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Postoperative residual curarization (PORC)" a residual duration of action of muscle relaxants beyond the end of the operation" in postoperative patients is a succession of the presence of blocked nicotinic receptors. Even in observationally asymptomatic patients, 60-70% of these receptors can be

Pelvic organ prolapse Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a clinical condition that, although it is not life-threatening, significantly affects patients' quality of life. POP affects more than 30% of females in the general population. Among those, the majority is free of symptoms and do not need any

With a complex etiology, delirium is usually caused by various peri-operative stimuli on basis of predisposing factors, including senility, hypoxia and hypotension, pain, drug (such as pethidine, benzodiazepine, anticholinergic, and drug withdrawal), complications prior to surgery, post-operative

More than 1500 laparoscopic abdominal gynaecological surgeries are performed at our Hospital every year and hence there is a need to provide excellent analgesia and minimize side effects from medications to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes. Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) may occur

In a paper recently published, Barr et al, supposed that pulmonary emphysema and bronchial obstruction were inversely related with ventricular telediastolic volume, with the ejection volume and the ejection fraction in patients with severe pulmonary disease. The mechanisms that are involved in the

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is a rare fatal autosomal recessive disease caused by a deficiency of the protein IKAP.1 This results in a selective developmental defect that affects mostly afferent (sensory) neurons including those in the dorsal root ganglia and cranial nerves.2, 3 We have shown

Muscle relaxing facilitates endotracheal intubation and surgical access. Muscle relaxants have a long duration with the possibility of residual muscle relaxation after surgery (over 40% of patients), and ventilatory problems (hypoxia, hypercapnia, atelectasis, airway collapse) that raise

One-hundred-eighty ASA I-II patients aged 18-55 years scheduled for elective ambulatory general surgery with a duration >1 h under general anaesthesia were enrolled in this double-blinded placebo-controlled randomised study after obtaining of the approval of Institutional Ethical Committee of

Background: Asthma is the third largest cause of hospitalization in children under 15 years of age. It is a reversible obstructive lung disease caused by airway inflammation and constriction of the airway smooth muscle. Mucus producing glands of the airway become enlarged resulting in overproduction

Creatine plays a pivotal role in brain energy homeostasis, being a temporal and spatial buffer for cytosolic and mitochondrial pools of the cellular energy currency adenosine triphosphate (Wyss & Kaddurah-Daouk, 2000). Recent studies have suggested increased brain utilization of oxygen following