Objective To determine the effect of perioperative β blocker treatment in patients having non-cardiac
surgery. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Seven search …

Postoperative cardiac morbidity and mortality continue to pose considerable risks to surgical
patients. Postoperative epidural analgesia is considered to have beneficial effects on …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between anxiety
the night before surgery and that existing immediately preoperatively, whether anaesthetists …

Background In this study, the authors intensively monitored isoenzyme and electric activity
of the heart for the first 7 days after noncardiac surgery in a large group of patients at risk for …

The management of postoperative pain with continuous epidural fentanyl infusion was
compared with continuous intravenous fentanyl infusion. In a randomized, double-blind protocol …

The effectiveness of an intra-articular injection of bupivacaine, administered before the
incision or after closure of the wound, was studied in an effort to decrease the need for …

… than that of our previous study ( 11 ); however, the exposure to nitrous oxide in the present
study was ∼1.67, as opposed to 2.6 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC)-hour (% of N 2 O …

… n=4336) and missing data (n=9). The group receiving thoracic epidural without general
anaesthesia was too small for analysis (n… were given thoracic epidural (excluding n=852). Lack of …

The purpose of this study was to determine the analgesic efficacy, opioid-sparing effect, and
tolerability of ketorolac administered as an intravenous (IV) bolus followed by a continuous …

Although epidural opioids frequently are used to provide postoperative analgesia, several
articles have suggested that the analgesia after epidural fentanyl is similar to that after an …