Brain tissue oxygentation monitoring after severe traumatic brain injury may improve mortality and neurological morbidity compared with ICP monitoring alone.
Prophylactic intraoperative IV pentazocine reduces the incidence and severity of post-operative pruritis due to intrathecal morphine used for elective Caesarean section.
Transversus abdominus plane block after caesarean section does not reduce morphine consumption when compared to wound infiltration with equivalent local anaesthesia.
Intraoperative dexamethasone for antiemesis does not appear to significantly alter glucostasis during the first 24 post-operative hours in non-diabetic patients.
Phaxan™, an alphaxalone-cyclodextrin preparation offers fast-onset & short-duration anesthesia equivalent to propofol without pain on injection and with less hypotension.