Mobbing Exposure of Anaesthesiology Residents in Turkey.

Objective: In recent years, psychological problems that are caused by working conditions, like burn out syndrome, are more commonly observed. In our study, we aimed to evaluate mobbing exposure, factors causing mobbing and precautions for mobbing in residency students who are educated in anaesthesiology and reanimation clinics in Turkey.

Methods: After obtaining consent from the ethics committee, we sent our questionnaires to the secretariats of the departments by postal mail.

A Comparision of the Effect of Sugammadex on the Recovery Period and Postoperative Residual Block in Young Elderly and Middle-Aged Elderly Patients.

Background: The importance of the characteristics of anesthesia and postoperative residual curarization (PORC) in the elderly population should be a growing concern in this century.

Aims: To investigate the effect of sugammadex on the duration of the recovery from neuromuscular blocking agents and postoperative residual curarization in the young elderly and middle-aged elderly patients who underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy, followed by a train of four (TOF) watch monitorization.

Study Design: Prospective clinical trial study.

Uncomplicated prior right ventricular perforation due to a pacemaker lead - an incidental finding during coronary artery bypass surgery.

An elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery was performed on a 50-year-old male with an implanted two-chamber pacemaker in our clinic. Right ventricular adhesion to the inferior pericardium was detected following pericardiotomy. After the institution of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), careful preparation of the adhesion revealed prior perforation due to an indwelling ventricular pacemaker lead.

Thoracic paravertebral block for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: single injection versus multiple injections.

Objective: Thoracic paravertebral blocks (PVBs) have been shown to be effective for analgesia after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with single- and multiple-injection techniques. The efficacy of single-injection PVB was compared with multiple-injection PVB on postoperative analgesia in VATS was studied.

Design: Prospective, randomized study.

Cardiac hydatid cyst of the interatrial septum.

Echinococcal involvement of the heart is a rare occurrence. We report a case of a 46-year-old man with a four-month history of exertional dyspnea and symptoms of atypical angina pectoris, who had a hydatid cyst located in the interatrial septum as well as in the right upper pulmonary lobe. The diagnosis was made by echocardiography, X-ray, and computed tomography.

Effects of inhaled nitric oxide following lung transplantation.

Background: Lung transplantation offers an established therapeutic option for end-stage lung disease. It is associated with several complications, and early allograft failure is one of the most devastating among all. Different studies are focused on an attempt to minimize these complications, especially transplant failure.