Comparison of continuous interscalene block and subacromial infusion of local anesthetic for postoperative analgesia after open shoulder surgery.

Purpose: This study compared the efficacy of continuous interscalene block (CISB) and subacromial infusion of local anesthetic (CSIA) for postoperative analgesia after open shoulder surgery.

Methods: This randomized, prospective, double-blinded, single-center study included 40 adult patients undergoing open shoulder surgery. All patients received a standardized general anesthetic.

The effect of intraarticular levobupivacaine and bupivacaine injection on the postoperative pain management in total knee artroplastic surgery.

Objective: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is associated with considerable postoperative pain. We compared the effects of intraoperative intraarticular levobupivacaine and bupivacaine on postoperative analgesia and analgesic consumption after total knee arthroplasty.

Methods: Sixty ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) physical status II-III, 18-75 years old patients scheduled for unilateral TKA were included in this study.

[Plasma levels of interleukin-10 and nitric oxide in response to two different desflurane anesthesia flow rates].

Objective: This study investigated interleukin-10 and nitric oxide plasma levels following surgery to determine whether there is a correlation between these two variables and if different desflurane anesthesia flow rates influence nitric oxide and interleukin-10 concentrations in circulation.

Materials And Methods: Forty patients between 18 and 70 years and ASA I-II physical status who were scheduled to undergo thyroidectomy were enrolled in the study.

Interventions: Patients were allocated into two groups to receive two different desflurane anesthesia flow rates: high flow (Group HF) and low flow (Group LF).

Plasma levels of interleukin-10 and nitric oxide in response to two different desflurane anesthesia flow rates.

Objective: This study investigated interleukin-10 and nitric oxide plasma levels following surgery to determine whether there is a correlation between these two variables and if different desflurane anesthesia flow rates influence nitric oxide and interleukin-10 concentrations in circulation.

Materials And Methods: Forty patients between 18 and 70 years and ASA I-II physical status who were scheduled to undergo thyroidectomy were enrolled in the study.

Interventions: Patients were allocated into two groups to receive two different desflurane anesthesia flow rates: high flow (Group HF) and low flow (Group LF).

Retrospective Evaluation of Anaesthesia Techniques for Hip Replacement Operations.

Objective: In this retrospective study, we evaluated the demographic characteristics of patients that underwent hip replacement surgery in our orthopedic clinic. Associated diseases, preoperative laboratory findings, intraoperative findings, and the effect of admission or refusal to the intensive care unit on postoperative mortality and morbidity were recorded. Furthermore, we tried to identify surgical and anaesthetic methods applied, intraoperative hemodynamic changes, length of stay in the post-anaesthesia care unit, and postoperative complications.

Patient-controlled sedation in orthopedic surgery under regional anesthesia: a new approach in procedural sedation.

Background And Objectives: Regional anesthesia is a commonly used technique in orthopedic procedures. Sedation should reduce the patient's anxiety and fear while increasing regional anesthesia quality. This study evaluated the hemodynamic changes, level of sedation, both patients' and surgeons' levels of satisfaction and potential side effects in patient-controlled sedation using propofol.

Pre-emptive analgesic and haemodynamic efficacy of combined spinal-epidural neostigmine delivery.

Objective: To determine the effect of pre-emptive epidurally administered 4 or 8 mcg/kg neostigmine on analgesia, mean arterial pressure, heart rate and side effects in intra and postoperative period.

Study Design: Randomized, double blinded, controlled clinical trial.

Place And Duration Of Study: Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Turkey, from January to December 2008.

Characteristics of unilateral spinal anesthesia at different speeds of intrathecal injection.

Purpose: Unilateral spinal anesthesia is performed to provide restriction of sympathetic and motor block. The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of different speeds of intrathecal injection on unilateral spinal anesthesia.

Methods: The patient cohort comprised 66 patients who were placed in the lateral position with the side to be operated on dependent.

Low-dose ropivacaine or levobupivacaine walking spinal anesthesia in ambulatory inguinal herniorrhaphy.

Purpose: The purpose of our study was to compare the equipotent doses of ropivacaine and levobupivacaine for walk-out criteria and the characteristics of spinal anesthesia in inguinal herniorrhaphy surgery.

Methods: Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia was performed. Adult patients were randomly allocated to receive 5 mg 0.

Comparison of 0.25% levobupivacaine and 0.25% bupivacaine for posterior approach interscalene brachial plexus block.

Purpose: This study compares the onset time and quality of posterior approach interscalene brachial plexus block produced by 0.25% levobupivacaine and 0.25% bupivacaine.

Selective spinal anesthesia for inguinal herniorrhaphy.

Objective: To determine the characteristic profiles of 2 hypobaric spinal anesthetic solutions for selective spinal anesthesia in inguinal herniorrhaphy.

Methods: The study took place in the general surgery room of Anesthesia Department, Ankara Numune Research and Training Hospital between May and July 2005 as a prospective, randomized and double-blind trial. Sixty-one ASA I-III patients scheduled for inguinal herniorrhaphy were randomly divided into 2 groups.

Anesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: comparative evaluation--desflurane/sevoflurane vs. propofol.

Laparoscopic techniques, have rapidly increased in popularity because of its various benefits. They are widely used in day-case surgical operations and are extensively published. However, postoperative nausea vomiting (PONV) is a commonly observed phenomenon after laparoscopic procedures.

The use of ketamine or ketamine-midazolam for adenotonsillectomy.

Background: Ketamine's role in clinical anaesthesia is developing as a result of the evolving concepts of its mechanism of action and the advantages of its alternative routes of administration. In this study, we aimed to investigate the frequency and severity of adverse effects, specifically emergence phenomena and vomiting, when ketamine with or without midazolam used as a sole anaesthetic.

Methods: One hundred children, aged between 3 and 10 years, scheduled for adenotonsillectomy were studied.

Neuroaxial anesthesia in a patient with progressive systemic sclerosis : case presentation and review of the literature on systemic sclerosis.

Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc), a progressive disease characterized by excessive accumulation of connective tissue components. Although most patients have long survival, some of them progress rapidly to death. Pulmonary system involvement and pulmonary hypertension are the most frequent cause of death.