Successful use of ECMO in adults with life-threatening infections.

abstract：:Normal saline or air is used to identify loss of resistance during identification of the epidural space for combined spinal-epidural analgesia. Following epidural needle placement using air for loss of resistance, up to 80% of parturients move, grimace, vocalise or experience paraesthesia or dysaesthesia during subseq...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： van den Berg AA,Ghatge S,Wang S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1863 the British surgeon, Henry Thompson, departed for Belgium to attend Leopold, King of the Belgians. The King was in agony: he had suffered with bladder stones for months and multiple procedures, without anaesthesia, had failed to relieve his symptoms. Henry Thompson was therefore consulted about the possibi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ball C

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway management is one of the core skills of the anaesthetist and various techniques of airway management have developed over many years. Initially, the only view of the glottis that could be obtained was an indirect view (indirect laryngoscopy). Late in the 19th century, a direct view of the glottis was obtained vi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Pieters BM,Eindhoven GB,Acott C,van Zundert AA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study in coronary artery bypass graft patients was undertaken to assess the effect of gentamicin and a bypass prime with a high calcium on the incidence of renal failure. Patients who received both Haemaccel (polygeline, Hoechst Marion Roussel) (calcium concentration 6.25 mmol/l) in the bypass prime an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Schneider M,Valentine S,Clarke GM,Newman MA,Peacock J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two published versions of a letter in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD, recommended the name anaesthesia were identified from publications supportive of the claims of W. T. G. Morton. The earliest known publication of Holmes' letter is in a pamphlet published by Edward Warren in May-June 1847. Another version of the le...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Haridas RP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an incident involving a Fisher and Paykel "There in One Respiratory Care System" (Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, Auckland, New Zealand). This is a new ventilator circuit designed to be adaptable to the needs of ventilator, intubated CPAP, and mask therapies. In this case the patient had received eight hours o...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gowardman JR,Moriarty B

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three cases of anaphylaxis during anaesthesia confirmed on intradermal testing to be related to patent blue V dye (Guerbet - Chemical Abstract Service 3536-49-0). All three cases were associated with moderate to severe hypotension. Two cases had delayed onset, and two were associated with a rash. None of the...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Howard JD,Moo V,Sivalingam P

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:The history of hypoxia prevention is closely inter-related with high altitude mountain and aviation physiology. One pioneering attempt to overcome low inspired oxygen partial pressures in aviation was the BLB mask-named after the three designers-Walter M Boothby, W Randolph Lovelace II and Arthur H Bulbulian. This mas...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Cooper MG,Street NE

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:We report a case of palatopharyngeal wall perforation during intubation with a GlideScope laryngoscope. The likely mechanism was advancing and rotating the endotracheal tube against a taut palatopharyngeal fold. This was missed during the initial laryngoscopy, because there is a potential blind-spot in the oropharynx ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Leong WL,Lim Y,Sia AT

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of an academic department of anaesthesia over its first ten years at McMaster Medical School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is described. The organisation and goals of the department are described within the context of the regional organisation of health care delivery and of the functions of the faculty...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rigg JR

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not many centres measure intracranial pressure during an endoscopic procedure. However, if the irrigation fluid during endoscopy is not simultaneously drained, then some rise in intracranial pressure can be anticipated. This study was carried out to measure and monitor changes in intracranial pressure during the irrig...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Prabhakar H,Rath GP,Bithal PK,Suri A,Dash H

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexmedetomidine shows promise of being an airway-stable drug. It is approved in Australia for procedural sedation. However, it is important to note that in the study on which this indication is based, all the subjects received a local anaesthetic block before their procedure or surgery. In this regard, as Health Canad...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Keane MJ,Manikappa S,Alrawi NN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen saturations of 152 children were studied for the first 30 minutes following general anaesthesia with a pulse oximeter. Thirty-six patients (24%) recorded oxygen saturations of less than 90% while breathing room air and in all cases this occurred during the first ten minutes. Intubation (P less than 0.001), ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tomkins DP,Gaukroger PB,Bentley MW

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients undergoing hip replacement surgery were studied regarding activation of complement and leukocytes in association with collection of wound drainage blood. The blood was collected postoperatively but not reinfused due to the possible risks with reinfusion of blood containing inflammatory mediators. Blood sa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Arnold JP,Haeger M,Bengtson JP,Bengtsson A,Lisander B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current donor management practices target macrohaemodynamic parameters, but it is unclear if this leads to improvements in microvascular perfusion and tissue oxygenation; the latter may have more impact on organ status. In a recent preclinical study we determined that brain death impaired tissue perfusion and oxygen u...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Perez-Protto SE,Reynolds JD,Nazemian R,You J,Hata JS,Latifi SQ,Lebovitz DJ

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromuscular blocking agents are often avoided in anticipated difficult airway scenarios. However to facilitate jet ventilation, muscle relaxants are useful. We report a case of a potentially threatened airway in a 21-year-old with a large infraglottic pedunculated polyp. In this case rocuronium was used on induction...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McTernan CN,Rapeport DA,Ledowski T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frailty assessment in patients admitted to intensive care is often limited using traditional clinical frailty assessment tools. Opportunistic use of contemporary computed tomography (CT) can provide an objective estimate of low skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) as a proxy for frailty. The aim of this study was to esta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Joyce PR,O'Dempsey R,Kirby G,Anstey C

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI / ARDS) is the most serious pulmonary complication after lung resection. This study investigated the incidence and outcome of patients with ALI / ARDS who required mechanical ventilation within one week of undergoing pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer and a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jeon K,Yoon JW,Suh GY,Kim J,Kim K,Yang M,Kim H,Kwon OJ,Shim YM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) can reduce pulmonary arterial hypertension and improve oxygenation in some patients with severe respiratory or heart failure. Despite this, iNO has not been found to improve survival. This study aimed to perform a local practice audit to assess the mortality predictors of critically ill pati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rolley L,Bandeshe H,Boots RJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Three groups, each of forty children aged less than five years and prepared for elective surgery, had their gastric contents' volume and pH measured. The control group showed an incidence of 67-5 per cent with high acidity (pH equal to or less than 2-5). In the second and third groups magnesium trisilicate mixture was...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Hutchinson BR

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small group learning may be defined as a group of learners demonstrating three common characteristics; active participation, a specific task and reflection. This article provides an overview of small group learning and teaching, describes the characteristics of this form of small group work, benefits, problems, potent...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jones RW

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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：:The use of summary answers to a question as an aid to introducing and guiding a tutorial is described using as an example a question about the physiological changes associated with pyrexia. It illustrates a method that involves all the students and develops a logical comprehensive answer that can also be helpful to st...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Brown TC

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of the shoulder to facilitate passage of J-wires past the clavicle during external jugular vein catheterization was tested prospectively in 111 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery. On 10 of 25 occasions when the wire would not pass into the thorax, manipulation of the shoulder then allowed the wire ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Sparks CJ,McSkimming I,George L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the perioperative profiles of patients undergoing unilateral phaeochromocytoma resection performed by open adrenalectomy with those performed by laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Data was collected prospectively on 24 patients (12 open, 12 laparoscopic). All patients underwent extensive preoperative medical prep...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Davies MJ,McGlade DP,Banting SW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00