Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
-
Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2013
Randomized Controlled TrialProphylactic ondansetron does not prevent shivering or decrease shivering severity during cesarean delivery under combined spinal epidural anesthesia: a randomized trial.
Prophylactic ondansetron does not prevent shivering during cesarean section under regional block.
pearl -
Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jan 2013
The utility of ultrasound imaging in predicting ease of performance of spinal anesthesia in an orthopedic patient population.
Ultrasonography of the spine improves technical performance of spinal anesthesia, but what is unclear is whether it can predict difficulty. We tested the hypothesis that a good ultrasound view at a given intervertebral level is associated with absence of technical difficulty. ⋯ Ultrasound can be useful in predicting the absence of technical difficulty in performing dural puncture and thus in selecting the optimal intervertebral level for spinal anesthesia.