Randomised controlled trial comparing the Ambu® aScope™2 with a conventional fibreoptic bronchoscope in orotracheal intubation of anaesthetised adult patients.

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：:Epidural opioids have been used in obstetrics since 1980. Various opioids are reviewed in relation to their pharmacology, their efficacy in labour, during caesarean section and for postoperative analgesia, their side-effects and safety. In this patient population it appears safe to administer epidural opioids on the g...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Westmore MD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency chest reopen of the post cardiac surgical patient in the intensive care unit is a high-stakes but infrequent procedure which requires a high-level team response and a unique skill set. We evaluated the impact on knowledge and confidence of team-based chest reopen training using a patient simulator compared w...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nunnink L,Welsh AM,Abbey M,Buschel C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to describe, in Australian and New Zealand adult intensive care units, the relative frequency in which various clinical criteria were used to predict weaning and extubation, and the weaning methods employed. Participant intensivists at 55 intensive care units completed a self-administered questionnai...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rose L,Presneill JJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthoracic echocardiography is often used to screen patients prior to non-cardiac surgery to detect conditions associated with perioperative haemodynamic compromise and to stratify risk. However, anaesthetists' use of echocardiography is quite variable. A consortium led by the American College of Cardiology Foundat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Faris JG,Hartley K,Fuller CM,Langston RB,Royse CF,Veltman MG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the causes and preventability of primary anaesthetic deaths in Western Australia between 1985 and 2008. In Western Australia, it is a legal requirement to report all deaths that occur within 48 hours of an anaesthetic and later deaths if an anaesthetic complication is implicated. A committee asse...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gibbs NM,Rodoreda P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catecholamine-resistant shock is not uncommon in intensive care. Bolus dose terlipressin (a vasopressin analogue) has been used successfully in this setting allowing cessation of other vasopressor agents. The relative vasopressin deficiency in combination with the restoration of the vascular tone (by blocking adenosin...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jolley DH,De Keulenaer BL,Potter A,Stephens DP

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Organic insecticide poisoning continues to be a major health problem not only in the developing communities but also in the Western population. The insecticides commonly used are the organophosphates, organocarbamates, organochlorides and pyrethroids. Patients with organic insecticide poisoning present with a spectrum...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Peter JV,Cherian AM

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Administration of suxamethonium to patients with critical illness polyneuropathy may produce life-threatening hyperkalaemia. A questionnaire to assess the awareness of this problem was sent to all UK intensive care units. A clinical scenario suggestive of critical illness polyneuropathy was accompanied by a list of po...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Hughes M,Grant IS,Biccard B,Nimmo G

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have revolutionised many areas of medicine, particularly research and diagnostics. Murine, human and humanized mAb have all been developed. The most important clinical applications to date have been in the fields of transplantation and oncology. Experimental and limited clinical trials sugg...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Peake S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an audit of needle cricothyroidotomy and transtracheal ventilation used during anaesthesia for elective endolaryngeal surgery. The data on 90 consecutive procedures was collected over two years. Patients were anaesthetized using a total intravenous technique. An intravenous cannula or Tuohy needle was p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Russell WC,Maguire AM,Jones GW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unplanned intensive care unit admission within 24 hours of a procedure with an anaesthetist in attendance (UIA) is a recommended clinical indicator It is designed to identify preventable iatrogenic complications. Often understood as a specific anaesthetic outcome, its value has been repeatedly questioned. Iatrogeni...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Haller G,Myles PS,Langley M,Stoelwinder J,McNeil J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess whether eosinopenia was a reliable diagnostic marker of bloodstream infection in hospitalised adult and paediatric patients. The design was a case-control study, set in a tertiary adult and paediatric hospital. A total of 157 adult and 85 paediatric patients with bloodstream i...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Wibrow BA,Ho KM,Flexman JP,Keil AD,Kohrs DL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical framework for the formulation of a derived variable to be used for the prediction of the net effect of unmeasured charged species present in human extracellular fluid was explored. This new variable was based on contemporary strong ion and classical buffer base theories and tested against the standard ba...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Anstey CM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the efficacy and safety of ultra rapid (15 minute) infusion of iron polymaltose to iron deficient patients during general anaesthesia, we performed a prospective, interventional non-randomised study on 99 adult patients with iron deficiency with or without anaemia presenting for surgery under general anaesth...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Browning RM,Alakeson N,O'Loughlin EJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Finapres (Ohmeda, Madison, U.S.A.) is a non-invasive device which continuously measures the arterial blood pressure in a finger and produces a real-time display of the arterial pressure wave. It consists of a finger cuff with an infra-red transmission plethysmograph, a servo control box and a monitor unit. The dev...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kermode JL,Davis NJ,Thompson WR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to assess the changes in pulmonary mechanics before and after tracheostomy in patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation and to detect pre-tracheostomy physiologic factors that predict the outcome of weaning from mechanical ventilation. Pulmonary mechanics were recorded before and after tr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lin MC,Huang CC,Yang CT,Tsai YH,Tsao TC

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to achieve the maximum therapeutic benefit in the treatment of malignancies, doses of chemotherapeutic agents are pushed to the point of severe marrow toxicity. This aggressive therapy can lead to iatrogenic complications including haemorrhage and sepsis due to the depletion of platelets and granulocytes. Pri...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tobias JD,Schleien C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prone positioning to improve oxygenation in acute lung injury was first reported over 20 years ago. Although this and several subsequent studies have shown that prone positioning improved oxygenation in the majority of patients, it has failed to become common practice in intensive care units. This paper reviews the me...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tobin A,Kelly W

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：: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：:The first human infection with Chromobacterium violaceum was recorded in 1927, but since then there have been about 33 cases reported worldwide, including two from Australia. Chr. violaceum occurs in the tropics and subtropics and is generally considered to be nonpathogenic, but infection can occur in patients who are...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Martin J,Brimacombe J

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Costing data for intensive care admissions is important, not only for unit funding, but also for cost outcome analysis of new therapies. This paper presents an intensive care episode costing methodology using the example of a cost-benefit analysis of mask CPAP for severe cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (CPO). This analys...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Holt AW,Bersten AD,Fuller S,Piper RK,Worthley LI,Vedig AE

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:In this study we investigated in vitro and in vivo effects of propofol in malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) patients in order to assess the safety of propofol infusion as a non-triggering anaesthetic technique for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In vitro, human MHS muscle samples were exposed to propofol...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McKenzie AJ,Couchman KG,Pollock N

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：: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：:The effect of hypothermia on the action of d-tubocurarine (d-TC) was studied under carefully controlled experimental conditions. It was found that with computer controlled infusion, 60% less d-TC was required to sustain 75% muscle paralysis in cats, during steady-state, in vivo, when the temperature was changed from 3...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Lam HS,Brown TC,Lampard DG

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00