Health Sci Rep
April 2024
Background And Aims: Knee support, frequently made from sponge, is used to reduce injury. Sponge has less elasticity and durability compared with natural rubber. To our knowledge, there was no study that demonstrated the effectiveness of natural rubber and sponge in prevention of injury in children with bleeding disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess improvements in the validity and reliability of novices' skills in performing ultrasonography for airway assessment.
Patients And Methods: A learning cohort study was conducted with 20 anesthesiology residents and 10 volunteers in the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University. The four parameters of airway assessment were soft tissue thickness at the level of 1) hyoid bone (STT-HY), 2) true vocal cords (STT-VC), 3) thyroid isthmus (STT-TI), and 4) suprasternal notch (STT-SN).
Background: Thoracic epidural placement (TEP) using the conventional anatomic landmark-based technique is technically challenging, may require multiple attempts, and is associated with a high failure rate (12-40%). We hypothesized that real-time ultrasound guidance would be superior in the "first-pass" success rate of TEP, when compared with the conventional technique.
Methods: This prospective, randomized, superiority trial was conducted in a University hospital, and recruited 96 patients undergoing elective major abdominal or thoracic surgery and scheduled to receive a TEP for postoperative analgesia.
Objective: Gabapentin has an antipruritus effect, which its efficacy in reducing pruritus induced by intrathecal morphine has not been well documented. The purpose of the present study was to know if a single smaller dose of gabapentin could decrease the intrathecal morphine-induced pruritus.
Material And Method: One hundred sixty eight patients from the 180 recruited patients fulfilled the trial requirement and were scheduled for orthopedic surgery under spinal anesthesia using 0.
J Med Assoc Thai
December 2004
Purpose: To describe the documentation of pain assessment and management in the first 72 hrs postoperatively.
Designs: Retrospective descriptive study
Material And Method: Four hundred and twenty five hospital charts in December 2002 were audited to reveal the quality of postoperative pain assessment and documentation. Scores above 21 from the possible maximum of 28 (75%) were accepted for the review.