\n\nMethods Sixty male patients – aged 20-40 years – who were scheduled for unilateral inguinal herniorrhaphy under spinal anaesthesia were included in this prospective, randomized, double-blind study. The patients were randomly allocated to two groups: the gabapentin group (n = 30) received single-dose 1.2 g oral gabapentin 1 h before surgery, and the placebo group received a placebo capsule instead. Spinal anaesthesia was performed with heavy bupivacaine, and all operations were performed by the same surgeon with the same technique. Postoperative analgesia was evaluated during sitting and lying with a visual analogue scale. Assessment of postoperative pain at 1, 3 and 6 months was carried

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We conclude that preoperative single-dose gabapentin decreases the intensity of acute postoperative pain, tramadol consumption and the incidence and intensity of pain in the first 6 months after inguinal herniorrhaphy. Eur click here J Anaesthesiol 26:772-776 (C) 2009 European Society of Anaesthesiology.”
“Objective\n\nTo test the hypothesis that a higher pulsoximetric arterial oxygen saturation (SpO(2)) target range is associated with reduced cerebral tissue oxygen desaturations from baseline during events of hypoxaemia or bradycardia.\n\nDesign\n\nRandomised crossover trial.\n\nSetting\n\nSingle tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit.\n\nPatients\n\nSixteen preterm infants with severe intermittent hypoxaemia or bradycardia.\n\nInterventions\n\nSpO(2) target was set to 80-92% and 85-96% for 4h each in random sequence. On a subsequent day, the target sequence was reversed and the study was repeated.\n\nMain outcome measures\n\nWe simultaneously recorded cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (cerebral StO(2)), SpO(2) and heart rate. Cerebral StO(2) was measured by near infrared spectroscopy. The primary outcome was the cumulative cerebral StO(2) desaturation score representing the area below a cerebral StO(2) baseline value before onset of each hypoxaemic or bradycardic event.