Peripartum management of a patient with dopamine beta-hydroxylase deficiency, a rare congenital cause of dysautonomia.

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：:Awareness is the spontaneous recall of an event(s) that occurred during general anaesthesia and surgery. The incidence of awareness is approximately 0.2% of cases where neuromuscular blockers are used and half that where they are omitted. The majority of data relating to awareness is from anaesthetic practice. We repo...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gibson J,Flabouris A

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the utilisation of the operating room, a fixed resource, in terms of conditions that prevent day-of-surgery cancellation due to deficient operative capacity. In this study, we surveyed the causes and overall rates of elective surgery cancellation and then compared the nu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Yoon SZ,Lee SI,Lee HW,Lim HJ,Yoon SM,Chang SH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical effects of high-volume spinal anaesthesia with bupivacaine 0.125% were studied in 30 patients presenting for postpartum sterilisation. Group A, B and C patients received 6, 8 and 10 ml of bupivacaine 0.125% respectively. Onset, duration and regression of sensory block and motor blockade, haemodynamic para...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tay DH,Tay SM,Thomas E

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper was commissioned to cover the beginning of anaesthesia: the transition from surgical operations with pain to those without. It reviews some previous pre-anaesthetic histories (Part I): it focuses upon attitudes to pain; and it seeks evidence from the one hundred years before the discovery of anaesthesia. Fi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Smith WD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute airway obstruction is a very rare presentation of achalasia. We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with previously undiagnosed achalasia who presented with acute respiratory distress and stridor due to tracheal compression by mega-oesophagus. Anaesthetists and physicians caring for patients with achalasia mu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ho V,Whiting P

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes four neonates having abdominal procedures with intraoperative and early postoperative analgesia provided by a transversus abdominis plane regional block. Analgesia for neonatal upper and mid-abdominal surgery usually involves regional anaesthesia and/or systemic opioid. All these analgesia techniq...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fredrickson MJ,Seal P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty women were given a bolus induction of propofol 2.0 mg.kg-1 for elective caesarean section. Induction to delivery times ranged from five to fourteen minutes. At delivery the maternal venous (MV) concentrations of propofol ranged from 0.53 to 1.48 micrograms.ml-1 umbilical vein (UV) 0.39 to 1.4 micrograms.ml-1 an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gin T,Gregory MA,Chan K,Oh TE

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Glidescope Video Laryngoscope (Glidescope, Verathon Medical, Bothell, WA, U.S.A.) is a relatively new intubating device. It has been proposed to be useful for securing both routine airways and those where direct laryngoscopy may be difficult. In this prospective observational study, data for 742 intubations using ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Siu LW,Mathieson E,Naik VN,Chandra D,Joo HS

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:A six-year-old boy with oesophageal strictures secondary to neonatal repair of oesophageal atresia and requiring six to eight weekly oesophageal dilatations by bouginage developed anticipatory nausea and vomiting. This was effectively managed by a course of preoperative hypnotherapy over four sessions. Resolution of a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Mackenzie A,Frawley GP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracheobronchial injury is an uncommon complication in blunt chest trauma. The typical clinical features include haemoptysis, dyspneoa, and air leak. Tracheobronchial injury occurs after high energy impact and is commonly associated with injuries of other vital organs. If tracheobronchial injury is undetected and left...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Chu CP,Chen PP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the medical records from two public hospitals in Sydney was undertaken to determine the incidence of this uncommon complication. Twenty-seven cases of uterine rupture were reported out of 31,115 deliveries with an incidence of 0.086% (versus 0.05% in the current literature). The incidence associated with p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lynch JC,Pardy JP

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Amethocaine has recently been introduced as a topical local anaesthetic preparation. Following sporadic reports of severe local adverse effects, we conducted an audit of 372 children attending our hospital for day surgery. We conclude that 4% amethocaine cream is a safe and effective topical anaesthetic and that the i...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Wongprasartsuk P,Main BJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Needle-nerve stimulation has a false negative motor response rate, which may increase needle passes. This prospective, randomised study tested the hypothesis that femoral nerve catheters placed with ultrasound-only guidance could provide comparable postoperative analgesia to those placed using a conventional nerve sti...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fredrickson MJ,Danesh-Clough TK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews recent applications of mechanical ventilation such as controlled hypoventilation in acute asthma, domiciliary nocturnal ventilation in chronic respiratory failure due to neuromuscular disease and improvement of left ventricular performance by raised intrathoracic pressure. Established uses of mechan...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Henning R

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute thyroid swelling is reported following intubation of a young woman with a pre-existing small goitre. The thyroid enlargement then distorted the airway, necessitating an emergency thyroidectomy. The application of cricoid pressure was believed to have caused the intrathyroidal bleeding and the complicat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fairweather NL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral quadratus lumborum blockade (QLB) using ultrasound guidance has been introduced as an abdominal truncal block to improve postoperative analgesia and quality of recovery (QoR) after abdominal surgery, but efficacy remains controversial. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of posterior Q...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fujimoto H,Irie T,Mihara T,Mizuno Y,Nomura T,Goto T

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the experiences of patients with severe comorbidity discharged from Intensive Care Units (ICUs). This project aimed to determine the effects of an ICU stay for patients with severe comorbidity by comparing 1) quality of life (QOL), 2) the symptom profile of hospital survivors and 3) health servic...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Williams TA,McConigley R,Leslie GD,Dobbs GJ,Phillips M,Davies H,Aoun S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) provided by the Siemens Servo 900C ventilator were compared with a continuous flow system (CF-CPAP) in patients weaning from the ventilator. Thirteen patients were studied using both systems at a CPAP level of 0.5 kPa. Additional work of breathing (Wapp) and de...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Aerts JG,van den Berg B,Bogaard JM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Talc is the most frequently used chemical agent to induce pleurodesis and complications after this procedure, usually benign and self-limiting, are resolved easily. Pneumonitis with acute respiratory distress after talc pleurodesis is a rare complication, it requires intensive treatment and may be fatal. We describe a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Griffo S,Musumeci A,De Luca G,Saccenti A,Grande LM,Stassano P

更新日期：2009-01-01 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 cervical spine is frequently involved in rheumatoid arthritis and yet there exists no consensus on the need to screen for cervical spine subluxations preoperatively. We reviewed retrospectively 77 patients who underwent 132 operations under general or regional anaesthesia over a 44-month period. We found that whil...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kwek TK,Lew TW,Thoo FL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique of subclavian vein catheterization is described, tailored to the individual patient, to reduce the risk of right atrial placement with central venous catheter (CVC) insertion. Using data gathered retrospectively for Quality Improvement purposes, CVC tip location was assessed. The standard technique used in...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Chalkiadis GA,Goucke CR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-lung ventilation can be achieved with a double-lumen tube or a bronchial blocker. However, the larger outer diameters of double-lumen or Univent tubes may prevent their passage through an area of subglottic stenosiss. We present five cases of subglottic stenosis in which a Fogarty catheter was used as a bronchial ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Park HP,Bahk JH,Park JH,Oh YS

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several reports of propofol becoming extrinsically contaminated with bacteria. These reports have usually related to infusions or delays in administration after the ampoule has been opened. This observational study was performed to examine bacterial contamination of propofol during usual practice in th...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Soong WA

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of halothane (0.5-2%) and enflurane (1-4%) on two Transoxode transcutaneous oxygen (TcPO2) electrodes (Hellige Servomed Oxymonitor SM.361 system) were serially tested in atmospheres of nitrogen, air and 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen. Both TcPO2 electrodes reduced and "read" halothane but no enflurane. Calibr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Downing JW,Mankowitz M,Brock-Utne JG,Holloway AM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00