Postoperative pain relief has improved in recent years with the development of new
analgesics, additional routes of administration and the appearance of the hypothesis of pre …

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is often a painful operation. Fifty-eight
patients who underwent ACL reconstruction using patellar tendon autograft received either a …

The use of opioids for postoperative analgesia may be limited by side effects such as
nausea and vomiting. Because ondansetron, a selective serotonin type 3 (5 …

All values, except incidences in percentages, are means 2 SD. OR= operating room, PACU=
postanesthesia recovery unit.*= statistically significant. pressure) of isobaric versus …

Neural blockade using local anesthetics is indicated in the critical care patient to provide
analgesia for painful conditions, anesthesia for invasive procedures, sympathetic nerve …

Background Sympathetic nerve blocks relieve pain in certain chronic pain states, but the role
of the sympathetic pathways in acute pain is unclear. Thus the authors wanted to determine …

Fifteen infants were studied to evaluate the effect of profound hypothermia (16° C to 18° C)
and hypothermia plus thiopental on the electroencephalogram (EEG) prior to circulatory …

Forty lakes in the Colorado Front Range were sampled to examine the relationship between
water chemistry and the distributions and shell characteristics of Pisidium species. Alkalinity …

The effect of atracurium-vecuronium combinations on the onset and duration of
neuromuscular blockade was investigated in 30 adult patients undergoing general …

The hemodynamic effects of three nondepolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant drug regimens
were compared during the induction of general anesthesia in 64 patients with valvular heart …