Anatomical and ultrasound description of two transmuscular quadratus lumborum block approaches at L2 level and their application in abdominal surgery.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of propofol versus thiopentone on haemodynamics during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), as estimated by echocardiography. Twenty-eight ASA 1 or 2 patients scheduled for ECT were randomly divided into two groups, to receive propofol 1 mg/kg (propofol group, n = 14) or...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kadoi Y,Saito S,Ide M,Toda H,Sekimoto K,Seki S,Takahashi K,Goto F

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There were 160 incidents associated with regional anaesthesia amongst the first 2000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study. They were categorised into 6 groups; epidural anaesthesia (83), spinal anaesthesia (42), brachial plexus blocks (14), intravenous local anaesthesia (4), ocular blocks (3)...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fox MA,Webb RK,Singleton R,Ludbrook G,Runciman WB

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the anaesthesia care of an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program for patients having abdominal surgical in Victorian hospitals. The main outcome measure was the number of ERAS items implemented following introduction of the ERAS program. Secondary endpoints included proce...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Thompson EG,Gower ST,Beilby DS,Wallace S,Tomlinson S,Guest GD,Cade R,Serpell JS,Myles PS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-item questionnaire (the QoR-40) had been previously developed to measure five dimensions of quality of recovery after anaesthesia and surgery. Each of the 40 items is rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with a maximum score of 200. In this study we compared patient self-administered with investigator-administered QoR-40....

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gower ST,Quigg CA,Hunt JO,Wallace SK,Myles PS

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Venous thromboembolism is an important complication after general and cardiac surgery. Using transthoracic echocardiography, this study assessed the incidence of inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis among a total of 395 and 289 cardiac surgical and major surgical patients in the immediate postoperative period after car...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Saranteas T,Kostopanagiotou G,Tzoufi M,Drachtidi K,Knox GM,Panou F

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomised and blinded study evaluated the quality of analgesia and the incidence of side-effects of two concentrations of levobupivacaine (0.15% and 0.5%) given as an equal mg-bolus-dose (5 mg) via patient-controlled epidural analgesia after lower abdominal surgery. The patients were randomly assigned into two g...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Dernedde M,Stadler M,Taviaux N,Boogaerts JG

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the clinical characteristics, required intervention and short- and long-term outcomes in obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients requiring intensive care. A retrospective, single-centre, observational cohort study was undertaken in a multidisciplinary teaching medical and surgical intensive care unit. Adul...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Hang LW,Chen W,Liang SJ,Lin YC,Tu CY,Chen HJ,Chiu KL

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Perioperative hypoxaemia is a common but serious problem with well recognised causes. However, an anomalous bronchus causing lobar collapse as a cause is seldom mentioned. A healthy young male patient was anaesthetised for a knee operation. He required re-intubation immediately postoperatively for hypoxia. He was foun...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Critchley LA,Ho AM,Lee SY

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients were studied to determine the changes in pancuronium requirements during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. They were anaesthetised with fentanyl as the principal agent, ventilated with oxygen and the neuromuscular junction was monitored using train-of-four stimulation. After a bolus dose of pancuroniu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Futter ME,Whalley DG,Wynands JE,Bevan DR

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conscious subjects breathing spontaneously the performance of the Lack semi-closed system resembled the Magill attachment in that rebreathing was only detected at fresh gas flows of less than resting minute volume. With the Bain semi-closed system rebreathing was detectable at fresh gas flows of the order of 2.5 ti...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nott MR,Walters FJ,Norman J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical use of potent, well-tolerated, broad-spectrum antibiotics has been paralleled by the development of resistance in bacteria, and the prevalence of highly resistant bacteria in some intensive care units is despairingly commonplace. The intensive care community faces the realistic prospect of untreatable nos...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Iredell J,Lipman J

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Eighty-two patients presenting for major abdominal surgery were divided into five groups, and received intravenous ketamine, muscle relaxation and controlled ventilation with oxygen-enriched air. For maintenance of anaesthesia patients were given a single intravenous dose of either droperidol 5 mg, diazepam 5 mg, prom...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Houlton PJ,Downing JW,Brock-Utne JG

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sub-Tenon's technique uses blunt dissection and a blunt probe to inject local anaesthetic into the posterior sub-Tenon's space. This avoids the potentially catastrophic complications which result from passing a sharp needle blindly into the orbit and retrobulbar space. The anatomy of Tenon's capsule and the block ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Guise PA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare the efficacy of subarachnoid morphine alone or in combination with bupivacaine and fentanyl for combined spinal-epidural analgesia in colorectal surgery. This is a prospective, randomised, double-blind clinical trial. Sixty patients undergoing low anterior resection were assigned to ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stamenkovic D,Geric V,Djordjevic M,Raskovic J,Slavkovic Z,Randjelovic T,Karanikolas M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that haemodynamic changes to intubation and postoperative pharyngolaryngeal morbidity are similar for blind intubating laryngeal mask (ILM)-guided compared with laryngoscope-guided tracheal intubation in adults with normal airways. We also compared intubation success rates and airway complicat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kihara S,Watanabe S,Taguchi N,Suga A,Brimacombe JR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no consensus that hyperglycaemia is an independent predictor of morbidity-mortality in children. This retrospective observational study aimed to assess the association between abnormal perioperative glucose levels and adverse outcomes in infants receiving open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. The re...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Huang XZ,Wang H,Xu HZ,Ye M,Jiang P,Xu Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate the characteristics and outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred outside of the hospital critical care areas. A prospective register of adult in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring in non-critical care areas of Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand, fr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Smith S,Shipton EA,Wells JE

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：: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 Industrial Revolution saw the creation of many new jobs, but probably none more curious than that of zookeeper. The London Zoological Gardens, established for members in 1828, was opened to the general public in 1847. In 1852 the "Head Keeper in the Serpent Room", Edward Horatio Girling, spent a night farewelling ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ball C

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A medium sized minicomputer system is presented as an attractive way of balancing the cost of computing equipment with that of programme development. A versatile circuit has been coupled to a computer system and programmes have been developed to control the functions of this circuit. With such a system it is possible ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Crankshaw DP,Hall BR

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-five consecutive patients referred to an anaesthetic allergy clinic were intradermally tested with atracurium and cisatracurium. With the exception of one patient the results were identical, suggesting that allergy to either drug is associated with allergy to the stereoisomer. For skin testing for allergy to n...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fisher MM

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The cerebral and systemic kinetics of intravenous thiopentone (250 mg over 2 minutes, n=5) and propofol (100 mg over 2 minutes, n=6) were determined in sheep anaesthetized with halothane (2.0%) and mechanically ventilated to an end-expired carbon dioxide tension of 40 mmHg. The sheep were previously instrumented with ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Upton RN,Ludbrook GL,Grant C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen peroxide solutions are found in almost every operating theatre and are used by many surgical specialties, often with little knowledge of their inherent risk. We reviewed the literature and evidence related to the use of hydrogen peroxide in surgery. We found little evidence supporting the use of hydrogen pero...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Reid CJ,Alcock M,Penn D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00