Environmental contamination during tracheal suction. A comparison of disposable conventional catheters with a multiple-use closed system device.

abstract：:Post-spinal hypotension remains a common and clinically-important problem during caesarean section, and accurate pre-operative prediction of this complication might enhance clinical management. We conducted a prospective, single-centre, observational study of heart rate variability in 102 patients undergoing elective ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bishop DG,Cairns C,Grobbelaar M,Rodseth RN

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From March 1975 until September 1978, seventy patients were referred for intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation for cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction or for the treatment of low cardiac output states following cardiopulmonary bypass. Sixty of these received adequate intra-aortic balloon pump ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Tobias MA,Challen PD,Franklin CB,Phillips G,Varley EM

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this bench-top study was to determine the subatmospheric tracheal pressures that could be generated by different sizes of suction catheters when placed into the different sizes of tracheal tubes encountered in adult anaesthetic practice. Five sizes of suction catheter were studied from 8 to 16 Fr and fi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Vanner R,Bick E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 3-year-period 72 patients with upper digestive tract haemorrhage due to peptic ulcer were transfused exclusively with isotonic sodium chloride and glucose solutions in equal quantities. The results are compared with 69 patients treated previously in whom conventional blood transfusion regimes had been used. Tra...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Alexiu O,Mircea N,Balaban M,Furtunescu B

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous lipid emulsion is established therapy for bupivacaine induced cardiotoxicity. The benefit of combined hypertonic saline and lipid treatment is unexplored. In this experiment, sedated rabbits were resuscitated from bupivacaine-induced asystole with intravenous lipid according to the Association of Anaesthet...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Cave G,Harvey M,Prince G,Lahner D,Desmet J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with dystrophia myotonica was given dantrolene sodium to try to provide muscle relaxation during a cholecystectomy. Dantrolene was used as it is accepted that the drug has a place in the control of spasticity and also causes muscle relaxation, whereas conventional muscle relaxants are unable to control myoto...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Phillips DC,Ellis FR,Exley KA,Ness MA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The statement that amniotic fluid embolism is the most dangerous and untreatable condition in obstetrics appears to be true. It must be suspected in any patient who collapses or bleeds excessively during labour or the immediate post-partum period. Attempts should be made to secure a definitive diagnosis in life by exa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Morgan M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the prevalence of novel acronyms in the titles of anaesthetic and related studies and the response of anaesthetists to them. We separately analysed trainee-led research projects in the UK supported by the Research and Audit Federation of Trainees (RAFT), and a 10-year cohort of papers identified using the ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Weale J,Soysa R,Yentis SM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old girl with Noonan's syndrome and a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presented for myelography and subsequently, laminectomy. The anaesthetic management of the patient is described and the potential problems of the facial, cardiovascular and skeletal abnormalities associated with the condition are discussed. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Campbell AM,Bousfield JD

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and eight healthy children who were to undergo minor elective surgery during halothane, nitrous oxide, oxygen anaesthesia were studied in a double blind investigation to evaluate the sedative and anticholinergic effects of two rectal premedications. Group I received diazepam 0.75 mg/kg rectally; Group II r...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Haagensen RE

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, randomised clinical study was undertaken to compare the effect of temperature on the incidence and severity of the pain experienced on injection of propofol. The number of patients who experienced pain and the severity of the pain were reduced significantly when propofol was administered at a temperatu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McCrirrick A,Hunter S

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted with the aims of comparing intravenous tramadol 1, 2 and 3 mg.kg(-1) with pethidine 0.5 mg.kg(-1) for prophylaxis of postanaesthetic shivering and to find a dose of tramadol that could provide the dual advantage of antishivering and analgesic effect in the postoperative period. The stud...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mohta M,Kumari N,Tyagi A,Sethi AK,Agarwal D,Singh M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case history is presented of a woman with known Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who, in late pregnancy, developed repeated supraventricular tachycardia, requiring direct current cardioversion. The anaesthetic problems and some pharmacological aspects of the management are discussed. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Klepper I

