Fluidic technology. A discussion and a description of a fluidic controlled ventilator for use with high flow oxygen techniques.

abstract：:We have compared a rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia using propofol 2 mg.kg-1 and alfentanil 50 micrograms.kg-1, with a standard technique using thiopentone 5 mg.kg-1 and suxamethonium 1 mg.kg-1. The incidence of complications, and the quality of conditions for intubation, were similar in both groups. The patien...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Beck GN,Masterson GR,Richards J,Bunting P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper and the one that preceded it1 have traced the development of the design and use of negative pressure ventilators from their origins in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Their maximum use was in the nineteen-forties and the early fifties after which they were quite rapidly replaced in the trea...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Woollam CH

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve stimulation is considered by many to be the current 'gold standard' for locating peripheral nerves. Thirteen nerve stimulators were subjected to a battery of tests performed by two independent observers under standardised conditions using a digital oscilloscope, a calibrated resistance and a novel scoring system...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Jochum D,Iohom G,Diarra DP,Loughnane F,Dupré LJ,Bouaziz H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute risk change has been described as the difference in calculated mortality risk between the pre-operative and postoperative periods of cardiac surgery. We aimed to assess whether this was associated with long-term survival after cardiac surgery. We retrospectively analysed 22,570 cardiac surgical patients, with mi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Coulson TG,Bailey M,Reid CM,Tran L,Mullany DV,Smith JA,Pilcher D

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described in which recovery from the administration of a single dose of etomidate was complicated by periodic episodes of unconsciousness, tremor and apnoea. Subsequent investigations did not reveal any evidence of neurological disease. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Parker CJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective audit of blood glucose control after introducing a new protocol for insulin infusion. The audit showed a sustained reduction in the median blood glucose, which decreased from 7.0 to 6.8 mmol x l(-1), primarily because of a reduction in the proportion of values above 6 mmol x l(-1). When we...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bone EG,Young D,Chantler J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether permitting women in labour to eat a light diet would: (i) alter their metabolic profile, (ii) influence the outcome of labour, and (iii) increase residual gastric volume and consequent risk of pulmonary aspiration. Women were randomised to receive either a light diet (eat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Scrutton MJ,Metcalfe GA,Lowy C,Seed PT,O'Sullivan G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a retropharyngeal carcinoma was anaesthetized for laryngoscopy, oesophagoscopy and biopsy. Suggestive symptoms of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula were absent and a barium swallow did not demonstrate its presence. Sign of an abnormal communication appeared for the first time after the patient had been intu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ng TY,Kirimli BI,Datta TD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient who suffered two episodes of torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia during general anaesthesia for abdominal surgery. The first occurred on suctioning of the tracheobronchial tree and the second while anaesthesia was light. Since ST segment elevation was in each case noted before the onset of ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mizutani K,Toyoda Y,Kubota H

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation and developed peroperative cardiac arrhythmias are presented. In one, the arrhythmias were refractory to treatment with anti-arrhythmic drug therapy until serum magnesium levels were restored to normal. The other patient had a low pre-operative serum magnesiu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ranasinghe DN,Mallett SV

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 247 patients who had general anaesthesia for dental procedures, the incidence of individual anxieties was noted using a questionnaire completed by the patient. The most common anxieties related to the period before transfer to the operating theatre, intra-operative awareness and postoperative pain. These...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McCleane GJ,Cooper R

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loop diuretics remain a fundamental pharmacological therapy to remove excess fluid and improve symptom control in acute decompensated heart failure. Several recent randomised controlled trials have examined the clinical benefit of continuous vs. bolus furosemide in acute decompensated heart failure, but have reported ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ng KT,Yap JLL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875) was a Boston dentist and doctor who carried our pioneering work in both dentistry and anaesthesia. He worked with William Morton before the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia, formed the world's first anaesthetic partnership with Morton but parted company with him and lat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Keep P

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac output can be measured accurately by transpulmonary arterial thermodilution using the PiCCO (Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany) system with a femoral artery catheter. We have investigated the accuracy of a new 50 cm 4 French gauge radial artery catheter and the ability to use the system with a shorter r...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Orme RM,Pigott DW,Mihm FG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2001 Report of the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths recommended that an echocardiogram should be performed on patients with aortic stenosis prior to anaesthesia. In this study we present the patient details, management and outcome of the 272 hip fracture patients with a previously undiagnose...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McBrien ME,Heyburn G,Stevenson M,McDonald S,Johnston NJ,Elliott JR,Beringer TR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year millions of children undergo surgery in the developing world with inadequate facilities, equipment and drugs. In many hospitals, anaesthesia is largely dependent on the availability of ketamine. Application of well-established clinical techniques, particularly for postoperative pain control, would relieve un...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hodges SC,Walker IA,Bösenberg AT

