The incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting is about 30% lower following xenon anesthesia compared with traditional volatile anesthesia.
Elective surgery can itself precipitate post-traumatic stress disorder even in the absence of intra-operative awareness.
Excellent review article on interactions between Regional anaesthesia and the newer oral anticoagulants
Perioperative lignocaine infusion reduces postoperative pain and nausea, and may improve GIT function and speed hospital discharge.
"Xenopus is a genus of highly aquatic frogs native to sub-Saharan Africa. Twenty species are in the Xenopus genus" – interesting animal to use really.
BIS monitoring significantly reduces the risk of awareness under general anesthesia in high-risk adult surgical patients.
Caveat - the Cochrane review noted low level evidence for changes in length of hospital stay or reduced complications, 2' to poor blinding in some studies. Safe as fasting though.
Reversal with sugammadex may reduce post-operative pulmonary complications in the elderly and ASA 3/4 patients.
Reversal with sugammadex reduces the incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting compared with neostigmine.
Nebulized ketamine with dexmedetomidine is suitable and effective for pediatric premedication before outpatient dental surgery.
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