Pulse oximetry. An assessment in anaesthetised dental patients.

abstract：:This study compares retrospectively the postoperative analgesia provided via intravenous opioids with continuous regional techniques (interpleural and epidural infusions) administered as a clinical routine by an anaesthesia-based Acute Pain Service. In 2630 patients no severe complications resulting in morbidity or mo...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Schug SA,Fry RA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a large anterior mediastinal mass with minimal respiratory symptoms presented for a diagnostic biopsy of the mass. A pre-operative thoracic computed tomographic scan demonstrated narrowing of the distal trachea, and right and left main stem bronchi. An awake intubation was done. Thiopentone and muscle r...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Goh MH,Liu XY,Goh YS

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery from a critical illness can be delayed by persistent anxiety and depression. To identify such patients, a new self-report questionnaire (the Depression, Anxiety and Stress scale, DASS) was used alongside an established instrument (the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, HADS) in those who had spent a minim...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sukantarat KT,Williamson RC,Brett SJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory study of a widely available heat and moisture exchanger marketed for paediatric use was undertaken. The deadspace, measured by volume displacement, was 12 ml, similar to that of a standard catheter mount for paediatric use. Pressure drop across the device was measured at several different flows in five sa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wilkinson KA,Cranston A,Hatch DJ,Fletcher ME

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:We describe the use of a questionnaire to define the difficulties in providing anaesthesia in Uganda. The results show that 23% of anaesthetists have the facilities to deliver safe anaesthesia to an adult, 13% to deliver safe anaesthesia to a child and 6% to deliver safe anaesthesia for a Caesarean section. The questi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hodges SC,Mijumbi C,Okello M,McCormick BA,Walker IA,Wilson IH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The various ways in which an anaesthetist may come into contact with the process of the criminal and civil law have been discussed. Some comparisons have been made between the English Law and that of other countries. The need for vigilance by professional bodies representing medical practitioners in monitoring and mak...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Havard JD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreases in the hours worked by trainee anaesthetists are being brought about by both the New Deal for Trainees and the European Working Time Directive. Anticipated improvements in health and safety achieved by a decrease in hours will be at the expense of training time if the amount of night-time work remains consta...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sim DJ,Wrigley SR,Harris S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to determine whether general anaesthesia plus retrobulbar block would be a better anaesthetic technique than general anaesthesia alone in retinal detachment surgery. Twenty-eight patients were allocated randomly to either general anaesthesia with retrobulbar block or general anaesthesia alone. The anaes...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Chung F,Westerling D,Chisholm LD,Squires GW

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles of fluidic technology are outlined and applied in the description of a fluidic controlled ventilator. The device is compact, easy to operate and practically fail-safe since it has no moving parts. There is a sensor which prevents any increase in airway pressure above the preset level. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Klain M,Smith RB

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood concentrations of disoprofol (Diprivan) after single intravenous doses of 1, 2 or 3 mg/kg have been examined in a subpopulation from previously reported clinical studies. The linear relationship between sleep time and dose could be explained by the linearity of the pharmacokinetics at these doses. After a si...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Adam HK,Kay B,Douglas EJ

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major shoulder surgery can be extremely painful. Interscalene brachial plexus catheters provide excellent postoperative analgesia but are technically difficult to place. A new insulated Tuohy needle system for plexus catheterisation is now available. This prospective study examined its ease of use and the postoperativ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Denny NM,Barber N,Sildown DJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harold King was an analytical chemist of distinction, who worked with Sir Henry Dale and his colleagues in the Medical Research Institute, later the Medical Research Council. He helped to quash the theory that the anaesthetic action of ether was attributable to its impurities. Interest in alkaloids led to the elucidat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Gray TC

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:We investigated modifications to the reservoir tube usually used in drawover anaesthetic breathing systems as a method of improving its efficiency and performance. The resulting oxygen concentration was recorded at different oxygen flow rates whilst an artificial lung was being ventilated over a range of minute volume...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Eales M,Rowe P,Tully R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain on injection of propofol is a common problem, the cause of which remains unknown. The chemical properties and preparation of propofol, proposed mechanisms for the cause of the pain and clinical strategies to prevent pain on injection of propofol are reviewed in the hope of shedding some light on the subject. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Tan CH,Onsiong MK

