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Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial is to assess whether the presence of a certified therapy dog during dental procedures that require an injection reduces anxiety and improves behavior in pediatric dental patients. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does the presence of a certified therapy dog during dental procedure requiring an injection reduce anxiety and improve behavior in pediatric dental patients? - How do the parents of pediatric dental patients who participate in the study view the use of a certified therapy dog in their child's treatment? - Does the presence of a certified therapy dog result in different concentrations of microbes in the treatment room? All participants will receive standard of care. Researchers will compare the group with a therapy dog present to a group who does not have a therapy dog present to see if heart rate, oxygen saturation, percentage of nitrous oxide administered, and Frankl scores differ between the groups.
In the domain of endocrine gland surgery, thyroidectomy is the most common procedure. Patients report moderate to severe discomfort postoperatively, which is induced by a variety of mechanisms, the most common of which are cervical incision and surgical maneuvers. The other two causes are endotracheal intubation and neck overextension. Incisional pain, odynophagia, dysphagia, neck and shoulder pain have all been reported as sources of discomfort.However, it seems that this discomfort has a time limit, with a considerable decrease in pain scores that will last 24 to 36 hours. Pain is felt more profoundly within the first few hours after surgery, peaking at 6 hours, with patients requesting further analgesic medication. Surgical wound infiltration can inhibit this procedure by preventing the alginate signal from reaching the incision site's receptors. According to the multimodal analgesia trends, magnesium sulfate can be added to the ropivacaine solution. Magnesium acts as an NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor antagonist, inhibiting cerebral sensitization to peripheral pain stimuli while reducing pre-existing hyperalgesia. It becomes evident that this combination could contribute to attain the maximum analgesic efficacy. So, if any superiority of ropivacaine plus magnesium sulphate over ropivacaine could be demonstrated this would be very helpful in providing sufficient analgesic effects with a low incidence of adverse effects, while enhancing the option of one day surgery.
The purposes of this study are twofold: 1) to assess the effect of a cervical sympathetic block on cerebral blood flow in patients suffering from cerebral vasospasm, after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; 2) to evaluate the effect of the sympathetic block on the recovery of the neurological function.
Local anesthetic resistance is commonly reported by patients with EDS. However, there are no objective data on the occurrence of local anesthetic resistance in EDS patients and in healthy volunteers. We propose to collect such objective data on the frequency of drug resistance and whether any problems with local anesthesia are due to initial ineffectiveness or due to its effects dissipating too soon.