Upper limb sympathetic blockade following intercostal nerve blocks.

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：:National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death guidelines for urgent surgery recommend a fully staffed emergency operating theatre and restriction of 'after-midnight' operating to immediate life-, limb- or organ-threatening conditions. Audit performed in our institution demonstrated significant decreases...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Cosgrove JF,Gaughan M,Snowden CP,Lees T

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:The use of a low-power nerve stimulator to aid nerve location during the performance of sciatic nerve block was compared with a conventional anatomically based technique. The success rate, both in terms of the production of an effective block and the duration of postoperative analgesia, was significantly higher in the...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Smith BE,Allison A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the McGrath® Series 5 videolaryngoscope with the Macintosh laryngoscope in a simulated difficult airway, using manual in-line stabilisation in 88 anaesthestised patients of ASA physical status 1-2. The primary outcome was laryngoscopic view. Secondary outcomes included rates of successful tracheal intubati...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Taylor AM,Peck M,Launcelott S,Hung OR,Law JA,MacQuarrie K,McKeen D,George RB,Ngan J

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated if adding low-dose ketamine to fentanyl could offer a haemodynamically stable drug combination with little respiratory side-effects. Eight healthy, consenting male volunteers received in a random, cross-over and double-blind fashion both fentanyl 2 micrograms.kg-1 + ketamine 0.25 mg.kg-1 and fenta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mildh L,Taittonen M,Leino K,Kirvelä O

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we compared urinary bladder and oesophageal temperatures with the core temperature obtained from a pulmonary artery catheter in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation. The bladder temperature was a closer approximation to pulmonary artery temperature in this group of patients than the oesop...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Russell SH,Freeman JW

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is concern that the European Working Time Directive 2009 has led to reduced time available for training, and this study examined if this has been the case. For two identical six-month periods in 1999 (pre-Directive) and 2009 (post-Directive), weekly data were collected on the total number of sessions attended by...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Paul RG,Bunker N,Fauvel NJ,Cox M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34-year-old female patient developed methaemoglobinaemia following a femoral nerve block using prilocaine. The concentrations of methaemoglobin in the blood of the next eight patients receiving this block were assayed, and found to be significantly increased above baseline concentrations, but very significantly less...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bellamy MC,Hopkins PM,Halsall PJ,Ellis FR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, randomised study of 60 patients who received intravenous increments of nalbuphine 3 mg or pethidine 15 mg by patient-controlled analgesia during the first stage of labour, was carried out. Pain intensity, sedation, uterine contractions, maternal cardioventilatory variables and fetal heart rate were rec...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Frank M,McAteer EJ,Cattermole R,Loughnan B,Stafford LB,Hitchcock AM

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Diprifusor' target controlled infusion system has been developed as a standardised infusion system for the administration of propofol by target controlled infusion. A preferred set of pharmacokinetic parameters for propofol was selected using computer simulation of a known infusion scheme with pharmacokinetic par...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Glen JB

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old man presenting for aortic reconstructive surgery showed severe, previously undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnoea during overnight oximetry monitoring before operation. Postoperatively, in the first 4 hours following extubation, he suffered 238 episodes of respiratory obstruction. These events were associa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Reeder MK,Goldman MD,Loh L,Muir AD,Casey KR,Gitlin DA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a sedative infusion of propofol on haemodynamics and oxygen transport were examined in critically ill adult patients. Ten patients receiving mechanical ventilation for treatment of septic shock and respiratory failure were given a decreasing rate propofol infusion designed to achieve and maintain a stab...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Nimmo GR,Mackenzie SJ,Grant IS

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnanolone emulsion, a new steroid anaesthetic agent, was administered intravenously as bolus doses to six young healthy male volunteers in a preliminary pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study. The plasma concentration-time curves fitted a two-compartment model. The elimination half-life was between 0.9 and 1.4 h...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Carl P,Høgskilde S,Nielsen JW,Sørensen MB,Lindholm M,Karlen B,Bäckstrøm T

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the findings of a study on exposure of operating room staff to sevoflurane, halothane and nitrous oxide during induction and maintenance of anaesthesia in children. Concentrations of anaesthetic agents in the operating theatre were measured directly by highly sensitive, photoacoustic infrared spectrometer du...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hoerauf K,Funk W,Harth M,Hobbhahn J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude delivery rate is used to calculate requirements for consultant anaesthetic sessions in the UK, but this calculation is arbitrary and ignores differences in case-mix between units. The term 'epidural rate' is commonly used to indicate regional anaesthetic activity but has never been defined. We challenge both the...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Yentis SM,Robinson PN

