Sedation depends on the level of sensory block induced by spinal anaesthesia.

abstract：:Cobra venom consists of a neurotoxin which is responsible for respiratory paralysis simulating that associated with a non-depolarizing muscle relaxant. A combination of artificial respiration and neostigmine has been useful in resuscitating a child bitten by a snake. ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Naphade RW,Shetti RN

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of tropisetron, a 5-HT3-receptor antagonist, on postoperative nausea, vomiting and pain in 54 patients, aged 50-83 yr, after major hip or knee surgery. The patients were given subarachnoid injection of plain 0.5% bupivacaine, mixed with preservative-free morphine 0.3 mg, for surgical and pos...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Pitkänen MT,Niemi L,Tuominen MK,Rosenberg PH

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new emulsion formulation of di-isopropyl phenol (propofol) was compared with methohexitone and thiopentone for induction of anaesthesia in day cases. Propofol produced significantly smoother induction of anaesthesia, but caused more cardiovascular and respiratory depression. Pain on injection was significantly les...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Mackenzie N,Grant IS

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have compared two different doses of clonidine (bolus of 25 micrograms and infusion of 19 micrograms h-1; bolus of 50 micrograms and infusion of 37 micrograms h-1, both added to 0.03% bupivacaine) with a control group of 0.03% bupivacaine alone. The study was performed in a randomized, double-blind m...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Tremlett MR,Kelly PJ,Parkins J,Hughes D,Redfern N

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Severely obese parturients have increased 'cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate' risk during Caesarean section under general anaesthesia. Front-of-neck access (FONA) at the cricothyroid membrane (CTM) is definitive management; however, attempted FONA can fail. Point-of-care ultrasonography may provide useful in...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Gadd K,Wills K,Harle R,Terblanche N

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinicians frequently warn patients of discomfort before potentially painful procedures, despite the lack of evidence that such communications are helpful. We aimed to compare two communications (one with, and the other without, a warning of a 'sting') immediately before i.v. cannulation in order to measure ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Dutt-Gupta J,Bown T,Cyna AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate if propofol produced cardiovascular effects by direct actions or by indirect actions secondary to depression of the central nervous system. Experiments were performed on chloralose anaesthetized dogs in which all neurogenic cardiovascular reflexes were abolished by bilateral vago...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Goodchild CS,Serrao JM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-injection targeted intracluster injection ultrasound-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus block has been advocated to provide a faster onset of anaesthesia compared with a double injection technique. By placing the needle within clusters of hypoechoic structures, corresponding to neural tissue, this ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Retter S,Szerb J,Kwofie K,Colp P,Sandeski R,Uppal V

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was carried out to determine analgesic requirements in a group of orthopaedic outpatients (n = 145) and oral surgery inpatients (n = 172). The orthopaedic patients received a codeine-paracetamol premedication, an opioid during operation, or no analgesic. Less than 50% of the orthopaedic patients ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Campbell WI

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model of a subject breathing from a circle system has been used to follow the course of anaesthetic uptake during the simulated administration of 60% nitrous oxide, 2% halothane and 2% methoxyflurane, under non-rebreathing conditions and with fresh gas flows to the circle system of between 8 and 0.25 li...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Conway CM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gapmeter Lab Kit series of flowmeters has been calibrated using air. Two of the flowmeters were also calibrated using argon and oxygen as the priming gases. Linear calibration graphs have been obtained for all the Gapmeters. The two low flow Gapmeters are extremely susceptible to back-pressure. ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Barnes P,Birdi H

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In inflammation, leucocytes containing opioid peptides migrate into the tissue. Opioid peptides can be released and bind to opioid receptors on peripheral nerve terminals, which counteracts inflammatory pain. Migration of opioid peptide-containing leucocytes is controlled by chemokines and adhesion molecules. Neurokin...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Rittner HL,Brack A,Stein C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The usefulness of the PFA-100 in assessing the risk of bleeding in non-cardiac surgery is not clear. This study aims to examine this by correlating preoperative PFA-100 measurement with perioperative bleeding in patients receiving cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. METHODS:PFA-100 with adenosine-5'-diphosphat...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Ng KF,Lawmin JC,Tsang SF,Tang WM,Chiu KY

