More likely is the occurrence of intraoperative hypothermia due to a combination of four types of heat loss: conductive, convective, evaporative and radiant. [tsaco.bmj.com]

Chills and shivering (hypothermia) – This occurs in up to half of patients as they regain consciousness after surgery, and it might be related to body temperature. [asahq.org]

Severe hypothermia may result in coagulopathy, delayed awakening, or arrhythmia. [emedicine.medscape.com]

He also saw it as a drug capable of curing most of the ailments of modern life: fatigue, indigestion, low spirits. It was the cure for what ails you. [wired.com]

Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are known to have reactivated herpes group viruses which can produce mild and usually subclinical hepatitis. Hepatotoxic anesthetic gases may then provoke fulminate hepatitis. [anapsid.org]

Herewith, we want to report the anesthetic challenges of a patient with giant bulla communicating into one of the subsegmental right upper lobe bronchus for splenectomy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Rate/drug effects Humans Hypotension/chemically induced Hypotension/drug therapy Injections, Epidural/adverse effects Lidocaine/administration & dosage Lidocaine/adverse effects* Lumbosacral Plexus/drug effects* Middle Aged Monitoring, Intraoperative Nausea [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

halothane can cause hepatotoxicity), the most common side effect is nausea. Overview Inhalational anesthetics provide both analgesia and narcosis and can be used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. [amboss.com]

Warriner’s research is focused on the use of blood substitutes in surgical patients, the value of preoperative beta blockers, the reversal of muscle relaxants and the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. [youtube.com]

Regional anesthesia is the preferred anesthetic technique for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery because it is associated with less postoperative pain and nausea, a lower incidence of blood clots, less blood loss, and a lower infection rate compared [hss.edu]

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common and distressing symptom following LC. The use of multimodal analgesia regimens and the reduction of opioid doses are likely to reduce the incidence of PONV. [intechopen.com]

Pain control and advice An anesthesiologist who specializes in pain medicine may assist patients who have pain due to a range of causes, including headaches, burns, diabetes and herpes, or where they are experiencing chest pain, abdominal, pain pelvic [medicalnewstoday.com]

Celiac Plexus Block : A celiac plexus block is generally performed to relieve pain in patients with cancer of the pancreas or other chronic abdominal pains. [asra.com]

Postoperative delirium – Confusion when regaining consciousness after surgery is common, but for some people — particularly older patients — the confusion can come and go for about a week. [asahq.org]

It can induce a condition known as postoperative delirium, a state of serious confusion and memory loss. [io9.gizmodo.com]

Other common side effects from the medicine are: Nausea and vomiting Dry mouth Sore throat Hoarse voice Sleepiness Shivering Muscle aches Itching Confusion -- especially in older people Rarely, people can be very confused for a few days after their surgery [webmd.com]

While under general anesthesia, a patient is unable to feel pain and will likely wake with some short-term amnesia (memory loss). Experts are unsure exactly how general anesthetics work. [drugs.com]

Purpose General anesthesia is intended to bring about five distinct states during surgery: analgesia, or pain relief amnesia, or loss of memory of the procedure loss of consciousness motionlessness weakening of autonomic responses General Anesthesia Precautions [henryschein.com]

The authors sought to determine whether unconsciousness and amnesia occur when humans develop rigidity and apnea after intravenous fentanyl (without other concomitant anesthetics). [doi.org]

Under general anesthesia, the patient is unable to feel pain and may also have amnesia. [medicalnewstoday.com]

Since then, doctors have gotten much better at putting us out with drug combinations that ease pain, relax muscles and, in some cases, put us in a deep state of hypnosis that gives us temporary amnesia. [livescience.com]

Opium was praised by the Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna in the eleventh century as the most powerful of stupor-producing substances. [encyclopedia.com]

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis or Strümpell-Lorrain disease, is a rare group of inherited disorders characterized by progressive spastic weakness in the lower limbs due to axonal degeneration of the corticospinal [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Large posterior mediastinal masses may lead threatening complications such as critical tracheobronchial compression. Airway management in these individuals is a challenge and being a lower airway obstruction; rescue strategies are limited. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Injection of local anesthetic into the empty orbit induced an extended sinus arrest. This exaggerated response was avoided in a subsequent surgery by pretreatment with high-dose anticholinergics. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]