Remifentanil and propofol sedation for retrobulbar nerve block.

abstract：:Althesin was used as a induction agent then diluted and administered as a controlled infusion for 60 patients undergoing 66 procedures. Increment doses of fentanyl were given to provide additional analgesia. There was delayed awakening in 7 patients (12.1%), 3 of whom responded rapidly to narcotic reversal with naloxo...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Saady A

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylaxis of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding by control of gastric pH has been widely advocated for intensive care patients. H2-blockers and antacids have been used and demonstrated to be incompletely effective at maintaining gastric pH above 4. A study of 100 patients measured the efficacy of two-hourly gastr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Morris RW,Boyle M,Jacobs S,Torda T

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a six-month period, all airway options used for non-emergent patients undergoing thoracic surgery requiring one-lung ventilation at a single institution were assessed after introduction of the VivaSight™ double-lumen endotracheal tube (VivaSight-DL), a novel double-lumen tube with an integrated camera. This device...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rapchuk IL,Kunju S,Smith IJ,Faulke DJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous lipid emulsion is, in some countries, the recommended treatment for local anaesthetic toxicity. Systemic local anaesthetic toxicity results in hypoxaemia and acidosis, and whether this influences the effects of lipid therapy on drug concentrations and cardiovascular recovery is currently unknown. Twenty an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Heinonen JA,Skrifvars MB,Haasio J,Backman JT,Rosenberg PH,Litonius E

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy is a rare form of muscular dystrophy associated with cardiac implications such as cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias leading to sudden death. We describe the anesthetic management of a patient with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy who presented for orthopaedic surgery and discuss the dis...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Shende D,Agarwal R

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare three anaesthetic agents in patients with ejection fraction below 0.40 subjected to coronary revascularization surgery. Twenty five elective coronary surgical patients with ejection fraction below 0.40 were prospectively studied. Premedication was pethidine 1 mg/kg and induction was...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Urzua J,Serra M,Lema G,Canessa R,Gonzalez R,Meneses G,Irarrazaval M,Moran S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally invasive oesophagectomy is a relatively new procedure that is performed by means of thoracoscopy and laparoscopy. One stage of the procedure involves creation of a peritoneo-pleural communication in the presence of a pneumoperitoneum. In the case presented, severe hypotension occurred at this point. We belie...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McConkey PP,Moore PG,Nguyen NT

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged intermittent renal replacement therapy (PIRRT) is a recently defined acute modality for critically ill patients, and in theory combines the superior detoxification and haemodynamic stability of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) with the operational convenience and low cost of intermittent haemodial...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Khanal N,Marshall MR,Ma TM,Pridmore PJ,Williams AB,Rankin AP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidural opioids provide high quality analgesia with no clinically apparent effect on the circulation or on specific organ blood flow. Little investigative data is available to support these impressions of circulatory stability. Ten patients presenting for thoracotomy were studied at rest preoperatively to determine i...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Beavis RE,Crotty B,Osborne A,Hochmann M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and efficacy of prolonged infusion of alphaxalone/alphadolone (Alfathesin: Glaxo) was assessed in 20 critically ill patients needing sedation during intermittent positive pressure ventilation in a general intensive care unit. The mean dose of Alfathesin infused was 1542 ml (range: 225 to 4820 ml) over 6.9 d...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stewart GO,Dobb GJ,Craib IA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old woman with Cushing's syndrome suffered a severe anaphylactic reaction on induction of anaesthesia, resulting in circulatory arrest. A spontaneous cardiac output appeared after 25 minutes of chest compression and she regained consciousness three hours later, with no neurological deficit. A Bispectral Inde...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kluger MT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study comparing the efficacy of wire-conducted intravascular ECG (IVECG) signal and signal from the port with a sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) flushed catheter to correctly place a catheter tip was carried out in 100 patients. The correct position of the catheter tip was confirmed as follows: with technique...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Cheng KI,Chu KS,Chen LT,Tang CS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of ventricular fibrillation after aortic de-clamping during cardiac surgery is common, and if prolonged may contribute to myocardial ischaemia. The use of lignocaine cardioplegia to minimize reperfusion ventricular fibrillation was studied in 141 patients undergoing first time coronary artery surgery in...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Wallace SR,Baker AB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes the perioperative management of a child presenting with acute intestinal obstruction secondary to bowel malrotation after a recent intracranial haemorrhage associated with an intracranial arteriovenous malformation. We discuss the anaesthesia planning for this case, where the 'optimal' manag...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Scarth EJ,White MC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man with metastatic femoral osteosarcoma had inadequate pain control with gabapentin, naproxen and intravenous fentanyl. A tunnelled femoral nerve catheter was used to administer a continuous infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine and 4 microg/ml clonidine (10 ml/hour) until his death 88 days later During dischar...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Pacenta HL,Kaddoum RN,Pereiras LA,Chidiac EJ,Burgoyne LL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has been shown to improve quality of life and survival rates in patients suffering from pseudomyxoma peritonei. The procedure is long and associated with significant intraoperative blood loss. As such, the anaesthetic management of pati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Shiralkar SP,Kerr P,Scott J,Sivalingam P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many deceased by neurologic criteria donors are administered inhalational agents during organ recovery surgery-a process that is characterised by warm and cold ischaemia followed by warm reperfusion. In certain settings, volatile anaesthetics (VA) are known to precondition organs to protect them from subsequent ischae...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Perez-Protto S,Nazemian R,Matta M,Patel P,Wagner KJ,Latifi SQ,Lebovitz DJ,Reynolds JD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of true local anaesthetic allergy in patients with an alleged history of local anaesthetic allergy and whether subsequent exposure to local anaesthetics is safe. Two hundred and eight patients with a history of allergy to local anaesthesia were referred over a twent...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fisher MM,Bowey CJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that direct nursing hours correlate with the cost of a patient stay in intensive care was tested. One hundred and thirty-nine patients were studied and the data collected included: (a) direct nursing hours applied to each patient; (b) a daily TISS score: (c) a detailed costing of each patient (all costs...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Havill JH,Caspari M,McConnell H,Alexander M,Montgomery C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Perioperative Service has recently been introduced at liverpool hospital, a 460-bed university teaching hospital. This provides a co-ordinated system for managing all elective surgical patients from the time an admission booked until hospital discharge. This paper describes the patient assessment, structure and staf...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kerridge R,Lee A,Latchford E,Beehan SJ,Hillman KM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of acute lithium intoxication in a 51-year-old woman on chronic lithium therapy. Her serum lithium level was 10.6 mmol/l 13 hours after ingestion and 5.8 mmol/l at 24 hours. Dialysis therapy was not employed and she recovered well after fluid resuscitation. Serum lithium levels in chronic intoxicatio...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nagappan R,Parkin WG,Holdsworth SR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective, randomized, double-blind study was designed to compare the recovery characteristics of remifentanil and fentanyl in combination with propofol for direct current cardioversion. Patients undergoing elective cardioversion received either intravenous fentanyl 1 microg/kg (n=33) or remifentanil 0.25 micro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Maltepe F,Kocaayan E,Ugurlu BS,Akdeniz B,Guneri S

