The Impact of Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy in Prolonged Major Abdominal Surgery on Extravascular Lung Water and Oxygenation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: A growing interest had been paid to goal-directed fluid therapy (GDT) in abdominal surgery; however, its impact on the respiratory profile was not well investigated.

Aim: We evaluated the impact of GDT on postoperative extravascular lung water and oxygenation after prolonged major abdominal surgery.

Methods: A randomised, controlled study was conducted in Kasr Alainy hospital from April 2016 till December 2017 including 120 adult patients scheduled for prolonged major abdominal surgery.

Evaluation of gastric residual volume in fasting diabetic patients using gastric ultrasound.

Background: Diabetic patients are claimed to have high risk of delayed gastric emptying; however, the evidence concerning residual gastric volume in fasting diabetic patients is not consistent. The aim of this work is to evaluate residual gastric volume in fasting diabetic patients for elective surgery.

Methods: Fifty patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia were included in the study.

Hemodynamic effects of lateral tilt before and after spinal anesthesia during cesarean delivery: an observational study.

Background: Post-spinal hypotension is a common maternal complication during cesarean delivery. Aortocaval compression by the gravid uterus has been assumed as a precipitating factor for post-spinal hypotension. The role of left lateral tilting position in improving maternal cardiac output after subarachnoid block (SAB) is unclear.