Delayed respiratory depression associated with 0.15 mg intrathecal morphine for cesarean section: a review of 1915 cases.

Purpose: A low dose of morphine, given intrathecally is an effective postoperative analgesic technique and is widely used in cesarean section. Delayed respiratory depression is the most feared side effect of this technique. However, this side effect has not been thoroughly reported in the obstetric population.

[Single lung ventilation in a pediatric patient using a Fogarty catheter with a hollow center].

A six-year-old boy with left pulmonary segmentation was scheduled for video-assisted thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy. Because he had had repeated pneumonia, and the operation needed good surgical visualization, we used a 4 Fr Fogarty catheter with a hollow center (Fogarty Thru-Lumen Embolectomy: Baxter) as a bronchial blocker for one-lung ventilation. The Fogarty catheter was advanced to the left mainstem bronchus through the 5.

Mini-dose (0.05 mg) intrathecal morphine provides effective analgesia after transurethral resection of the prostate.

Purpose: To determine the optimal dose of intrathecal morphine that produces satisfactory analgesia with minimum side effects in elderly patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).

Methods: In this double-blind prospective study, 42 patients undergoing TURP with spinal anesthesia were allocated to one of three groups. Group A (n = 14) received tetracaine, 10 mg, alone.

Self-Nonself Recognition Activity Extracted from Self-Sterile Eggs of the Ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: (ascidian/fertilization/allo-recognition/acid extract/HPLC).

Eggs of the hermaphrodite, self-sterile ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, were washed with acid seawater (pH 3.2), and the washing solution was then adjusted to pH 8.2.