The effects of thiopentone and propofol on delayed hypersensitivity reactions.

abstract：:The management of a patient who required positive pressure ventilation following pharyngolaryngo-oesophagectomy during which tracheal injury was sustained is described. Ventilation with a tracheal tube resulted in a massive pneumoperitoneum. Bilateral bronchial intubation was employed with success. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Mitchell JB,Ward PM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a randomised controlled trial to compare the efficacy of forced-air warming (Bair Hugger(trade mark), Augustine Medical model 500/OR, Prairie, MN) with that of an electric heating pad (Operatherm 202, KanMed, Sweden) for maintenance of intra-operative body temperature in 60 patients undergoing total knee ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Ng V,Lai A,Ho V

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary shunting (Qs/Qt with the FIO2 = 1) was determined in ten young healthy non-obese patients prior to anaesthesia, 30 min after induction in the supine position and 1 h later during surgery in the prone position. Respiration was spontaneous in awake patients and was controlled following the induction of anaesth...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Stone JG,Khambatta HJ

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the potential for atmospheric nitrogen to enter the nonventilated lung following the initiation of single-lung ventilation, the nonventilated lung of 10 patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopy was connected to the air in a water-filled spirometer, and gas movement out of and back into the lung was me...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Pfitzner J,Peacock MJ,McAleer PT

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described of epidural anaesthesia for electric Caesarean section which has a 98% success rate, and an acceptably low incidence of intra-operative pain. The essentials of the technique are to produce and maintain complete sensory block from S5 to T6, employing a two-stage injection of bupivacaine 0.5% (m...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Thorburn J,Moir DD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phaeochromocytoma can mimic many serious disease entities. This report describes a 43-year-old man who presented with pulmonary oedema due to a phaeochromocytoma. Predominantly adrenaline-secreting tumours seem to predispose to this complication. Labetalol, a combined alpha- and beta-receptor blocker, should be consid...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Blom HJ,Karsdorp V,Birnie R,Davies G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Lissive anaesthesia', the administration of a small dose of a non-depolarising muscle relaxant to a patient breathing nitrous oxide, oxygen and an anaesthetic vapour, is a technique popularly employed for minor procedures. In this study, the effects of intravenous gallamine triethiodide (40 mg) on the blood-gas statu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Macfarlane DW,Downing JW,Mahomedy MC

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring prolonged tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation is described. Tracheal dilation was noted to have occurred following an elective surgical tracheostomy. Eventually, the patient was successfully weaned from mechanical ventilation and the trache...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Rhodes A,Lamb FJ,Grounds RM,Bennett ED

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this, the second of two articles covering specific medical emergencies, we discuss the definitions, epidemiology, pathophysiology, acute and chronic management of pulmonary embolus and acute severe asthma. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Somasundaram K,Ball J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite numerous guidelines on the management of anaemia in surgical patients, there is no pragmatic guidance for the diagnosis and management of anaemia and iron deficiency in the postoperative period. A number of experienced researchers and clinicians took part in a two-day expert workshop and developed the followin...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Muñoz M,Acheson AG,Bisbe E,Butcher A,Gómez-Ramírez S,Khalafallah AA,Kehlet H,Kietaibl S,Liumbruno GM,Meybohm P,Rao Baikady R,Shander A,So-Osman C,Spahn DR,Klein AA

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 51 young male outpatients given spinal anaesthesia through a 25-gauge needle, we found a 37.2% incidence of postdural puncture headache. In addition, 54.9% complained of backache after surgery. Occurrence of headache significantly prolonged the sick-leave from work. General anaesthesia would ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Flaatten H,Raeder J

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-operative radionuclide angiography, a non-invasive technique for evaluating ventricular function, was performed on 34 consecutive patients undergoing aortobifemoral bypass grafting for abdominal aortic occlusive disease, to determine whether pre-existing coronary artery disease causes significant modification of c...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Commin P,Coriat P,Fauchet M,Kural S,Menasche P,Romary D,Echter E