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most anaesthetists using target-controlled infusion systems will have observed that the calculated effect-site concentration at loss of consciousness is usually higher than the concentration at emergence. Inertia is the ability of biological systems to keep a functional state at rest or in activity and is an active pr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sepúlveda PO,Tapia LF,Monsalves S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol 2.5 mg/kg was compared with thiopentone 5 mg/kg in a randomised open study, as an induction agent in paediatric anaesthesia. One hundred and twenty children who were to undergo elective surgery were included in the study. Both propofol and thiopentone produced a rapid and smooth induction with a low incidence...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Valtonen M,Iisalo E,Kanto J,Tikkanen J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous movement following injection of propofol at induction was studied in 303 patients. Two hundred patients were Caucasians and 103 were Asians. In a pilot study carried out prior to the main study, 26% of the Asians moved at induction as compared with 6% of the Caucasians. The patients were studied in relatio...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Chan A,Nickoll E,Thornton C,Doré C,Newton DE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaesthetic management of patients undergoing tracheal resection for tracheal stenosis and the advantage of the maintenance of spontaneous respiration without intubation of the distal tracheal segment is discussed. The case reports of two such patients using a continuous intravenous infusion of Althesin with maint...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Vyas AB,Lyons SM,Dundee JW

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional capacity is an integral component of the pre-operative evaluation of the cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery. Stair climbing capacity has peri-operative prognostic importance. It may predict survival after lung resection and complications after major non-cardiac surgery. However, stair climbing cannot d...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Biccard BM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, rigid intubating fibrescope, the Upsherscope, was evaluated in clinical practice. Intubation was attempted in 200 adult patients and was successful in 191, with a median intubation time of 38 s, range 14-154 s. Intubation was straightforward in just under half of the patients. Difficulties were encountered in p...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Pearce AC,Shaw S,Macklin S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of intra-operative Doppler oesophageal probes provides continuous monitoring of cardiac output. This enables optimisation of intravascular volume and tissue perfusion in major abdominal surgery, which is thought to reduce postoperative complications and shorten hospital stay. Medline and EMBASE were searched u...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Abbas SM,Hill AG

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described of prolonged neuromuscular block in a patient who was given the muscle relaxant vecuronium followed by bolus injections of the antibiotics gentamycin and clindamycin. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Jedeikin R,Dolgunski E,Kaplan R,Hoffman S

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of propofol emulsion following the addition of various amounts of lignocaine solution was investigated. The investigations used were macroscopic and microscopic observations and electroacoustic determination of both droplet size and zeta potential. Evidence of emulsion instability was present following t...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Lilley EM,Isert PR,Carasso ML,Kennedy RA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suction booster is described which may be interposed between the endotracheal tube and the main suction system. This allows suction to be instantly ready throughout the intubation procedure, the rate of suction to be increased up to ten-fold, and all solid particles which can pass through the tracheal tube to be rem...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ruben H,Hansen E,MacNaughton FI

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the rate of injections interpreted as intravascular during imaging of lumbosacral transforaminal epidural injections, using fluoroscopy alone or with digital subtraction. We evaluated 732 injections performed on 348 patients: 8.1% (59/732) and 10.5% (77/732) of injections were interpreted as intravascu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Kim YH,Park HJ,Moon DE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing the calculated plasma concentration of propofol has been shown to increase choice reaction time and visual and auditory response times. We studied the relationship of reaction to a vibrating handset as the effect-site target-controlled propofol concentration was incrementally increased in 20 patients during...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Anderson KJ,Allam S,Chapman R,Kenny GN

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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：:A clinical trial was performed to compare the effects of intramuscular dihydrocodeine with caudal bupivacaine on postoperative pain and recovery in 181 children who had undergone either circumcision, inguinal herniotomy or orchidopexy performed under general anaesthesia. Linear analogues were used in assess level of c...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bramwell RG,Bullen C,Radford P

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty children in the age-group 1.75-10 years, admitted for cure of strabismus, were anaesthetised with intramuscular ketamine. Half the patients, at random, were given intravenous atropine, while anaesthetised, 5 minutes before operative interference. ECG recording of Lead 2 showed an oculacardiac dysthythmic respons...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Apivor D,Ravi PK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal data have demonstrated increased block duration after local anaesthetic injections in diabetic rat models. Whether the same is true in humans is currently undefined. We, therefore, undertook this prospective cohort study to test the hypothesis that type-2 diabetic patients suffering from diabetic peripheral neu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Baeriswyl M,Taffé P,Kirkham KR,Bathory I,Rancati V,Crevoisier X,Cherix S,Albrecht E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00