A comparative study of preload-adjusted maximal and peak power: assessment of ventricular performance in clinical practice.

abstract：:The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is due to come into force in April 2007. The Act provides a protective statutory framework for decision-making on behalf of incompetent adults, representing, in the main, a codification of the common law that had already developed in this area. For example, 'advance decisions' are now give...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： White SM,Baldwin TJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed an automatic detector system for noninvasive monitoring of irrigating fluid absorption during transurethral resection of the prostate. Ethanol, which is used as a tracer for the fluid, is measured in the expired breath of the patient. The breath ethanol monitor can be used both in the awake patient an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hahn RG,Larsson H,Ribbe T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of anticholinergic premedication with 1.0 mg atropine, 0.5 mg hyoscine and 0.2 mg glycopyrronium on volume and pH of gastric contents were studied and compared with a group receiving no anticholinergic premedication. The antisialogogue effects were also compared. Though the groups receiving atropine and gl...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mirakhur RK,Reid J,Elliott J

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method to distinguish oesophageal from tracheal intubation using an end-tidal carbon dioxide detector was evaluated. In a prospective study on 50 healthy adult patients, the end-tidal carbon dioxide detector was reliably used to detect initial oesophageal intubation in 22 cases, and then to confirm tracheal intu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： O'Flaherty D,Adams AP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised study was carried out in 60 anaesthetised patients with no evidence of airway difficulties, to compare the Williams Airway Intubator and the Ovassapian Fibreoptic Intubating Airway for bronchoscopic view and ease of railroading a tracheal tube during fibreoptic orotracheal intubation. The Williams Airway ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Greenland KB,Lam MC,Irwin MG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study was undertaken to assess the analgesic efficacy of diclofenac. Following major abdominal surgery and 12 hours later, patients received either placebo or diclofenac 75 mg intramuscularly and their cumulative morphine requirements administered by a patient-controlled s...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hodsman NB,Burns J,Blyth A,Kenny GN,McArdle CS,Rotman H

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Enteral tube feeding is widely used in intensive care units, high dependency units and general wards. In some patients, an adequate intake is not maintained because patients cannot tolerate the tube. Insertion of an enteral feeding tube via a pharyngostomy is simple and potentially more easily tolerated. We describe o...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Jones TM,Bodenham AR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vecuronium 0.1 mg/kg, pancuronium 0.1 mg/kg, vecuronium 0.075 mg/kg + pancuronium 0.025 mg/kg, vecuronium + pancuronium 0.05 mg/kg each and vecuronium 0.025 mg/kg + pancuronium 0.075 mg/kg were compared with respect to time taken to onset of effect, duration of clinical relaxation and intubation conditions in five gro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Pandit SK,Ferres CJ,Gibson FM,Mirakhur RK

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and origin of contamination of the vocal cords in 53 trauma patients was studied when tracheal intubation was performed before hospital admission. Eighteen patients (34%) had gross contamination which was blood in 15 patients and gastric contents in three patients. This has implications for prehospital a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Lockey DJ,Coats T,Parr MJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of childbirth, including epidural anaesthesia for Caesarean section is described in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease. The reasons for the choice of epidural anaesthesia are explained and the anaesthetic significance of the disease is discussed. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Matthews AJ,Halshaw J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this double-blind study was to investigate the incidence of transient neurological symptoms after the use of isobaric lidocaine and isobaric prilocaine for spinal anaesthesia. Seventy patients (ASA 1-2, age between 18 and 70 years) were randomly assigned to two groups of 35 patients each, to receive eit...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： de Weert K,Traksel M,Gielen M,Slappendel R,Weber E,Dirksen R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological monitoring of selected neural pathways of the brain, brainstem, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system has become mandatory in some surgery of the nervous system where preventable neural injury can occur. Evoked potentials are relatively simple methods of testing the integrity of various aspect...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Kumar A,Bhattacharya A,Makhija N

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to measure anxiety levels in 91 partners of women undergoing elective Caesarean section under regional anaesthesia and to outline potential relieving factors. Twenty-eight percent of partners were pathologically anxious. There was a positive association between anxiety and prior attendance at t...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Taylor IR,Bullough AS,van Hamel JC,Campbell DN

