The addition of dexamethasone to dolasetron or haloperidol for treatment of established postoperative nausea and vomiting.

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：:Despite the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, elective paediatric surgery must continue safely through the first, second and subsequent waves of disease. This study presents outcome data from a children's hospital in north-west England, the region with the highest prevalence of COVID-19 in England....

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Okonkwo INC,Howie A,Parry C,Shelton CL,Cobley S,Craig R,Permall N,El-Sheikha SH,Herbert N,Arnold P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of total intravenous anaesthesia for neurosurgery and neuroradiology is described using a continuous infusion of alphaxalone/alphadolone (Althesin) with analgesics and muscle relaxants. It has been used successfully on 272 occasions in 243 patients. The reasons for using such a technique and the advantages a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Dallas SH

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some short procedures require deep neuromuscular blockade, which needs to be reversed at the end of the procedure. Forty-four patients undergoing elective laryngeal micro-surgery were randomly allocated into two groups: rocuronium 0.45 mg.kg-1 with neostigmine (50 μg.kg-1 with glycopyrrolate 10 μg.kg-1 ) reversal (mod...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Choi ES,Oh AY,Koo BW,Hwang JW,Han JW,Seo KS,Ahn SH,Jeong WJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients undergoing paravertebral blocks for chronically painful conditions of the chest wall were thermographically imaged so that the extent of cutaneous vasodilatation and hence sympathetic block could be correlated with the distribution of the somatic block. All blocks were performed by a single experienced op...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Cheema SP,Ilsley D,Richardson J,Sabanathan S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are numerous possible techniques for delivering local anaesthetic through peripheral nerve catheters. These include continuous infusions, patient-controlled boluses and programmed intermittent boluses. The optimal delivery regimen of local anaesthetic is yet to be conclusively established. In this review, we ide...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Law WZW,Sara RA,Cameron AJD,Lightfoot NJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 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

abstract：:Two cases of severe accidental hypothermia (core temperature less than 28 degrees C) rewarmed employing the Clinitron system are described. The physiological changes during hypothermia and rewarming are discussed and the current concepts of rewarming (active external versus internal) outlined. It is suggested that sev...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Miles JM,Thompson GR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old man with hypopharyngeal stenosis following curative chemoradiotherapy for a tongue base tumour presented three years later for an attempt at pharyngeal dilatation. The first attempt 6 months previously was abandoned when awake fibreoptic intubation failed due to partial airway obstruction and desaturatio...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Paton L,Gupta S,Blacoe D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients undergoing elective procedures on the larynx and pharynx were anaesthetised using a propofol infusion and a bolus of vecuronium. High frequency jet ventilation was employed via a 7 French gauge catheter, with a second catheter being used to measure expired carbon dioxide levels. The Bullard laryngoscop...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mendel P,Bristow A

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In resource-constrained settings, where inequalities in access to and quality of surgical care results in excess mortality, peri-operative care registries are uncommon. A south-south collaboration supported the implementation of a context specific, clinician-led, multicentre real-time peri-operative registry in Ethiop...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Network for Peri-operative Critical care (N4PCc)*.

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of severe sand aspiration in association with near-drowning, which led to respiratory failure secondary to the acute respiratory distress syndrome, necessitating mechanical ventilation, repeated therapeutic bronchoscopic lavage, and a stay in the intensive care unit that exceeded one month. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Appelboam R,Williams MP,Duffy MR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volatile anaesthetic agents potentiate neuromuscular blocking agents and retard their rate of reversal. We hypothesised that there was a difference in the rate of reversal of rocuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade based on the selection of inhalation agent. Thirty-eight patients undergoing elective surgical procedu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sutcliffe DG,Murphy CM,Maslow A,Uppington J,Shorten GD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaesthetists have traditionally focused on technological and pharmacological advances when considering the provision of anaesthetic care. Anaesthetists are expected to be able to communicate effectively with peers, patients, their families and others in the medical community; however, few details are provided regardi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Cyna AM,Andrew MI,Tan SG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic oxytocin administration at the third stage of labour reduces blood loss and the need for additional uterotonic drugs. Obesity is known to be associated with an increased risk of uterine atony and postpartum haemorrhage. It is unknown whether women with obesity require higher doses of oxytocin in order to ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Peska E,Balki M,Maxwell C,Ye XY,Downey K,Carvalho JCA

