The potencies of edrophonium and neostigmine as antagonists of pancuronium.

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：:The measurement of extravascular lung water is a relatively new technology which has not yet been well validated as a clinically useful tool. We studied its utility in patients undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy as they frequently suffer reperfusion lung injury and associated oedematous lungs. Such patients are there...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Butchart AG,Zochios V,Villar SS,Jones NL,Curry S,Agrawal B,Jenkins DP,Klein AA

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Both the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the UK NAP4 project recommend that an unspecified pre-operative airway assessment be made. However, the choice of assessment is ultimately at the discretion of the individual anaesthesiologist. We retrieved a cohort of 188 064 cases from the Danish Anaesthesia Databas...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Nørskov AK,Rosenstock CV,Wetterslev J,Astrup G,Afshari A,Lundstrøm LH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 15-year old girl underwent a posterior spinal fusion procedure for severe lordoscoliosis. On turning to the prone position acute posture-related upper airway obstruction occurred. During surgery, manipulation of the spine caused several episodes of loss of cardiac output. Retrospective assessment of the pre-operativ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Bagshaw ON,Jardine A

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：: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：:Plasma phosphate concentration (Pi), red cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentrations were measured pre-operatively and at intervals after operation for 30 h in twelve patients (nine males and three females, 44--61 years of age), who underwent open heart surgery. All patients r...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Swaminathan R,Morgan DB,Ionescu M,Hill GL

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind randomised study was performed to investigate the effect of pH adjustment of bupivacaine, with adrenaline 1:200,000, on the duration of block and pain relief after intercostal nerve blockade following thoracotomy. One group (n = 10) received bupivacaine with adrenaline 1:200,000 (pH = 4.1) and the other...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Swann DG,Armstrong PJ,Douglas E,Brockway M,Bowler GM

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:There is an ongoing debate as to whether propofol exhibits pro- or anticonvulsant effects, and whether it should be used in patients with epilepsy. We prospectively assessed the occurrence of seizure-like phenomena and the effects of intravenous propofol on the electroencephalogram (EEG) in 25 children with epilepsy (...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Meyer S,Shamdeen MG,Kegel B,Mencke T,Gottschling S,Gortner L,Grundmann U

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undetected defects in the inner tube of the Bain coaxial anaesthetic breathing system may result in a greatly increased apparatus deadspace. Several authorities have advocated tests intended to detect inner tube problems; however, the efficacy of these tests has never been validated. In this study none of the tests we...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Heath PJ,Marks LF

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for the determination of equipotent rates of infusion of intravenous hypnotic agents. Two end points have been defined; the rates needed to suppress the initial response to the surgical incision in 50% (ED50) and 95% (ED95) of patients receiving continuous infusion anaesthesia to supplement 67...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sear JW,Phillips KC,Andrews CJ,Prys-Roberts C

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular effects of 20 ml 0.75% bupivacaine with adrenaline 5 micrograms/ml injected epidurally were compared with those of 20 ml 0.75% ropivacaine with adrenaline. Cardiovascular measurements were performed with a transthoracic electrical bioimpedance monitor. The maximum mean arterial blood pressure decrea...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Kerkkamp HE,Gielen MJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Airtraq, a novel single use indirect laryngoscope, has demonstrated promise in the normal and simulated difficult airway. We compared the ease of intubation using the Airtraq with the Macintosh laryngoscope, in patients at increased risk for difficult tracheal intubation, in a randomised, controlled clinical trial...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Maharaj CH,Costello JF,Harte BH,Laffey JG

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketamine and midazolam were used for induction of anaesthesia and by continuous intravenous infusion for maintenance to assess their suitability for use in a total intravenous anaesthetic technique in the management of battle casualties. Muscular relaxation was provided by vecuronium and the patients' lungs ventilated...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Restall J,Tully AM,Ward PJ,Kidd AG

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：:Peri-operative hyperglycaemia, whether the cause is known diabetes, undiagnosed diabetes or stress hyperglycaemia, is a risk factor for harm, increased length of stay and death. There is increasing evidence that peri-operative hyperglycaemia is a modifiable risk factor, and many of the interventions required to improv...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Levy N,Dhatariya K

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:Postmortem specimens of 10 patients who had received continuous epidural anaesthesia postoperatively (ranging from 2-21 days) were examined. Slight epidural haemorrhage was observed in six patients and a macroscopically visible haematoma in a thrombocytopenic patient. Nonspecific epidural inflammatory reactions were o...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Wulf H,Striepling E

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circulatory depressant action of papaveretum was demonstrated when the drug was injected accidentally into the radial artery during neuroanaesthesia in the upright (sitting) position. The signs of air embolism were mimicked. The condition reponded promptly to a vasopressor given intravenously. There were no harmfu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Michel R,Adams AP

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four fit, unpremedicated patients who presented for routine surgery and received a standard anaesthetic technique were allocated randomly to three equal groups. Group 1 received tubocurarine 0.05 mg/kg before induction of anaesthesia. Group 2 received soluble aspirin 600 mg orally one hour before surgery, while...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： McLoughlin C,Nesbitt GA,Howe JP

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of morphine after surgery by patient-controlled analgesia alone or with a concurrent infusion was studied. The infusion did not reduce the dose of self-administered analgesic and patients treated in this way received twice as much drug as those who used patient-controlled analgesia alone. Pain contro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Owen H,Szekely SM,Plummer JL,Cushnie JM,Mather LE

更新日期：1989-01-01 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 face is a rich source of information about the respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological state of the patient. These systems are particularly affected in the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after cardiac surgery. It is possible to make firm decisions about mechanical ventilation by scrupulously caref...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Gilston A

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laryngeal mask airway cuff inflation pressures were measured when inflated with the same volume of gas firstly in free space and then in position in the pharynx. A large difference in these pressures was observed and this was related to pharyngeal mucosal perfusion pressure. This study shows that it may be easy to pro...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： O'Kelly SW,Heath KJ,Lawes EG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted this study to determine if placement of infraclavicular catheters guided by ultrasound is quicker than placement guided by nerve stimulation. Infraclavicular brachial plexus catheters were inserted in 210 randomly allocated patients who were scheduled for elective hand or elbow surgery. Needle and cathete...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Dhir S,Armstrong K,Armstrong P,Bouzari A,Mall J,Yu J,Ganapathy S,King G

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whilst conducting a randomised controlled trial into the effects of combination anti-emetics, we endeavoured to confirm that our patient groups were matched using the predictive scoring systems for postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) and postoperative vomiting (POV) reported in the literature. One hundred and sev...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Thomas R,Jones NA,Strike P

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00