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed conditions for insertion of a laryngeal mask airway in 90 unpremedicated adult patients who received either thiopentone 5 mg.kg-1 preceded by 40 mg of topical lignocaine spray to the posterior pharyngeal wall or propofol 2.5 mg.kg-1 alone in a randomised, single-blinded trial. All patients received fentany...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Seavell CR,Cook TM,Cox CM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed, for the first time, genotoxicity (i.e. sister chromatid exchanges and micronuclei) in anaesthetists exposed to a single volatile anaesthetic (sevoflurane) without nitrous oxide. The anaesthetists were exposed to an 8-h time-weighted average of 0.2 parts per million sevoflurane. Internists served as n...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wiesner G,Schiewe-Langgartner F,Lindner R,Gruber M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined spinal-epidural (CSE) for analgesia in labour is widely used as a method of providing pain relief while minimising motor blockade. Aiming to further reduce the associated motor weakness, we investigated the use of alfentanil alone as the initial intrathecal injection in a double-blind study. Thirty women were...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hughes DA,Hill DA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients, scheduled for Caesarean section were randomly allocated to receive by the epidural route in a double-blind fashion one of the following patient-controlled analgesia mixtures for the relief of postoperative pain: sufentanil 2 micrograms.ml-1 in 0.9% sodium chloride, sufentanil 2 micrograms.ml-1 + adrena...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Vercauteren MP,Vandeput DM,Meert TF,Adriaensen HA

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular sieves are used in industry to 'scrub' industrial gases. We examined, during simulated low-flow closed system anaesthesia, (1) the carbon dioxide adsorbing potential of molecular sieves and (2) the reactivity of the sieves compared to soda lime using sevoflurane as an indicator. A low-flow anaesthetic system...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Fee JP,Murray JM,Luney SR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old apparently healthy, normotensive woman who presented for elective cholecystectomy experienced intra-operative hypertension and tachycardia, which were controlled by propranolol. Oesophageal temperature increased, there was a metabolic and respiratory acidosis with hypoxaemia, and malignant hyperthermia w...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Crowley KJ,Cunningham AJ,Conroy B,O'Connell PR,Collins PG

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peri-operative risk estimation has traditionally focused on assessing the likelihood of postoperative morbidity and mortality using pre-operative functional assessment. Although this strategy is currently recommended by most major society guidelines, contemporary evidence suggests that cardiac biomarker measurement ha...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ruzycki SM,Prystajecky M,Driedger MR,Kachra R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, randomised study was conducted to examine the efficacy of a single bolus dose of esmolol in treating surgically-induced tachycardia. Anaesthetic technique was identical in all patients, and consisted of premedication with midazolam and glycopyrronium, induction with thiopentone followed by suxamethoniu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Whirley-Diaz J,Gold MI,Helfman SM,deLisser EA

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve volunteers known to have airways that responded adversely to 2.0 MAC desflurane were recruited. Each volunteer inhaled three single breaths of each of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 MAC of sevoflurane, halothane, isoflurane, desflurane and balance air, with breaths of air between, whilst breathing nasally through a face mask...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wilkes AR,Raj N,Hall JE

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique of general anaesthesia is described which has been used for trans-bronchial lung biopsy in 100 patients. Sixty-seven were day cases. An early pneumothorax was detected in four patients, but only one needed tube drainage. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Barr AM,Kurer FL

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the current literature on the management of hypotension during subarachnoid block in the elderly. Hypotension results from blockade of the sympathetic nervous system, which causes decreases in both systemic vascular resistance and cardiac output. Abolition of normal cardiovascular reflexes is also...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Critchley LA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key figure in the development of anaesthesia in Russia was the surgeon Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881). He experimented with ether and chloroform and organised the general introduction of anaesthesia in Russia for patients undergoing surgery. He was the first to perform systematic research into anaesthesia-rel...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hendriks IF,Bovill JG,Boer F,Houwaart ES,Hogendoorn PC

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vecuronium was administered to patients in doses of 100, 150, 200 and 250 micrograms/kg and the duration of action recorded by noting the time to recovery of the first twitch in a train-of-four to 10% of the control twitch. The recovery times ranged from a mean of 28.4 minutes (100 micrograms/kg) to 72.4 minutes (250 ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Feldman SA,Liban JB

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intentional normovolaemic haemodilution is a blood saving technique which can be performed when major blood loss is expected. Severe coronary artery disease and particularly left main stenosis are considered a contraindication for intentional normovolaemic haemodilution. The effects and complications of limited intent...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Herregods L,Foubert L,Moerman A,François K,Rolly G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a patient who ingested a potentially fatal dose of phenylbutazone. Her clinical condition deteriorated despite adequate supportive therapy and the use of charcoal haemoperfusion proved life-saving. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Strong JE,Wilson J,Douglas JF,Coppel DL

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who sustained fractures of the scapula and proximal humeral head as a result of cardioversion during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is postulated that the fractures were the result of tetanic muscular contractions involving the proximal humeral heads and the shoulder girdles. This appears to be ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Kam AC,Kam PC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00