In general, aged patients are frail and sensitive to anesthesia and surgery. Clinical practice indicates that being more sensitive to anesthetic drugs and more susceptible to the side effects, elderly requires usually lower doses to reach the clinical anesthesia. This is mainly associated with the ...
has been developed in the USSR. With this device, anesthesia is achieved by applying an electric current to the brain. The advantages of this type of anesthesia are the quick induction of anesthesia, a short recovery period, and the relatively harmless nature of the side effects experienced by...
General anesthesia puts your whole body in a deep sleep-like state while regional anesthesia numbs only a specific part of the body, like from the waist down. Although you are not asleep as with a general anesthetic, typically the doctor will give you a medication that relaxes you while you...
The case of a 23 years old woman, affected by the Cohen syndrome, who underwent general anesthesia for extensive dental surgery, is reported. The Cohen syndrome is an autosomal recessive syndrome that causes mental retardation, obesity, short stature as well as oral, ocular, and limb anomalies....
Postoperative complications and side effects of general and regional anesthetic methods have been discussed. With this knowledge the internist can plan for optimal pre-operative medical intervention, provide advice to the anesthesiologist on how anesthesia may affect the patient’s medical condition, and ...
Local anaesthetic wound infiltration after internal fixation of femoral neck fractures: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial in 33 patients Pain control may assist early mobilisation after internal fixation of femoral neck fractures. Systemic opioids have significant side effects in elderly pat... ...
3, 4 Because elderly patients are more sensitive to general anaesthetics, they might be more susceptible to unnecessary overdosing, which in turn could exacerbate cognitive side effects.33, 34 Because anaesthetic sensitivity varies among individuals, utilizing neurophysiological monitoring to tailor the ...
Only slightly less ridiculous to modern ears is the mid-19th-century belief that general anesthesia via ether or chloroform, introduced by James Young Simpson in 1847, must be withheld from women giving birth. The reason? Genesis 3.16 enjoins women to bring forth new life in suffering. Forget...
However, it is unknown whether or not the AEP latency change during anesthesia can reflect the effects of general anesthetics on nerve fibers and synapses. Although some auditory neurons exhibited paradoxical latency shifts (i.e., the spike latency increases with acoustic intensity increase) in bat...
Objective To compare the anesthesia and postoperative analgesia effects of sufentanil combined with propofol for general anesthesia with the three sterile and disposable laryngeal masks in the elderly undergoing hip surgery.Methods A total of 150 elderly patients undergoing hip surgery were enrolled as the...