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to develop an audit tool to identify prospectively all peri-operative adverse events during airway management in a cost-effective and reproducible way. All patients at VU University Medical Center who required general anaesthesia for elective and emergency surgical procedures were included du...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Huitink JM,Lie PP,Heideman I,Jansma EP,Greif R,van Schagen N,Schauer A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation is performed under general anaesthesia. This report describes awareness or recall in two of 33 patients scheduled for implantation. After induction, anaesthesia was maintained using continuous infusions of propofol and atracurium and intermittent boluses of alfentani...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Moerman A,Herregods L,Foubert L,Poelaert J,Jordaens L,D'Hont L,Rolly G

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the design and working of a computer-controlled, closed anaesthetic breathing system which rapidly achieves and maintains a prescribed end-tidal concentration of isoflurane in oxygen. The system is simple to set up and not expensive; the only nonstandard component is a modified glass syringe. We have demon...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Lockwood GG,Chakrabarti MK,Whitwam JG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that, in some situations, the cuff of the laryngeal mask should be filled with fluid. We speculated that this practice might damage the device during sterilisation in an autoclave. We studied whether injection of a small volume of water into the cuff of the laryngeal mask and subsequent sterilisa...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Asai T,Koga K,Morris S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Laryngeal Tube S and the LMA-ProSeal are supraglottic instruments with an improved airway seal and a drainage tube to protect against regurgitation and to facilitate passage of a gastric tube. We compared the feasibility of these two instruments in a randomised, controlled clinical trial. One hundred and sixty pat...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Klaver NS,Kuizenga K,Ballast A,Fidler V

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lamtec agent monitor is a compact anaesthetic analyser designed to measure halothane, isoflurane and enflurane. It shows good linearity and stability. The faster model can be used for end-tidal measurements up to 25 breaths per minute. Calibration using a standard of the gas to be measured is recommended. ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Humphrey SJ,Luff NP,White DC

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the use of a new ke0 value (0.6 min(-1)) for the Marsh pharmacokinetic model for propofol. Speed of induction and side-effects produced were compared with three other target-controlled infusion systems. Eighty patients of ASA physical status 1-2 were studied in four groups in a prospective, randomised study...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Thomson AJ,Morrison G,Thomson E,Beattie C,Nimmo AF,Glen JB

更新日期：2014-05-01 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 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：: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：:Some of the acute metabolic derangements of unstable diabetes have been discussed. The management of patients undergoing surgical operations has also been considered. No problems are usually encountered in diabetic patients treated with diet alone or with oral hypoglycaemic compounds, although chlorpropamide may need ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Maw DS

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the hypothesis that cervical collars might compress the internal jugular veins and raise intracranial pressure in head-injured patients. In a randomised, single-blind, crossover study of nine patients scheduled for elective spinal anaesthesia the cerebrospinal fluid pressure in the lumbar subarachnoid ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Raphael JH,Chotai R

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Point-of-care coagulation monitoring can be used for the guidance of haemostasis management. However, the influence of time on point-of-care prothrombin time testing following protamine administration after cardiopulmonary bypass has not been investigated. Bland-Altman and error grid analysis were used to analyse the ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Meesters MI,Kuiper G,Vonk AB,Loer SA,Boer C

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although epidural analgesia is routinely used in many institutions for patients undergoing hepatic resection, there are unresolved issues regarding its safety and efficacy in this setting. We performed a review of papers published in the area of anaesthesia and analgesia for liver resection surgery and selected four a...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Tzimas P,Prout J,Papadopoulos G,Mallett SV

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of vecuronium and atracurium was studied in 60 children of ASA physical status 1 or 2. In part I, the dose-response relationships were determined in 30 children who were randomly assigned to receive a single bolus of 0.02, 0.025 or 0.03 mg kg-1 of vecuronium or 0.075, 0.01 or 0.0125 mg.kg-1 of atracuri...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Sloan MH,Bissonnette B,Lerman J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotonic saline is a widely-used infusion fluid, although the associated chloride load may cause metabolic acidosis and impair kidney function in young, healthy volunteers. We wished to examine whether these effects also occurred in the elderly, and conducted a crossover study in 13 men with a mean age of 73 years (ra...

journal_title：Anaesthesia

authors： Hahn RG,Isacson MN,Fagerström T,Rosvall J,Nyman CR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00