Objective To describe clinical characteristics, interventions required, and outcome of critically
ill obstetric patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU). Methods All obstetric …

Objective A retrospective analysis of acute pain service (APS) was performed to look at the
epidural and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with respect to their indications, duration and …

Background: Establishing an epidural in an agitated laboring woman can be challenging.
The ideal pain control technique in such a situation should be effective, fast acting, and short …

Methods This study was conducted at the Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia from February 2004 to November 2006. Women of American Society of …

Headache is a potential complication of epidural injection. We report a patient who developed
headache 5 days after a lumbar epidural steroid injection, which was not related to the …

1. Raymond J, Hardy J, Czepko R, Roy D. Arterial injuries in transsphenoidal surgery for
pituitary adenoma; the role of angiography and endovascular treatment. AJNR Am J …

The Arrow FlexTip epidural catheter has reinforced coiled stainless steel wire, which facilitates
its insertion and is less likely to puncture the blood vessels. However, as compared with …

To the Editor: I congratulate Brennnan et al. 1 for surveying the worldwide efforts to improve
pain management. Promoting pain management as a basic human right is highly …

This is the first case report on anesthesia for fetoscopy performed in Saudi Arabia. Epidural
anesthesia was given to the mother in her late second trimester for the fetoscopic intervention…

We present a case of a terminally ill cancer patient with metastasis who was suffering from
inadequate pain control despite high doses of systemic opioid administration. In addition, her …