April 2012 Issue

EDITORIAL VIEWS

Prevention of mechanical ventilation related iatrogenic injuries in neonates: Can we really succeed?

Producing a research culture in anesthesiology and intensive care in the SAARC region

Goonasekera, Samina Ismail

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Midazolam as an adjuvant in supraclavicular brachial plexus block

Comparison of sedative efficacy of epidural bupivacaine 0.5% with lignocaine 2% plus adrenaline by measuring BIS guided propofol requirement in gynaecological surgery

Pradhan, Surendra Kumar Gupta, Gaurav

Jain, Sandeep Khuba, Dinesh Kumar Singh

Comparison of the effects of general vs spinal anesthesia on neonatal outcome

A prospective, randomized comparison of low dose bupivacaine spinal anaesthesia versus local anaesthesia with propofol infusion for knee arthroscopy

Safia Maqsood Siddiqui,

Muhammad Saleh Khaskheli,

Maqsood Ahmed Siddiqui

Mandeep S. Dhillon

A prospective study of antibiotic susceptibility in patients with ventilator associated pneumonia

Comparative study of analgesic efficacy of ropivacaine with ropivacaine plus dexmedetomidine for paravertebral block in unilateral renal surgery

Payam Tabarsi, Majid Malek Mohammad,

Majid Marjan, Masoud Shamaei,

Seyed Alireza Nadji, Mandana Chitsazan,

Golnar Radmand, Seyed Amir Mohajerani,

Hamid Reza Jamaati

Sajib Chatterjee, Mukesh K Vijay,

Abhijit Hazra, Manjushree Ray

CASE REPORTS

Anesthesia in a pediatric patient with systemic mastocytosis

Priapism following spinal anesthesia in urological procedures

Joseph D. Tobias

Parnandi Bhaskar Rao, T. R. Ramachandran

Perioperative management of an adolescent with transposition of the great arteries, status post Senning procedure, for posterior spinal fusion

Anaesthetic implications of Ebstein’s anomaly

Gayatri Vivek Tadwalkar

Achondroplasia and lumber spinal stenosis: A Case report and review of literature

Post dural puncture headache in children: A report of two cases

Monika Gupta, Shailendra Kumar Pareek

A perioperative anaphylactic reaction caused by latex in a patient with no history of allergy

Spinal anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair in an infant with congenital tracheomalacia

Kenan Kaygusuz, Sinan Gursoy,

Idris Ersan, Caner Mimaroglu

Ersoy Ozlem Dost Burhan, Ates Hakan, Ozturk Omur

Perioperative management for endoscopic third ventriculostomy – a case report

SHORT COMMUNICATION

An improvised tracheostomy tube for weaning in less privileged countries

Manpreet Singh

REVIEW ARTICLES

The anesthesiologists have a role in preventing perioperative renal failure

Polycythemia vera: Essential management protocols

Hektor Sula, Artur Hafizi, Aurel Janko,

Bilbil Hoxha, Haxhire Gani, Herion Dredha, Rezart Xhani

Muhammad Iqbal, Safdar Hussain

ABSTRACTS

BOOK REVIEW

First National Research Symposium on Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care, AKUH Karachi, 3-4 March 2012

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