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Anticholinergic premedication [PDF]
Two hundred and forty-four surgical patients who received no anticholinergic premedication were compared with 160 patients who had received atropine or scopolamine before the induction of anaesthesia. Infants and patients undergoing heart surgery were excluded. Eleven anaesthetists participated in the study.
K M, Leighton, H D, Sanders
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Background: Pregnant women are at high risk of experiencing gastric fluid aspiration, which is known as Mendelson's syndrome. The possibility of aspiration increases in an emergency condition.
Ristiawan Muji Laksono +2 more
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Summary A prospective study of routine premedication management was carried out at a large teaching hospital. Many patients received their premedication at times inappropriate for it to be effective. Several patients receiving regular medication had this suddenly stopped pre‐operatively. Prolonged fasting occurred
M T, Kluger, H, Owen
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Lorazepam as a premedication [PDF]
A double-blind random study compared the effects of lorazepam and pantopon an intra-muscular premedication in healthy women for uterine curettage (D & C). Anxiety, as assessed by a self-rating test by the patient and by a trained observer, showed a significant reduction at one and one-half hours after lorazepam and a smaller reduction after pantopon ...
G, Gale, S, Galloon
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A double blind trial on a selected group of 125 adult patients investigated the effect of atropine in premedication. The addition of atropine to premedication of pethidine and promethazine made no statistical difference in the incidence of (a) secretory problems, cough, laryngeal spasm, and vomiting during induction ...
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ObjectivesTo assess premedication practices before tracheal intubation of premature newborns in the delivery room (DR).Study designFrom the national population-based prospective EPIPAGE 2 cohort in 2011, we extracted all live born preterms intubated in ...
Elizabeth Walter-Nicolet +8 more
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Background and Purpose: Premedication with either oral midazolam or intranasal dexmedetomidine prior to surgery remains less than ideal. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the combination of those two drug regimens would have any beneficial
Yu-Hang Cai +6 more
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Administration of midazolam as sedative premedication for paediatric patients
The paper aims to discuss effective presurgical modalities for reducing preanesthetic and preoperative anxiety in children. It reviews the existing research on psychological interventions and sedative premedication for presurgical anxiety management ...
Lina Kalibatienė +4 more
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Background and Aims: Dexmedetomidine is a highly selective α-2 adrenoreceptor agonist and has been found to be an effective premedication agent when administered via the intranasal route.
Shilpi Verma +4 more
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The History of Premedication [PDF]
“- An anaesthetic is a frightening adventure into the unknown over which a patient can exert no control, and few can meet this type of ordeal with equanimity” 1 . British Medical Journal, 1964.
C, Ball, R N, Westhorpe
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