Background: The authors determined prospectively the safety of continuous spinal
anesthesia combined with general anesthesia and the efficacy of postoperative pain relief …

The intraoperative effects of continuous spinal anaesthesia, and the efficacy of postoperative
continuous spinal analgesia in 48 elderly high risk patients undergoing major abdominal …

Small bowel metastases from primary carcinoma of the lung are very uncommon and occur
usually in patients with terminal stage disease. These metastases are usually asymptomatic …

OBJECTIVE:: To investigate the impact of 2 postoperative analgesic regimens on heart rate
variability in patients who underwent thoracotomy. DESIGN:: A prospective, randomized trial …

Local anaesthesia combined with conscious sedation is becoming a popular technique for
implantation of cardioverter-defibrillator devices. Propofol was given to provide loss of …

The management of surgical embolization of a post‐traumatic carotid‐cavernous fistula is
reported in this study. The procedure was successfully performed with the aid of a fibreoptic …

Aim: The lack of standardized tools limits the diagnosis οf postoperative delirium (POD) in
the Greek population. Our aim was the translation and the cultural adaptation of the …

Materials and Methods: Sixty healthy, young patients undergoing internal fixation surgery for
fractured long bones under standard general anaesthesia were randomly divided into two …

Flossos1, George Vretzakis1, 1Cardiac Anesthesia Unit, Anesthesiology Clinic, University of
Thessaly, Biopolis, Larissa, Greece; 2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Democritus …

Aim: To see whether the anaesthesia regimen chosen for total knee replacement surgery
made any difference to the quality of postoperative analgesia during the first 48 hours …