The comparison of levobupivacaine in continuous or single dose spinal anesthesia for transurethral resection of prostate surgery.

Background: The aim of the study is to compare the efficacy of levobupivacaine induced continuous spinal anesthesia (CSA) versus single dose spinal anesthesia (SDSA) in patients who are planned to undergo transurethral prostate resection.

Methods: Sixty years or older, ASA I-II or III, 50 patients were included in the study. 12.

Postoperative complications after abdominal surgery in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Background/aims: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a well-known independent risk factor for the development of postoperative pulmonary and cardiac complications after thoracic or nonthoracic surgery. We aimed to determine the risk factors and complications of abdominal surgery in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

Material And Methods: Thirty-two patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease out of 89 patients who underwent abdominal surgery at Zonguldak Karaelmas University Medical School Hospital enrolled in the study.

Effects of acute carbon monoxide poisoning on the P-wave and QT interval dispersions.

Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate atrial conduction and ventricular repolarization inhomogeneities using P-wave dispersion (Pwd) and QT dispersion (QTd) analyses in acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

Methods: Sixty patients were retrospectively included in this case-controlled study. Thirty acute CO poisoning patients were assigned to the Group with acute CO poisoning (ACOP).

Effectiveness of dexmedetomidine in reducing bleeding during septoplasty and tympanoplasty operations.

Study Objective: To determine the effect of dexmedetomidine on intraoperative bleeding during septoplasty and tympanoplasty operations.

Design: Randomized, placebo-controlled study.

Setting: Univesity medical center.

Effectiveness of the jaw-thrust maneuver in opening the airway: a flexible fiberoptic endoscopic study.

Objective: A prospective study was carried out to find the exact site of obstruction in sleep model and to quantitatively evaluate the effect of Jaw-thrust maneuver (JTM) in opening the obstructed airway using flexible fiberoptic endoscope.

Methods: Twenty-eight ASA physical status I or II patients with snoring symptom undergoing elective surgery were included. The patients were held in supine position without hyperextension of the neck.

Preoperative multimodal administration of morphine in arthroscopic surgery.

Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to demonstrate the possible effects of preoperative intra-articular, intravenous, or intrathecal administration of morphine on postoperative pain management.

Materials: Sixty patients undergoing arthroscopic menisectomy were included. Spinal anesthesia was performed in the lateral decubitus position with 3 ml of 0.

The postoperative analgesic effect of tramadol when used as subcutaneous local anesthetic.

Recently, it has been shown that tramadol was an effective local anesthetic in minor surgery. In this study, its efficacy for relieving postoperative pain was evaluated. Forty patients undergoing minor surgery (lipoma excision and scar revision) under local anesthesia were included.

A prospective randomized study comparing perioperative outcome variables after epidural or general anesthesia for lumbar disc surgery.

General and regional anesthesia (spinal and epidural) can be performed successfully for lumbar disc surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the superiority of general anesthesia or epidural anesthesia techniques in lumbar laminectomy and discectomy. Sixty patients undergoing lumbar partial hemilaminectomy and discectomy were randomly divided into two groups receiving standardized general anesthesia (GA) or epidural anesthesia (EA).