Convalescence in the first week after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: results from a detailed questionnaire on morbidity and recovery of daily activities.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate postoperative morbidity and return to daily activities after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Methods: Thirty-five patients were asked to keep daily detailed structured diaries for 1 week.

Results: Half of the patients were discharged from hospital on the 1st postoperative day (POD1); another third were released on POD2.

Efficacy and safety of premedication with oral ketamine for day-case adenoidectomy compared with rectal diazepam/diclofenac and EMLA.

Background: Because of its pain-attenuating and sedative properties oral ketamine has been used as premedication in children and adults. We wanted to compare in children scheduled for adenoidectomy safety and efficacy of oral ketamine with a premedication that causes similar preoperative sedation and relief of pain at the venepuncture site. We also evaluated the effect of i.

Effect of pre-treatment with intravenous atropine or glycopyrrolate on cardiac arrhythmias during halothane anaesthesia for adenoidectomy in children.

We studied the effect of anticholinergics on the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias during paediatric anaesthesia. ASA I-II children (n = 77) undergoing adenoidectomy were randomly allocated to three groups. Intravenous atropine 0.

Leakage of fluid around low-pressure tracheal tube cuffs.

The aim of the study was to evaluate leakage of liquid past the low-pressure cuffs of tracheal tubes. Ten samples of each of nine different types of tubes were tested in a PVC mock trachea, using intracuff pressures of 20, 30, 40 and 50 cmH2O. In five types of tubes, 6-10 cuffs allowed profuse leakage (> 20 ml water in 5 min) even at the highest intracuff pressure, i.

Ranitidine suspension or famotidine resoriblette and gastric fluid volume and pH.

We studied the effect of two new formulations of H2-receptor antagonists on gastric fluid pH and volume. Forty-five healthy, elective adult in-patients in three study groups, 15 in each, were premedicated using oral diazepam 10 mg with 100 ml of a dose of water soluble suspension of ranitidine 300 mg with sodium citrate/bicarbonate, or a resoriblette of famotidine 40 mg, or placebo. Gastric fluid samples were obtained by blind aspiration after anaesthesia induction, 50-70 min from premedication, and again 90 min from premedication.