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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the addition of a medication called epinephrine to spinal medications prolongs the duration of the anesthesia. The medication standardly used in spinal anesthesia is a local anesthetic (bupivacaine) and an opiate pain medication (morphine). These medications typically last about 2 hours. The investigators want to determine if adding epinephrine to the spinal medications prolongs the anesthetic without side effects. A longer duration of anesthesia may be useful in prolonged repeat cesarean section. Epinephrine is known to prolong the action of some local anesthetics, but the investigators want to specifically study combining it with the medications the investigators use regularly for cesarean section. You may qualify to take part in this research study because you are having a repeat cesarean section. Repeat cesarean sections sometimes last longer than 2 hours. The investigators want to determine if epinephrine will prolong the anesthetic.
Spinal anesthesia is a common technique for providing anesthesia for knee joint replacement surgery. The investigators wish to demonstrate that using a lower approach to spinal anesthetic (Taylor's approach of L5-S1) causes less low blood pressure while still providing adequate anesthesia for knee joint replacement surgery than a higher approach (L3-L4).
The purpose of this study is to assess, in real life, the efficacy and the eligibility for discharge of a local anesthetic, CLOROTEKAL®, used for spinal anesthesia in short outpatient surgery.
Cardiac autonomic neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes and is associated with resting tachycardia. Regional anesthesia could interrupt normal autonomic activity by central sympathetic blockade. The investigators evaluate the relation of severity of diabetes and heart rate variability, also the impact of spinal anesthesia on the change of heart rate variability.
Dexmedetomidine(DEX) is a novel , highly selective α2 adrenergic receptor agonists , and its selectivity for α2 receptor is 1600 times higher than α1.It also could provide dose-dependent sedation , analgesia , anti-anxiety and inhibition of sympathetic nerves and other effects .At earlier time It was approved by the FDA only for short-time sedation during mechanical ventilation of adult patients (<24h) in ICU. Because of its minimal impact on the respiratory , currently it was more and more widely used to sedate patients undergoing regional anesthesia.Many anesthetic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are often affected by age and gender,such as the drug sensitivity of propofol and remifentanil is increased with age,while the current study also demonstrated that gender may influence the sedate efficacy of propofol and the sensitivity of muscle loose of rocuronium. Current studies with regard to the effects of age and gender on dexmedetomidine pharmacodynamic are rare. The study is aim to explore the right DEX dose of different Age of patients to produce suitable sedation.Dexmedetomidine be used in patients with combined spinal and epidural anesthesia for sedation,which is monitored by the BIS,during the operation.The relation between BIS values and the depth of sedation for patients is also investigated.
The study aim to study whether spinal anesthesia (using: bupivacain, morfin och klonidin) can be better than epidural anesthesia during and after open surgery for renal cell carcinoma. Per- and postoperative pain after spinal anesthesia with klonidin can be reduced and, thus, shorten the hospital stay and rehabilitation of the patients.
The participants were hospitalized in Orthopedic and Traumatology Departments in Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland. The inclusion criteria were (1) age to 40 year-old, (2) no history of urologic problems, and (3) surgery under spinal anesthesia. All the patients where (1) opioids were administered during the surgery, (2) general anesthesia was necessary, and (3) the urinary bladder catheterization was perform during the surgery were excluded from the study. The participants were randomly divided into the study and control groups. No oral premedication was administered. All the patients were asked to empty their urinary bladders before arrival to the operating theatre. When the standard monitoring (continuous electrocardiogram, noninvasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry) was started, intravenous premedication with midazolam was administered and lumbar spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric 0.5% solution of bupivacaine hydrochloride was performed. In the study group, but not in the the control one, the 40 mg of drotaverine hydrochloride was administered intramuscularly. The decresed intravascular volume was corrected with cristalloids. During the surgery the adequate, not deeper than II grade according to Ramsay scale, level of sedationt was obtained with midazolam and/or propofol. All the participants received a questionaire in which we asked the questions about (1) the duration of anesthesia, (2) the time of micturition, (3) the time when discomfort or pain appeared in the lower abdomen, (4) the incidence of the urinary bladder catheterization and time to catheterization. On the next day after the surgery the questionaires were collected. In cases, when the patient's dischaged from the hospital was planned during the weekend, he or she was asked to pass on the questionaire to the nurses.
The purpose of the study is to learn more about how the heart works during cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia (medicines given in the spine that numb parts of your body to block pain) in women. The investigators would like to find out if the information about the heart can help in treating blood pressure changes that occur during the cesarean delivery. The investigators would also like to find out if this information can help reduce the chances of nausea and vomiting during the cesarean delivery. The activity of the heart changes during spinal anesthesia and cesarean section. In the past, a sensor placed directly into the heart was the only way to see how the heart worked. Currently, there are monitors that can sense the heart's activity via sensors that are placed on the skin during cesarean delivery. In this study, the investigators will use the ICON cardiac output (ICON) monitor. The ICON monitor is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to monitor (check) the activity of your heart. This study aims to: 1. Determine if additional cardiac output measurements help anesthesiologists maintain appropriate hemodynamics as defined as within 20% of baseline BP and if it changed their choice of vasopressors (primary outcome). 2. Determine if additional cardiac output measurements help to decrease the incidence of nausea and vomiting during cesarean delivery (secondary outcome).
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the dural sac volume as determined by a geometrical calculation following multilevel measurements of its transverse area and length by ultrasound imaging, correlates with the intrathecal spread of a single dose of hyperbaric bupivacaine in a non-obstetrical population.
In these prospective observational study, the investigators are trying to evaluate (1) the influence of body-mass index on spinal anesthetic outcome and (2) the determinants on spinal anesthetic outcome by logistic regression analysis.