Effect of timing of intraoperative administration of paracetamol on postoperative shivering: A randomised double-blind controlled trial.

Background And Aims: Paracetamol (PCM) has an anti-shivering effect and may also exacerbate intraoperative hypothermia. This study compares the incidence of shivering as the primary outcome and the incidence of perioperative hypothermia (<36°C) and the time to the analgesic requirement as secondary outcomes when PCM was administered after induction of anaesthesia or towards the end of surgery.

Methods: In this randomised study, 225 adult patients of either gender undergoing elective surgical procedures under general anaesthesia with an expected duration of surgery of 1-4 h were studied.

Identification of sheep () meat by alkaline lysis-loop mediated isothermal amplification technique targeting mitochondrial D-loop region.

Identification of meat species origin using reliable techniques is a critical requirement for ensuring label compliance, protection of consumer preference and prevention of fraudulence in the meat trade. Although a plethora of protein and DNA based meat species identification techniques are in vogue, need for rapid test suitable for under-resourced laboratories catering point-of-care (PoC) services was construed. Present study deals with development of rapid sheep () meat identification technique using DNA extraction by alkaline lysis (AL) and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) technique.