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly designed 4 FG double-lumen catheter with the second port located either 5 or 7 cm proximal to the tip was tested in five children undergoing open heart surgery. The catheter was inserted percutaneously and initially positioned in the superior vena cava, right atrium or inferior vena cava. During cardiopulmonar...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Fukutome T,Kohjiro M,Sese A,Ueno Y

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we measured the performance of medical students and anaesthetists using a new tracker needle during simulated sciatic nerve block on soft embalmed cadavers. The tracker needle incorporates a piezo element near its tip that generates an electrical signal in response to insonation. A circle, superimposed ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McKendrick M,Sadler A,Taylor A,Seeley J,Filipescu T,Mustafa A,McKendrick G,Halcrow J,Raju P,McLeod GA

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the ability of prehospital providers who had no previous training in intubation, to use an Airtraq laryngoscope to intubate a manikin model of a Cormack and Lehane grade III/IV view. Volunteers attending the Australian College of Ambulance Professionals conference, Adelaide, in November 2006 recei...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Woollard M,Mannion W,Lighton D,Johns I,O'meara P,Cotton C,Smyth M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised, controlled, crossover trial was designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of oral midazolam sedation for orthodontic extractions. Forty-six ASA physical status I children aged 10-16 years were recruited. Each child required two treatment sessions. Sedation with either oral midazolam 0.5 mg.kg-1 or ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wilson KE,Welbury RR,Girdler NM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The numbers of anaesthetists and of surgeons in the English Health Regions and in Wales as at September 1978, are given in whole-time equivalents per 100,000 of population. All Regional figures are presented as percentages of the national average so that comparisons between Regions can be made. Marked inter-Regional d...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Rees LT

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many new supraglottic airway devices have been recently introduced, their development motivated by the need for a single-use equivalent to the original re-usable laryngeal mask airway. We performed a randomised cross-over study in spontaneously breathing patients comparing the re-usable Laryngeal Mask Airway-Classic (...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Shafik MT,Bahlman BU,Hall JE,Ali MS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of subhypnotic doses of propofol on intrathecal morphine-induced pruritus was studied in a prospective, randomly allocated, double-blind controlled trial. Fifty-eight women undergoing elective lower segment Caesarean section for a singleton fetus received spinal anaesthesia with 2.5 ml hyperbaric 0.5% bupiv...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Warwick JP,Kearns CF,Scott WE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound-guided fascial plane blocks of the chest wall are increasingly popular alternatives to established techniques such as thoracic epidural or paravertebral blockade, as they are simple to perform and have an appealing safety profile. Many different techniques have been described, which can be broadly categoris...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Chin KJ,Versyck B,Pawa A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two similar groups of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting received either atracurium or vecuronium infusions for neuromuscular blockade. Both groups demonstrated a marked reduction in neuromuscular blocking requirements during hypothermic bypass at 30 C. The ratio of the dose rates at 30 C to that at 3...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Denny NM,Kneeshaw JD

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the repeated effect of sterilisation on light intensity in laryngoscopes from Penlon, Riester, Heine (two different blades), Medicon and Upsher. Light intensity was measured by a light meter using two methods. Measurements were performed before the decontamination procedure was carried out and subsequently ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bucx MJ,Veldman DJ,Beenhakker MM,Koster R

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively audited the bacterial contamination of re-usable analgesia infusion pumps. In a one-month period, 112 samples from the handset and keypads of our analgesia infusion pumps were cultured for bacterial contamination. Forty-five percent of handset swabs and 46% of keypad swabs grew bacteria; the commonest...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Rothwell M,Pearson D,Wright K,Barlow D

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bedside screening tests are routinely used to identify people at high risk of having a difficult airway, their clinical utility is unclear. We estimated the diagnostic accuracy of commonly used bedside examination tests for assessing the airway in adult patients without apparent anatomical abnormalities sched...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Roth D,Pace NL,Lee A,Hovhannisyan K,Warenits AM,Arrich J,Herkner H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiopulmonary resuscitation en route to hospital is performed by a single-handed operator in many British ambulances. In this study, three emergency ventilation devices, and mouth-to-mouth breathing, were compared for effectiveness in unintubated patients. Seventeen paramedics used each method on a Laerdal manikin i...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Greenslade GL

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review is presented of some of the problems that may arise in association with anaesthesia for epileptic patients. There is the possibility of precipitating anticonvulsant drug toxicity. Numerous drug interactions are possible with some anticonvulsant agents, such as phenobarbitone and phenytoin, which affect hepati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Evans DE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00