SPINAL ANESTHESIA IN DAY SURGERY - EARLY EXPERIENCES.

Day surgery is a term that refers to performing an operation under anesthesia without needing to stay in the hospital for more than 24 hours. Day surgery has many advantages over surgery that involves a multiple-day hospital stay. Anesthesia for day surgery must have a rapid onset of action, a rapid cessation of action, and be free of, or have minimal side effects.

Influence of tranexamic acid on postoperative autologous blood retransfusion in primary total hip and knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Postoperatively shed blood salvage is commonly used to reduce allogenic blood transfusion in patients undergoing total hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA). Autologous blood retransfusion is not devoid of risk. We hypothesized that adding tranexamic acid (TXA) to a restrictive blood transfusion protocol would reduce the need for postoperative autologous blood retransfusion in primary knee and hip arthroplasty.

Measuring cardiac output during dobutamine infusion after off-pump coronary artery bypass: comparison of transesophageal echo-Doppler and thermodilution.

Aim: To compare transesophageal echo-Doppler with thermodilution method for measuring cardiac output during dobutamine infusion after off-pump coronary artery bypass.

Method: Using transesophageal echo-Doppler and thermodilution methods, we measured cardiac output in 30 patients after off-pump coronary artery bypass, immediately before and 5, 15, and 30 min after the introduction of continuous dobutamine infusion (3 microg/kg/min). Paired t-test and Bland-Altman analysis were used to compare the results obtained by two methods in this prospective study.