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A ketamine, midazolam and vecuronium infusion was used for total intravenous anesthesia in a patient with Down's syndrome, a ventricular septal defect and pulmonary hypertension. A mixture of ketamine 200 mg, midazolam 5 mg and vecuronium 12 mg in 50 ml of normal saline was infused at 0.5 ml/kg/hour. This simple techn...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Riley DP,McBride LJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the Nottingham Physiology Simulator, we investigated the effects on pre-oxygenation and apnoea during rapid sequence induction of labour, obesity, sepsis, pre-eclampsia, maternal haemorrhage and multiple pregnancy in term pregnancy. Pre-oxygenation with 100% oxygen was followed by simulated rapid sequence induct...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McClelland SH,Bogod DG,Hardman JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the administration of anaesthesia to a patient with Angelman syndrome, which is characterised by an abnormality of chromosome 15, where a subunit of the GABA receptor is coded. This has far-reaching anaesthetic implications as many drugs used in anaesthesia are thought to act via GABA receptors. Our patien...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ramanathan KR,Muthuswamy D,Jenkins BJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five women were investigated on the day after lower abdominal surgery in a single-blind non-cross-over trial to assess and compare the haemodynamic effects of intravenous injections of buprenorphine 0.3 mg and morphine 7.5 mg. Arterial blood pressure was measured by sphygmomanometry and cardiac output by thorac...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Scott DH,Arthur GR,Scott DB

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cumulative dose followed by an infusion was used to determine the dose response to suxamethonium in a patient with diagnosed myasthenia gravis who was in true remission (asymptomatic while receiving no therapy). The ED50 and ED90 values for suxamethonium were 0.08 mg/kg and 0.20 mg/kg, and an infusion rate of 3.2 mg...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Abel M,Eisenkraft JB,Patel N

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-four patients received general anaesthesia for Caesarean section. Seven percent of the elective group and 28% of the emergency patients reported dreaming or recall of voices during the procedure (p less than 0.05) at postoperative interview. One patient from each group reported feeling pain or suffocation. All...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bogod DG,Orton JK,Yau HM,Oh TE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised, double-blind comparison of the efficacy, duration of action and side effects of two analgesic regimens following elective epidural Caesarean section is described. Patients received epidural diamorphine 3 mg or intramuscular morphine 10 mg in the immediate postoperative period. Time to next analgesia was ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Stevens JD,Braithwaite P,Corke CF,Madej TH,Wheatley RG

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:New anaesthetic agents are continually being developed in an effort to prepare the ideal agent. Isoflurane is the first choice of many anaesthetists, although it clearly falls short of the ideal on a number of counts. The need and place for any new agent depends on comparing the properties of a theoretically ideal age...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Jones RM,Ward PM

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The short-term objective of the DHSS of a 1:1 consultant: junior ratio by 1988 is compatible with current trends in consultant expansion and implies no reduction in registrars before then. The target of doubling the number of consultants in 15 years cannot be met in anaesthesia without a fairly sharp, and relatively s...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Vickers MD

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capnography (ETCO2 ) is routinely used as a non-invasive estimate of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2 ) levels in order to modify ventilatory settings, whereby it is assumed that there is a positive gap between PaCO2 and ETCO2 of approximately 0.5 kPa. However, negative values (ETCO2 > PaCO2 ) can be observed. We retros...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Onodi C,Bühler PK,Thomas J,Schmitz A,Weiss M

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Anxiety before induction of anaesthesia was studied in 100 patients who were allocated randomly to one of two groups. Patients in one group were anaesthetised in an anaesthetic room and those in the other group were anaesthetised inside the operating theatre. Both subjective and objective induces of anxiety were used ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Soni JC,Thomas DA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines recommend restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategies. We conducted an observational study to examine whether the rate of peri-operative red blood cell transfusion in the USA had declined during the period from 01 January 2011 to 31 December 2016. We included 4,273,168 patients from all surgical subsp...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Nordestgaard AT,Rasmussen LS,Sillesen M,Steinmetz J,Eid AI,Meier K,Kaafarani HMA,Velmahos GC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia were studied on the plasma concentration and metabolism of a continuous infusion of etomidate in six patients. Continuous etomidate infusions (20 micrograms/kg/minute) with analgesic cover may be a suitable anaesthetic for cardiac surgery. This rate of infusion pro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Oduro A,Tomlinson AA,Voice A,Davies GK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00