Publications by authors named "Pornthep Premsamran"

Objective: To demonstrate the characteristics, outcomes, and the circumstances associated with intraoperative recall of awareness.

Material And Method: Relevant data of intra-operative recall of awareness were extracted from the Thai Anesthesia Incident Monitoring study (Thai AIMS) database of 1996 incident reports and 2537 incidents which were conducted among 51 hospitals throughout Thailand from January to June, 2007. Details regarding patients, surgical, anesthetic and systematic factors were recorded in a structured data record form.

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Background And Rationale: Size of spinal needle may be a factor which influences the success rate of spinal anesthesia.

Objectives: To compare learning curves of using 25G and 27G quincke spinal needle for spinal anesthesia.

Setting: Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.

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