dc.contributor.author | Suresh, K N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-25T10:10:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-25T10:10:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1985 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Degree Of Master Of Medicine In Anaesthesia, University Of Nairobi, 1985 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/71067 | |
dc.description.abstract | Minor complications of anaesthesia were studied in three
hundred in-patients by interviewing them post-operatively. This was
done to determine their incidence and relationship to age, sex and
duration of anaesthesia.
Nausea and vomiting, contrary to Common belief, was found
to be more Common in males than in females. Nausea was more frequent
in eldery patients than young patients and vomiting was found to be
more Common in young than older patients. It was observed that the
duration of anaesthesia had Some correlation with these complications,
though with modern anaesthetic agents like thiopentone,halothane, etc.
the incidence of nausea an d vomiting tends to be low.
Sore-throat, a common complication did not have much of
sex difference but definitely the frequency increased with age and
duration of anaesthesia. lr 's incidence was also higher in patients
who had pharyngeal packs than those who had cuffed tubes, it was
lowest in those who were on mask alone.
Muscle pains were commoner in female than in male patients.
It was commonest in those patients who were between fourteen and forty
years old.
The incidence of awareness was quite high in patients
undergoing emergency caesarean section; these patients were poorly
prepared and none of them had been given sedatives or narcotic drugs
for pre-rnedication.
Trauma to teet h and gums occurred in a few patients.
Post-operative headaches were more common in females than in males.
Conjunctivitis, which occurred in one patient, could be due to
chemical irritation from anaesthetic vapours | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | Minor Complications Of Anaesthesia | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |