Neuroimmune mechanisms of pain: Basic science and potential therapeutic modulators.

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 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：: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：:A three-month audit of isoflurane consumption at Palmerston North Hospital in 1994 showed an averaged vapour flow rate of approx 85 ml per minute of anaesthesia, equivalent to 1.4% isoflurane at six litres per minute. After purchasing volatile agent analysers, a program encouraging low flow anaesthesia and providing a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McKenzie AJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten critically ill patients underwent this prospective study to assess the reliability of the continuous thermodilution versus transoesophageal Doppler techniques in the determination of continuous cardiac output (CO) and systemic vascular resistance (SVR). A total of 145 pairs of CO and SVR measurements were obtained...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Baillard C,Cohen Y,Fosse JP,Karoubi P,Hoang P,Cupa M

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Twenty-four cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) perfusion units around Australia were surveyed to determine the characteristics of CPB perfusion as practised in Australia in 1992. Twenty completed survey forms were received. Findings were compared with those of a similar study performed by one of the authors for the year 198...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Wajon PR,Walsh RG,Symons NL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rupture of the oesophagus (Boerhaave's syndrome) is a rare complication of forceful or suppressed vomiting. Postoperative nausea and vomiting is common but does not usually lead to life-threatening complications. A case of oesophageal rupture in a man who experienced postoperative nausea and vomiting after an uncompli...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Baric A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iatrogenic meningitis is a rare complication of spinal anaesthesia. It is mandatory to use a technique which minimises the risk of introducing bacteria into the subarachnoid space. Currently available fentanyl ampoules require a careful drawing-up technique, as the outside of the ampoule is not sterile and there is po...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Merriman S,Paech MJ,Keil AD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are presented which illustrate the disastrous consequences possible when an anaesthetic breathing circuit is obstructed by a foreign body. Despite reports of previous similar cases, work practices and equipment manufacture or design continue to allow for such events to occur. The importance of both pre-anaes...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Foreman MJ,Moyes DG

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide survey (70% response) documented anaesthetists' hours of work, their perceptions about safety limits and their recollection of fatigue-related errors in clinical practice. In the preceding six months, 71% of trainees and 58% of specialists had exceeded their self-defined safety limits for continuous anaes...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gander PH,Merry A,Millar MM,Weller J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis, a rare disease in children, occurs in a variety of forms. The aetiology and clinical presentations are reviewed. Eight patients who were studied with electromyography are presented. The results show that, in general, patients with the usual pattern of disease are resistant to suxamethonium (ED95 3-4...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Brown TC,Gebert R,Meretoja OA,Shield LK

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:Adverse events after surgery are common. Identification of markers of at-risk patients may facilitate efficient and effective perioperative resource allocation. This pilot study aimed to identify simple preoperative factors associated with postoperative adverse events. In 1291 surgical patients, the relationship betwe...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Seglenieks R,Painter TW,Ludbrook GL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inexpensive and convenient method of collecting waste gases from the open-tailed bag of a T-piece system is described. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Keneally JP,Overton JH

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid storm is a rare but life-threatening condition manifesting with several clinical presentations. Atypical thyroid storm should be part of the differential diagnosis in patients with multiple organ dysfunction of unknown aetiology. In this case report, delayed recognition of thyroid storm in a young female who p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Karanikolas M,Velissaris D,Karamouzos V,Filos KS

更新日期：2009-11-01 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 efficacy of the McCoy laryngoscope, external laryngeal pressure, and their combination to improve the laryngoscopic view was evaluated in 219 patients and compared with the Macintosh laryngoscope. An experienced laryngoscopist performed laryngoscopy twice using the Macintosh laryngoscope and the McCoy laryngoscope...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Harioka T,Nomura K,Mukaida K,Hosoi S,Nakao S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a model of anaesthetic uptake and distribution, developed for use as a teaching tool, is able to predict end-tidal isoflurane and sevoflurane concentrations at least as well as commonly used propofol models predict blood levels of propofol. Models with good predictive performance may be u...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kennedy R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin is a commonly used antibiotic due to the high burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. This study aimed to describe the pharmacokinetics (PK) of vancomycin in Australian Indigenous patients with severe sepsis, and advise an optimal dosing strategy. A population PK study was c...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tsai D,Stewart PC,Hewagama S,Krishnaswamy S,Wallis SC,Lipman J,Roberts JA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical structure of drug molecules determines their fundamental pharmacological properties by 'fit' to the receptor, but the physicochemical properties, particularly lipid solubility and fraction un-ionised, dominate in determining distribution in the body and the rate of access to the biophase containing the dr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Mather LE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate a non-volitional measurement to assess diaphragmatic function in intubated and mechanically ventilated patients in a prospective pilot interventional clinical trial. The study was conducted in an 18-bed postoperative intensive care unit based at a university hospital. Patien...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Buscher H,Valta P,Boie T,Hinz J,Moerer O,Sydow M,Mudaliar MY,Burchardi H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective casenote audit involving 374 patients requiring intubation for an anaesthetic found that when the availability of sugammadex became unrestricted, its use increased from 7.1 to 65.3% (P <0.0001) of all muscle relaxant reversals, while neostigmine use decreased from 59.6 to 12.5%. Rocuronium use decre...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Watts RW,London JA,van Wijk RM,Lui YL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of rupture of the left main bronchus in a female patient with oesophageal carcinoma, who had received thoracic radiotherapy preoperatively. Endotracheal intubation was achieved with a left-sided double-lumen tube. After almost three hours of intubation and one and half hours of one-lung ventilation, b...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jha RR,Mishra S,Bhatnagar S

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Defects in the genes coding for the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RYR1) and alpha 1 subunit of the dihydropyridine receptor (CACNA1S) have been identified as causative for malignant hyperthermia (MH). Sixty-two MH susceptible individuals presenting to the same diagnostic centre had copy deoxyribonucleic acid, de...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gillies RL,Bjorksten AR,Du Sart D,Hockey BM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive challenge was used to investigate twenty-seven patients with a history of an adverse response to local anaesthesia. True allergy was detected in only one patient. The method does not exclude reactions to additives and preservatives in local anaesthetics. If preservative-free local anaesthetics are used for...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fisher MM,Graham R

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：: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：: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