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PubMed2005

[Anesthesia for aesthetic surgery].

Anesthesia for aesthetic surgery has changed along with the development in plastic surgery during the last two decades. This is the first report of a large series of anesthesia conducted for aesthetic surgery in Israel. The article presents the experience of ten thousand procedures performed during the last four years. Although the prevalence of extensive surgery and complicated patients has increased, no anesthetic-related mortality and only minor morbidity have occurred. Methods of anesthesia and prevention of complications are described. Specific approaches for some potentially dangerous procedures are discussed.

Anesthesia↗

PubMed2002

[Horner's syndrome during epidural analgesia in labor: an alarming sign or a benign phenomenon?].

Horner's syndrome has been reported as a complication of epidural analgesia for labor. In all such cases Bupivacaine 0.5%-0.25% was used. Recently, Bupivacaine of much lower concentration has become a routine anesthetic for labor. We present, for the first time, two parturients who developed Horner's syndrome with diluted Bupivacaine. We suggest that with the absence of other neurological signs, once subdural and subarachnoid injections are excluded, further investigations are not required during the first 24 hours since in most of the cases the Horner's syndrome is due to high rostral spread of the epidural block and disappears within 24 hours. Epidural analgesia can be carefully continued albeit appearance of the syndrome.

Adult↗