Intrathecal pethidine: pharmacology and clinical applications.

abstract：:The first 2000 incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring study (AIMS) were examined to identify those incidents which occurred preoperatively (defined as occurring prior to the commencement of general or regional anaesthesia). The 35 incidents, representing 1.7% of the total, which occurred in this time...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ludbrook GL,Webb RK,Fox MA,Singleton RJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breathing through an endotracheal tube, connector, and ventilator demand valve imposes an added load on the respiratory muscles. As respiratory muscle fatigue is thought to be a frequent cause of ventilator dependence, we sought to examine the efficacy of five different ventilators in reducing this imposed work throug...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Bersten AD,Rutten AJ,Vedig AE

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：: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：:Surgical field infiltration with adrenaline is common practice for quality surgical field during cleft lip and palate repair in children. Intravascular absorption of adrenaline infiltration often leads to adverse haemodynamic responses. In this prospective, double-blinded, randomised study the haemodynamic effects, qu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Muthukumar M,Arya VK,Mathew PJ,Sharma RK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Thrombelastography® is a monitor of coagulation and fibrinolytic status, with point-of-care applications in managing haemorrhaging patients. Advocates have suggested a possible role in managing obstetric haemorrhage. This study aims to develop a pregnancy-specific thrombelastography-guided transfusion algorithm, which...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Hill JS,Devenie G,Powell M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently a shortage of organ donors to meet the demands of transplantation waiting lists. In recent years there has been renewed interest in donation after cardiac death in order to increase the pool of potential donors. The Organ and Tissue Authority has recently developed a national policy for donation aft...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Sidiropoulos S,McEvoy L,Steel S,Silvester W,Warrillow S,Bolch S,Jones D

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：: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：: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：:The inflammatory reactions and tissue response after oesophagectomy are leading causes of postoperative morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the effects of intraoperative infusion of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, (A-a) DO2, pulmonary function and complications. This randomised double-blind c...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Farrokhnia E,Makarem J,Khan ZH,Mohagheghi M,Maghsoudlou M,Abdollahi A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many deceased by neurologic criteria donors are administered inhalational agents during organ recovery surgery-a process that is characterised by warm and cold ischaemia followed by warm reperfusion. In certain settings, volatile anaesthetics (VA) are known to precondition organs to protect them from subsequent ischae...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Perez-Protto S,Nazemian R,Matta M,Patel P,Wagner KJ,Latifi SQ,Lebovitz DJ,Reynolds JD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) frequently have underlying cardiac dysfunction. Early interventions are sometimes difficult to initiate because of diagnostic uncertainty as to whether cardiac failure is present As B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has been shown to be increased in cardiac dysfunction,...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McLean AS,Tang B,Nalos M,Huang SJ,Stewart DE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was conducted to investigate the attitudes of anaesthetists and nurses to anaesthetic pollution. In order that the results could be viewed in context, attitudes to other possible occupational hazards, including radiation exposure and work-related stress, were also investigated. Four hundred (66%) completed qu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Plummer JL,Sandison CH,Ilsley AH,Cousins MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to determine the time constants of elimination and effect compartment equilibration of suxamethonium and for the slope exponent of the Hill equation. Twelve patients were anaesthetized with thiopentone, fentanyl, and isoflurane in nitrous oxide and oxygen. After allowing conditions to become sta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Torda TA,Graham GG,Warwick NR,Donohue P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old man with cardiac failure and renal impairment was admitted to the cardiothoracic intensive care unit with metformin-induced lactic acidosis and shock. He was successfully treated with high-dose (80 ml/kg/hour) continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration. Lactic acidosis is a known complication of metformin ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Pan LT,MacLaren G

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The current trend to treat hypotension in critically ill patients is to place a greater emphasis on inotropic support and less on fluid resuscitation in order to limit the potential harm from fluid overload. This combination may trigger left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) in susceptible patients. Althou...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Evans JS,Huang SJ,McLean AS,Nalos M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A survey was conducted among 259 New Zealand specialist anaesthetists to assess attitudes and practices with regard to epidural or subarachnoid anaesthesia (ESA). Ninety-four per cent replied and virtually all of the respondents indicated that they performed ESA at some time. ESA was used by most anaesthetists for mos...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rodgers A,Sage D,Futter M,MacMahon S

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In a prospective double-blind study, single-dose lumbar epidural blockade was administered to 60 healthy patients undergoing lower abdominal surgery, the patients lying in the lateral position only during the time of injection of the local anaesthetic. Solutions used were bupivacaine HCl 0.5%, lignocaine HCl 2% and li...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Seow LT,Lips FJ,Cousins MJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transoesophageal Doppler cardiac output measurement was evaluated against the thermodilution method in eleven patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. A total of 106 pairs of Doppler and thermodilution values were obtained. Cardiac output was measured over a range of 2.3 l.min-1. to 11.51 l.min-1. The mean differ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stein MS,Barratt SM,Purcell GJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00