A 75-year-old woman was scheduled to undergo an ileus operation under general combined with epidural anesthesia. Preoperative electrocardiogram (ECG) showed first-degree atrioventricular block. The patient received no preoperative antiarrhythmic medication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are growing interests in perioperative preventation of surgical site infection, since the World Health Organization has published surgical safety checklist with the slogan "safe surgery saves lives" in 2008. According to the surgical safety checklist, the surgical team needs to check whether antibiotic prophylaxis has been given within 60 minutes of skin incision. In this study, we investigated whether anesthesiologists in our institution completed the administration of antibiotics before skin incision.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF