A longitudinal study of 100 consecutive admissions for carbon monoxide poisoning to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

abstract：:Predicting unexpected intensive care unit (ICU) re-admission and mortality after critical illness is difficult. This study assessed the associations between eosinopenia on the day of ICU discharge and outcomes after critical illness. This retrospective cohort study involved a total of 1446 critically ill patients who ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Yip B,Ho KM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied remifentanil and propofol for analgesia and sedation during the placement of an ophthalmic block. Eighty ASA I or II patients undergoing elective cataract surgery under a retrobulbar block in a rural camp setting were included in the study. Patients were randomly divided into four groups and received differ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rewari V,Madan R,Kaul HL,Kumar L

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postal survey of anaesthetists practising in New Zealand assessed practices with regard to the preparation of pre-drawn syringes of emergency drugs in theatre, and attitudes towards the drawing up of drugs by non-medically qualified assistants. Opinion and practice varied widely; a quarter of respondents routinely d...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ducat CM,Merry AF,Webster CS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman with a history of intravenous drug use was admitted to hospital with worsening pain in the right buttock radiating to the lateral part of the thigh and to the calf with no suspicion of cauda equina compression. Eventually, a diagnosis of sacroiliitis was made and appropriate antibiotics were admini...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Graham JM,Evans B

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to identify factors influencing outcome in elderly patients operated for hip fracture. In particular, this study examined factors related to mortality at least 30 months post-fracture. Hospital records and death registrations were analysed for 463 patients aged 60 or more years treated for hi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McLeod K,Brodie MP,Fahey PP,Gray RA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the extent of unnecessary investigation performed as part of the preoperative preparation of elective surgical patients in a teaching hospital and to audit the effect of guidelines and education designed to reduce unnecessary investigation. Guidelines were developed for preoperat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Greer AE,Irwin MG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This trial prospectively compares two methods of percutaneous tracheostomy, both routinely used in ICU: the Ciaglia progressive dilational tracheostomy and the Griggs forceps dilational tracheostomy. One hundred patients were randomized using a single-blinded envelope method to receive progressive or forceps percutane...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kaiser E,Cantais E,Goutorbe P,Salinier L,Palmier B

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:The Western Australian Anaesthetic Mortality Committee has collected data since 1980. During this time, reporting of anaesthesia mortality has been mandatory in Western Australia, confidentiality and legal protection have been ensured, consistent definitions and classifications have been used, and reasonable estimates...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gibbs N,Rodoreda P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty intensive care unit patients requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation were randomised to receive either the standard dose of adrenaline (1 mg every five minutes) or high-dose adrenaline (10 mg every five minutes). In the majority of patients, overwhelming sepsis was the major contributing factor leading to cardia...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lipman J,Wilson W,Kobilski S,Scribante J,Lee C,Kraus P,Cooper J,Barr J,Moyes D

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and thirty-nine patients undergoing routine surgical procedures over a five-day period at Royal Brisbane Hospital were interviewed after operation. 66.2% of patients were aware that an anaesthetist needed a medical qualification. 76% expected their anaesthetic to be without complications. 80% were seen pre...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Burrow BJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In taking 1960 as the foundation year for the practice of intensive care medicine in New Zealand, this paper briefly looks into the previous two centuries for some interventions in life-threatening conditions. With the help of descriptions in early 19th century journals and books by perceptive observers, the author fo...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Trubuhovich RV

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized, controlled clinical trial was conducted on 72 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery to compare patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) to nurse-titrated infusion of morphine. Pain and nausea scores were assessed at 5, 20, 32 and 44 hours after cardiopulmonary bypass. Serum cortisol estimations were per...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Myles PS,Buckland MR,Cannon GB,Bujor MA,Langley M,Breaden A,Salamonsen RF,Davis BB

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpura fulminans is a rare but devastating haemorrhagic condition often associated with sepsis. Many different organisms have been implicated in the aetiology of purpura fulminans, most commonly Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae. We report a case of purpura fulminans associated with Lactobacillus pa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Burns D,Hurst JR,Hopkins S,Patch D,Burroughs AK,Agarwal B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of severe rigidity during emergence from general anaesthesia in a 64-year-old man who had suffered from Parkinson's disease for nine years. Controversy still exists over how to optimally manage these patients perioperatively. We successfully managed his Parkinsonism with administration of crushed Sin...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stagg P,Grice T

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pethidine is the only member of the opioid family that has clinically important local anaesthetic activity in the dose range normally used for analgesia. Pethidine is unique as the only opioid in current use that is effective as the sole agent for spinal anaesthesia. In lower doses, intrathecal pethidine is also an ef...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ngan Kee WD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid infusions can cause metabolic acidosis. Mechanisms and relative severity with different colloids are incompletely understood. We compared haemodilution acid-base effects of 4% albumin, 3.5% polygeline, 4% succinylated gelatin (all weak acid colloids, strong ion difference 12 mEq/l, 17.6 mEq/l and 34 mEq/l resp...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Morgan TJ,Vellaichamy M,Cowley DM,Weier SL,Venkatesh B,Jones MA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This narrative review aims to describe the role of peripheral and central immune responses to tissue and nerve damage in animal models, and to discuss the use of immunomodulatory agents in clinical practice and their perioperative implications. Animal models of pain have demonstrated that nerve injury activates immune...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lim JS,Kam PC

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy-two ketamine anesthetics have been given to sixteen children undergoing radiotherapy. Satisfactory conditions were provided in every case and the incidence of complications was low. At the present time ketamine would appear to be the most satisfactory agent in thos children who require sedation...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Edge WG,Morgan M

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of a Medical Emergency Team was developed in order to rapidly identify and manage seriously ill patients at risk of cardiopulmonary arrest and other high-risk conditions. The aim of this study was to describe the utilization and outcome of Medical Emergency Team interventions over a one-year period at a te...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lee A,Bishop G,Hillman KM,Daffurn K

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:The study aim was to investigate the effect of three different morphine doses added to levobupivacaine 0.125% for caudal analgesia after circumcision surgery in children, particularly in relation to the frequency of postoperative vomiting within the first 24 hours following surgery. Two hundred and forty patients aged...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Dostbil A,Gursac Celik M,Aksoy M,Ahiskalioglu A,Celik EC,Alici HA,Ozbey I

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis and respiratory dysfunction leading to multiple system organ failure remains the leading cause of postoperative morbidity and mortality following major surgical procedures. It has been suggested the oxygen free radicals might play a pivotal role in this process. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Szakmany T,Marton S,Molnar Z

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thirty-year-old female presented with a high fever, conjunctivitis, confusion, vomiting, watery diarrhoea, diffuse erythroderma, shock and oliguric renal failure. Staphylococcus aureus phage 29/52 (Group 1) was isolated from a high vaginal swab. In addition to all the previously reported features which defined toxic...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Oh TE,Quinlan MF,Thompson WR,Haywood EF,Lloyd BL,Bower G,Hookway G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the diagnosis of fat embolism syndrome is usually based on clinical findings, we describe ill-defined centrilobular and subpleural nodules in addition to ground-glass opacities and consolidation on a computed tomography scan of the chest in a trauma patient with fat embolism syndrome. The nodules presumably r...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Van den Brande FG,Hellemans S,De Schepper A,De Paep R,Op De Beeck B,De Raeve HR,Jorens PG

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of traumatic cerebral oedema is reported in which the infusion of small volumes of stable plasma protein solution (SPPS) resulted in acute and massive increases in intracranial pressure. The batch of SPPS responsible was found to have high levels of prekallikrein activator which is thought to be the cause of th...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Duncan AW,Gleeson MT

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period 1997 to 2002, 42 children were electively admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the John Hunter Children's Hospital following adenotonsillectomy for severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Forty children had a preoperative sleep study, of which 33 were complete polysomnograms. Of the 42 children...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Walker P,Whitehead B,Rowley M

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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：: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