A) and Alzheimer's + sevoflurane (Group AS)]. Cognitive functions were evaluated with Radial Arm Maze Test (RAMT).
Background And Purpose: Postoperative pain is a significant problem in thoracotomy patients. Our aim in this study was to investigate the relationship between postoperative pain and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) which is a marker of acute inflammatory response.
Materials And Methods: Thoracic epidural or intravenous analgesia was administered to thoracotomy patients who elected to undergo a planned surgery.
Aim: We want to investigate the protective effects of apelin-13 on myocardial ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury.
Material And Methods: 30 Wistar Albino rat were divided into 5 groups (n:6), namely control group (C), diabetes group (D), diabetes+apelin-13 group (DA), diabetes+I/R group (DIR) and diabetes I/R+apelin-13 group (DIR-A). Rats were subjected to 30‑min ischemia and 90‑min reperfusion.
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of levosimendan and thymoquinone (TQ) on lung injury after myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R).
Materials And Methods: Twenty-four Wistar albino rats were included in the study. The animals were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 experimental groups.