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy patients underwent anaesthesia for 280 renal transplants between October 1977 and October 1982. Their medical records were studied retrospectively. These patients were representative of the end-stage chronic renal failure population, with the usual high incidence of cardiovascular and biochemic...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Marsland AR,Bradley JP

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of predeposited autologous blood transfusion (PABT) with and without intra/postoperative blood salvage to reduce or eliminate the need for homologous blood transfusion (HBT) in primary total hip or knee replacement surgery was investigated by retrospective and prospective studies. Depending on the type of...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Mah ET,Davis R,Seshadri P,Nyman TL,Seshadri R

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analgesia below the knee can be achieved by blocking the tibial nerve and the common peroneal nerve in the popliteal fossa, and the saphenous nerve adjacent to the knee. The anatomy and technique of nerve block in the popliteal fossa is described, the nerve being located prior to blockade using a peripheral nerve stim...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kempthorne PM,Brown TC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inotrope-dependent patients may become haemodynamically unstable during treatment in the hyperbaric chamber. One possible cause is altered performance of infusion devices. We tested six Atom 235 syringe infusion pumps under hyperbaric conditions of 2.8 atmospheres absolute in a multiplace chamber using a gravimetric m...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Story DA,Houston JJ,Millar IL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children undergoing anaesthesia are prone to hypothermia. Perioperative monitoring of patient temperature is, therefore, standard practice. Postoperative temperature is regarded as a key anaesthetic performance indicator in Australian hospitals. Many different methods and sites of temperature measurement are used peri...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Drake-Brockman TF,Hegarty M,Chambers NA,von Ungern-Sternberg BS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are presented which illustrate the disastrous consequences possible when an anaesthetic breathing circuit is obstructed by a foreign body. Despite reports of previous similar cases, work practices and equipment manufacture or design continue to allow for such events to occur. The importance of both pre-anaes...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Foreman MJ,Moyes DG

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancuronium and a continuous infusion of althesin was used to produce muscular relaxation in a patient with myotonic dystrophy. Excellent muscle relaxation with absence of percussion or surgically induced myotonia was obtained but the EMG was not modified; an intracellular site of action of althesin is postulated. Car...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Muller J,Suppan P

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the outcome of Jehovah's Witness (JW) patients admitted to a major Australasian ICU and to review the literature regarding the management of critically ill Jehovah's Witness patients. All Jehovah's Witness patients admitted to the ICU between January 1999 and September 2003 we...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： MacLaren G,Anderson M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00