Attenuating the Pressor Response to Laryngoscopy and Endotracheal Intubation in Controlled Hypertensives: The Effect of Combining Lidocaine and Magnesium Sulphate.

Background: Laryngoscopy and intubation result in a pressor response which may be deleterious especially in hypertensives, resulting in potentially harmful effects. Many drugs have been used to attenuate this undesirable pressor response to laryngoscopy and intubation in hypertensives; amongst them are magnesium alone in different doses or in combination with lidocaine. However, drug combinations have been found to be more effective than single drug therapy.

A comparative study of ketamine gargle and lidocaine jelly application for the prevention of postoperative throat pain following general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation.

Background: Postoperative throat pain is an established complication of general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation. We thus sought to determine the incidence of postoperative throat pain and the efficacy of lidocaine jelly and ketamine gargle in the prevention of postoperative throat pain.

Materials And Method: One hundred and fifty ASA I or II, male: female ratio of 1:2 patients, aged18 -64 year, scheduled for elective general surgery requiring general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation were randomly recruited into two groups, ketamine (K group) and lidocaine (L group).

Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in the intensive care unit: An experience from a tertiary hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one the most commonly performed procedures in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, success rate of CPR vary widely from 3.1% to 16.

Evolving pattern of spinal anaesthesia in stable eclamptic patients undergoing caesarean section at University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria.

Background: Eclampsia is still associated with high maternal and perinatal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, especially in resource poor countries with limited access to perinatal and critical care facilities. The ideal method of anaesthesia for caesarean section in eclamptics is not generally agreed upon.

Methods: Review of the patients' case notes as well as records of the institution's Labour Ward Theatre, Intensive Care Unit and Postnatal Ward was carried out between January 2011 and December 2012.

Comparative hemodynamic advantages of subarachnoid administration of atypical and non-atypical opioids.

Background: Subarachnoid administration of opioids such as pethidine and fentanyl had been proven safe but that oftramadol has been controversial. Tramadol is cheap and readily available, hence the need to further evaluate its intrathecal safety.

Purpose: The study aimed at determining the hemodynamic and side effect profile of intrathecal tramadol.