A simple randomized study involving 36 paediatric patients was carried out in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital over an eighteen-month period. The study aimed at ascertaining mother’s attitude to caudal block for postoperative analgesia. The study group included 19 patients, 18 of whom had caudal analgesia following inhalational induction of anaesthesia. There was one failed caudal block so that one patient was excluded from the study group of 19. The remaining 18 patients had a sole inhalational anaesthesia with pentazocine for intraoperative analgesia.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was carried out in a 32-year old with ectopic pregnancy and unwitnessed cardiac arrest. She was incidentally found to be HIV positive. Universal precautionary measures were observed during the resuscitation of the patients.
A survey of awareness about the scope and attitudes towards anaesthesia among anaesthetists was carried out in three tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This was done by self-administered questionnaires distributed to the anaesthetists. The results of the study showed a mean age of 36 years and a male preponderance among the anesthetists. 57.2% of the anaesthetists were unaware or had limited knowledge of the scope of anaesthesia prior to training. Only 8.6% of the anaesthetists joined the specialty out of the interest to develop anaesthesia and save lives.