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of cetrimide toxicity, probably the first of its kind to be recorded, is reported. It occurred after accidental intravenous injection in an infant and the management is discussed. Cardiac arrest, muscle paralysis, haemolysis and other complications were successfully treated. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Gode GR,Jayalakshmi TS,Kalla GN

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methods have been developed to confirm proper intubation of the trachea. This blind, randomised study evaluates some of these quantitatively and qualitatively. Forty patients had both their trachea and oesophagus intubated. A procedure that included auscultation of the upper abdomen and lungs was 100% reliable...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Andersen KH,Hald A

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six healthy patients, ASA 1, aged 16-41 years, scheduled for elective plastic surgery were studied to determine if thoracocervical or lumbar epidural blocks affected the lag time of the pulse oximeter response. Patients were allocated to receive thoracocervical epidural block (n = 20) (group 1) (lignocaine 1%) ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Xue FS,Liao X,Tong SY,Liu QH,An G,Luo LK

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaesthesia for abdominal surgery in a patient with carcinoid syndrome is reported. Pre-operative symptomatic improvement was obtained using cyproheptadine hydrochloride. Handling of the tumour and liver metastases, during surgery, produced signs of excess serotonin secretion which responded to intravenous methotrimep...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mason RA,Steane PA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaesthetic management of patients in haemorrhagic shock is described. The principles are those of initial resuscitation with electrolyte solutions and alleviation of metabolic acidosis, combined with early induction of anaesthesia to permit control of bleeding as soon as possible. The anaesthetic technique depend...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McGown RG

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the much shorter thawing times, the use of microwave devices for heating units of fresh frozen plasma is still being discussed. Concerns about general and localised overheating are the main arguments against the use of microwave devices. We evaluated the warming of fresh frozen plasma using the recently in...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hirsch J,Bach R,Menzebach A,Welters ID,Dietrich GV,Hempelmann G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred adult patients who required mechanical ventilation after open heart surgery for coronary revascularisation were studied. All received a standard premedication and a high dose opioid anaesthetic. On arrival in the intensive care unit they were allocated randomly to receive either propofol or midazolam to ma...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McMurray TJ,Collier PS,Carson IW,Lyons SM,Elliott P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly have the ethical and legal equivalence of younger adults, yet are treated differently by society. Numerous recent reports have exposed poor inpatient care resulting in part from institutional ageism, which has moral and legal implications for healthcare providers. Morally, there is an argument for positive...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： White SM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described in which localising neurological signs developed on the first day following general anaesthesia for insertion of a silastic implant over a frontal fracture. Despite prompt appropriate investigation seven weeks elapsed before the correct diagnosis was made. Aspects of the management of patients who ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Millar SW,Hensher R

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven per cent of surgical patients receiving undiluted diazepam experienced pain on injection while 6-16%, depending on the dose, manifested evidence of clinical thrombophlebitis. This was improved when diazepam, 10 mg, was diluted to 20-40 ml with intravenous solution. In contrast, lorazepam appeared to have ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Graham CW,Pagano RR,Conner JT

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of halothane and pancuronium is demonstrated in the dog tibialis anterior-sciatic nerve preparation. The results show a dose related effect of halothane on the recovery index and the 50% recovery times. These results are compared to other reports and possible mechanisms are discussed. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Knight CL,Barnes PK,Feldman SA

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a group of conditions which is reaching epidemic proportions. It is caused by a virus new to man, with an as yet poorly understood natural history, ominous prognosis and no known cure. Anaesthetists should be aware of the implications of dealing with increasing numbers...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Lee KG,Soni N

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three patients were given midazolam 0.1 mg.kg-1 by intramuscular injection as premedication before general anaesthesia with alfentanil-nitrous oxide. During anaesthesia patients were presented (through headphones) with either statements about common facts of some years ago (group A) (n = 43) or new verbal assoc...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： De Roode A,Jelicic M,Bonke B,Bovill JG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a mother with unanticipated profound thrombocytopenia who received a continuous epidural anaesthetic for labour. No neurological sequelae or excessive bleeding occurred. It is clear, after a review of the literature, that more information is needed to define the lower limits of platelet count at...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hew-Wing P,Rolbin SH,Hew E,Amato D

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00