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:The platelet-mapping assay of the thromboelastograph was used to measure platelet aggregation and to examine the effect of cardiopulmonary bypass on multiple platelet receptors and the role of altered receptor activity in postoperative bleeding. The percentage platelet aggregation for collagen, adenosine diphosphate a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Weitzel NS,Weitzel LB,Epperson LE,Karimpour-Ford A,Tran ZV,Seres T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several local anaesthetic techniques are described for nasal analgesia during awake intubation, there has been little attempt to evaluate their effectiveness. We examined pain scores associated with nasal intubation in a randomised cross-over study of 25 volunteers. Local anaesthesia consisted of topical aero...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Cara DM,Norris AM,Neale LJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the in vitro longevity of a conventional soda lime carbon dioxide absorbent and an absorbent free from strong alkali (Amsorb). Although the times taken to breakthrough of carbon dioxide (> 0.5%) within an in vitro low flow breathing system were shorter with the alkali-free absorbent, we found that the size a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bedi A,Gallagher AC,Fee JP,Murray JM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemodynamic effects of propofol (2 mg/kg), etomidate (0.2 mg/kg) and thiopentone (4 mg/kg) were studied in 30 ASA 1 and 2 patients in whom anaesthesia had been induced with midazolam 0.1 mg/kg, fentanyl 5 micrograms/kg, vecuronium 0.1 mg/kg and atropine 10 micrograms/kg, and maintained with nitrous oxide in oxyge...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Gauss A,Heinrich H,Wilder-Smith OH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol and thiopentone were compared as anaesthetic agents for electroconvulsive therapy in 31 patients on four occasions in a repeated measure crossover study. Discomfort on injection was significantly more common with propofol (51.6% of anaesthetics) compared to thiopentone (1.6% of anaesthetics). The duration of ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Boey WK,Lai FO

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All senior house officer posts in the Yorkshire Deanery have been assessed against five parameters. Posts in anaesthesia were among the best with excellent consultant support, good exposure to clinical practice and well-structured education and training. Anaesthetic posts were almost unique in satisfying the 'New Deal...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bunch GA,Bahrami J,Macdonald R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed adequacy of ventilation in 20 critically ill patients with multiple organ failure using a Pneupac Ventipac portable ventilator and the effects on patients' haemodynamic stability. Baseline data were recorded over 15 min for a range of respiratory, haemodynamic and oxygen transport variables during ventilat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McCluskey A,Gwinnutt CL,Hardy L,Haslett R,Bowles B,Kishen R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of increasing concentrations of nitrous oxide 30, 50 and 70% on the hepatic circulation and hepatic oxygen consumption were investigated in seven normocapnic greyhounds. Hepatic arterial and portal venous blood flows were measured continuously using electromagnetic flow probes, and mean arterial pressure a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Thomson IA,Hughes RL,Fitch W,Campbell D

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hourly urine volume and urine concentration of seven patients undergoing major abdominal surgery were measured during the operative and postoperative periods. From these, the hourly osmolar output was calculated. The results show that the osmolar output, 700 mOsm/day, in the peri-operative period is less than that...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Zideman DA,Dudley HA,Bevan DR

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-two children were randomly allocated to receive, during inhalational anaesthesia with isoflurane and nitrous oxide, either 1.0 microg x kg(-1) remifentanil (n = 33) or saline (n = 29) just before the tunnelling phase of ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion, in a double-blind study. The remifentanil group showed ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Chambers N,Lopez T,Thomas J,James MF

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of patients requiring tracheal intubation rose dramatically in March and April 2020 with the COVID-19 outbreak. Our thoracic surgery department has seen an increased incidence of severe pneumomediastinum referred for surgical opinion in intubated patients with COVID-19 pneumonitis. Here we present a series ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wali A,Rizzo V,Bille A,Routledge T,Chambers AJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of arterial blood pressure to an increase in intrathoracic pressure has been shown to be predictive of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. We devised a new method, which we termed the arterial pressure ratio. We defined arterial pressure ratio as the ratio of systolic blood pressure of the final beat duri...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Uehara H,Takenaka I,Aoyama K,Kadoya T,Sata T,Shigematsu A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve tissue protein S-100 and neurone-specific enolase levels in serum were studied in 10 patients before, during and for 2 days after elective carotid endarterectomy performed under general anaesthesia and using a Javid Shunt. In six patients, simultaneous cerebrospinal fluid samples were also obtained. Serum nerve ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Gao F,Harris DN,Sapsed-Byrne S,Standfield NJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00