Publications by authors named "Showkat H Nengroo"

Background: Preoperative patient education is an essential responsibility of any healthcare provider, especially an anaesthetist, and is beneficial for perioperative outcome. A smooth emergence and extubation is a clinical skill that needs to be mastered by an anaesthetist. The aim of this study was to analyse whether a detailed preoperative patient education improves the quality of and preparedness for extubation at emergence from general anaesthesia.

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Background: Obturator nerve (ON) stimulation during transurethral resection of lateral and posterolateral bladder wall tumor under spinal anesthesia may lead to obturator reflex, adductor contraction, and leg jerking with complications such as bleeding, bladder perforation, or incomplete tumor resection. Our study was carried out to obtain successful block of ON using ultrasound (US)-guided technique with or without nerve stimulation in patients undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) under spinal anesthesia.

Aims: The aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of two different techniques in blocking ON and adductor spasm during TURBT.

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Background: Several blood conservation strategies have been tried with the purpose of reducing homologons blood transfusion. PATIENTS #ENTITYSTARTX00026;

Methods: In a prospective randomized study, the potential benefits of acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) with autologous transfusion were investigated as a blood conservation technique in surgical excision of intracranial meningioma. Over a period of 2 years, 40 patients undergoing excision of intracranial meningioma were randomly assigned to two groups of 20 patients each.

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