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TRIVIAL TRUTH
Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter
patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional
amount of space in their bodies.
QUOTE CORNER
Learning without thought is labour lost, thought without learning is perilous.- Confucius
ELEVENTH HOUR ANAESTHESIA
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Longest acting muscle relaxant Shortest acting muscle relaxant
Doxacurium > Pipecuronium > Pancuronium Succinylcholine < Mivacurium
> d-Tubocurare.
TRIVIAL TRUTH
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
ELEVENTH HOUR ANAESTHESIA
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CONTRAINDICATIONS TO SPINAL ANESTHESIA
Hypotension and hypovolemia
Uncooperative and mentally ill person
Infants and children
Vertebral abnormalities
Local sepsis
*Madelson’s syndrome-
Bilateral diffuse alveolar opacities caused due to aspiration of acid gastric contents after
anesthesia, alcohol abuse, drug overdose, epilepsy.
*Bier’s block- regional anaesthesia that utilizes intravenous injection of the local
anaesthetic agent to bring it to the nerve trunks and endings.
QUOTE CORNER
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.-
Henry Ford