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We gave either midazolam or propofol for induction of anaesthesia to 140 ASA I or II female patients (18-60 yr). ED50 values were obtained by probit analysis for three clinical end-points: loss of response to command; loss of eyelash reflex; failure to respond to application of an anaesthetic face mask delivering 1% i...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： McClune S,McKay AC,Wright PM,Patterson CC,Clarke RS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analgesia/nociception index (ANI), a 0-100 non-invasive index calculated from heart rate variability, reflects the analgesia/nociception balance during general anaesthesia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ANI in the assessment of immediate postoperative pain in adult patients undergoing general...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Boselli E,Daniela-Ionescu M,Bégou G,Bouvet L,Dabouz R,Magnin C,Allaouchiche B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The second gas effect (SGE) is considered to be significant only during periods of large volume N(2)O uptake (VN(2)O); however, the SGE of small VN(2)O has not been studied. We hypothesized that the SGE of N(2)O on sevoflurane would become less pronounced when sevoflurane administration is started 60 min aft...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Hendrickx JF,Carette R,Lemmens HJ,De Wolf AM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial potassium channels are complexes formed by different subunits. The subunit composition may influence the cardiotoxic action of local anaesthetics. The effects of amide local anaesthetics on HERG channels co-expressed with the putative subunit MiRP1 have not been established. It is also unclear if ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Friederich P,Solth A,Schillemeit S,Isbrandt D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurones in propofol anaesthesia in mice using the righting reflex. Propofol i.p. increased the percentage of loss of the righting reflex in a dose-dependent manner with an ED50 value of 140 (95% confidence limits 123-160) mg kg-1 (n = 40; eight animals per d...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Irifune M,Sugimura M,Takarada T,Maeoka K,Shimizu Y,Dohi T,Nishikawa T,Kawahara M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Priming during anaesthesia has been hard to replicate and the conditions under which it occurs remain poorly understood. We replicated and extended a recent study to determine whether intraoperative priming during propofol and nitrous oxide anaesthesia is a reliable phenomenon, whether it occurs due to aware...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Deeprose C,Andrade J,Harrison D,Edwards N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the anaesthetic and analgesic efficacy of levobupivacaine with that of racemic bupivacaine in 66 male patients undergoing ambulatory primary inguinal herniorrhaphy. Patients were allocated randomly in a double-blind manner to local infiltration anaesthesia (0.25% w/v 50 ml) with either racemic bupivac...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Bay-Nielsen M,Klarskov B,Bech K,Andersen J,Kehlet H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial PO2 (PaO2) has been related to inspired oxygen concentration (FIO2 range 0.21-0.60) in 20 patients, breathing spontaneously, while recovering from a range of conditions treated in an intensive therapy unit. There was a highly significant linear trend (P < 0.001) for the mean venous admixture ("virtual shunt")...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Petros AJ,Doré CJ,Nunn JF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We studied the potential neuroprotective effects of halothane and desflurane, compared with the awake state, on infarct size following 2 h of intraluminal middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) and 22 h of reperfusion. METHODS:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were anaesthetized with desflurane or halothane, intuba...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Haelewyn B,Yvon A,Hanouz JL,MacKenzie ET,Ducouret P,Gérard JL,Roussel S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient dissatisfaction has been previously associated with motor block in shoulder surgery patients receiving brachial plexus block. For elective minor wrist and hand surgery, we tested whether a regional block accelerating the early return of upper extremity motor function would improve patient satisfactio...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Fredrickson MJ,Wolstencroft PJ,Chinchanwala S,Boland MR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to find, using modern techniques, any histological differences in muscle biopsies between malignant hyperthermia (MH) susceptible (MHS), MH equivocal (MHE) and MH negative (MHN) patients. On the basis of the European MH contracture test carried out in 83 patients, 23 were shown to be MHS, nin...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Mezin P,Payen JF,Bosson JL,Brambilla E,Stieglitz P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atropine and glycopyrronium are frequently used for premedication to reduce oral and respiratory secretions and prevent bradycardia. Glycopyrronium is said to have similar antisialagogue effects, but is less likely to cause significant tachycardia than atropine. Different antimuscarinic receptor selectivity patterns c...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Gomez A,Bellido I,Sanchez de la Cuesta F

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The molecular actions underlying the clinical effects of inhaled anaesthetics such as sevoflurane and isoflurane are not fully understood. Unexpected observations in positron emission tomography (PET) studies with [11C]AZD9272, a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) radioligand with possible affinity f...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Varnäs K,Finnema SJ,Johnström P,Arakawa R,Halldin C,Eriksson LI,Farde L

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 13 patients with diabetic nephropathy and 13 patients with uraemia of other origin undergoing renal transplantation, and 12 control patients undergoing general surgery. QTc dispersion and maximum QTc interval were calculated from the 12-lead ECG, and cardiovascular autonomic function tests were perform...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Kirvelä M,Yli-Hankala A,Lindgren L

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new pattern of nerve stimulation--double burst stimulation (DBS)--to detect residual neuromuscular block manually. The DBS consists of two short lasting, 50-Hz tetanic stimuli or bursts separated by a 750-ms interval. The response to this pattern of stimulation is two single separated muscle contractions ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Engbaek J,Ostergaard D,Viby-Mogensen J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiorespiratory effects of increasing respiratory frequency were investigated in two groups of dogs ventilated mechanically with a system which minimized apparatus and anatomical deadspace. In one group minute volume was constant whilst frequency was increased; in the second group minute volume was increased to ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Chakrabarti MK,Sykes MK

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The debate on lung-protective ventilation strategies for surgical patients is ongoing. Evidence suggests that the use of low tidal volume VT improves clinical outcomes. However, the optimal levels of PEEP and recruitment manoeuvre (RM) strategies incorporated into low VT ventilation remain unclear. METHODS:...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Deng QW,Tan WC,Zhao BC,Wen SH,Shen JT,Xu M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00