Publications by authors named "Sachin H Mehta"
Cesarean Delivery Outcomes for Patients with Coronavirus Disease-2019 in the USA.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
February 2025
Introduction: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) may have increased morbidity and mortality in patients having Cesarean delivery (CD) in the USA.
Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients who had CD in 2020 using the national inpatient sample. After stratification by COVID-19 status, demographics, comorbidities, complications, mortality, and costs were compared.
Article Synopsis
- Hypotension is a common issue following subarachnoid anesthesia during cesarean deliveries, and this study aimed to explore if ondansetron, a serotonin blocker, could help prevent it.
- A total of 86 patients were randomly assigned to receive either intravenous ondansetron or a placebo, with their blood pressure and heart rate monitored throughout the procedure.
- The results showed no significant differences in hemodynamic parameters or medication requirements for hypotension between the two groups, indicating that ondansetron does not effectively mitigate the effects of subarachnoid anesthesia in this context.
Purpose: While infraorbital nerve blocks have demonstrated analgesic benefits for pediatric nasal and facial plastic surgery, no studies to date have explored the effect of this regional anesthetic technique on adult postoperative recovery. We designed this study to test the hypothesis that infraorbital nerve blocks combined with a standardized general anesthetic decrease the duration of recovery following outpatient nasal surgery.
Methods: At a tertiary care university hospital, healthy adult subjects scheduled for outpatient nasal surgery were randomly assigned to receive bilateral infraorbital injections with either 0.