Clinical Medicine
Mohammad Sadegh Sanie Jahromi; Reza Sahraeai; Shahram Shafa; Mojtaba Ghaedi; Mahbobeh Ranjbar; Hasan Zabetian
Abstract
Introduction: Pain and anxiety after surgery is an unpleasant experience that occurs following various stimuli and humans react to it. This process causes physiological disorders in all body systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare the effect of oral melatonin and gabapentin ...
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Introduction: Pain and anxiety after surgery is an unpleasant experience that occurs following various stimuli and humans react to it. This process causes physiological disorders in all body systems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare the effect of oral melatonin and gabapentin on pain and anxiety in patients undergoing upper extremity orthopedic surgery under general anesthesia.Methods: In this double-blind randomized clinical trial study, 90 patients with anesthesia class 1 and 2 underwent upper limb orthopedic surgery with general anesthesia. Patients were divided into 3 groups, gabapentin, melatonin, and placebo. VAS scale was used to measure patients' pain. Patients' hemodynamic symptoms were further investigated. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistical tests at a significance level of P<0.05.Results: 90 patients underwent upper limb orthopedic surgery under general anesthesia. There was no significant difference between the three groups of gabapentin, melatonin, and placebo in the incidence of pain at different times (P<0.05). Trends in mean diastolic blood pressure was not significant (P=0.612). Trends in the average heart rate from the time before entering the operating room to recovery and its exit was not significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that both gabapentin and melatonin drugs have no effect on postoperative pain in patients undergoing upper limb orthopedic surgery, and it may be better to use other drugs or in combination with other sedative drugs.
Psycology
Zahra Saeid; Farideh Mohammadkhani Orouji
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According to researchers, there is a part of the brain that is both for negative emotions and for positive emotions. Research has shown that people who are often happy are more active in the front of their frontal lobes, while people who are anxious are more active on the right side. The good news is ...
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According to researchers, there is a part of the brain that is both for negative emotions and for positive emotions. Research has shown that people who are often happy are more active in the front of their frontal lobes, while people who are anxious are more active on the right side. The good news is that "you can" adjust your emotions through meditation and change the point of emotion in the brain. You will be happier if you meditate for about an hour a day, that is, 6 days a week and one hour a day for 8 weeks. In addition to happiness, you will gain more understanding and empathy with others, and your immune system will be strengthened. Meditation helps you to sleep deeper and with better quality by calming your mind and modulating hormones. When your sleep is deep and quality, growth hormones and melatonin are released in the body, both of which are anti-aging hormones. In addition, deep, quality sleep releases toxic proteins from the brain that, if left in the brain (due to poor sleep quality), reduce the ability to process information, solve problems, and be creative, and increase emotional responses. Also, meditation has an effective role in increasing the power of the mind. This process also increases the speed of learning by increasing your level of concentration and increases the power of memory, level of consciousness and the amount of emotion control and prevents the decrease of the mentioned cases with age.
