Advances in emergency airway management have allowed intensivists to use intubation
techniques that were once the province of anesthesiology and were confined to the …

BACKGROUND: Although β blockers have been found to decrease perioperative
myocardial infarction (MI), β-blocker-mediated hypotension is associated with postoperative …

Background: Adrenergic stress response induced by laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation
(LTI) appears to be attenuated by esmolol, but its potential clinical benefits have not been …

Submental tracheal intubation is a simple, quick and effective alternative to oral and nasal
tracheal intubation or tracheostomy in the surgical management of selected patients with …

Methods Thirty normotensive, ASA physical status I–II patients, receiving general
anaesthesia for major abdominal surgery, received an intravenous midazolam …

It is well known that laryngeal instrumentation and endotracheal intubation is associated
with a marked, transient rise in intracranial pressure (ICP). Patients with head injury …

Aims: The objective of this study is to compare the clinical effects of dexmedetomidine with
esmolol and control in attenuating the presser response during laryngoscopy. Settings and …

Background Several drugs have been used in attenuating or obliterating the response
associated with laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. These changes are of little concern in …

Abstract Background Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have yielded conflicting results
regarding the ability of beta‐blockers to influence perioperative cardiovascular morbidity …

Aims: To the best of our knowledge there is no study comparing the efficacy of lignocaine
with two different doses of dexmedetomidine for attenuating the pressor response. With this …