Efficacy of continuous intercostal bupivacaine for pain relief after thoracotomy.

abstract：:The effect on intervillous blood flow of lumbar extradural analgesia for Caesarean section was studied in nine healthy women using xenon-133. Extradural anaesthesia was performed with lignocaine 1 1/2% 16--20 ml with adrenaline 5 microgram ml-1. Impairment of placental blood flow during the block was observed in seven...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Jouppila R,Jouppila P,Kuikka J,Hollmén A

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-yr-old woman with an atrial septum defect and Eisenmenger syndrome was scheduled for a lung biopsy via thoracoscopy during one-lung ventilation. Fluids were given to increase central venous pressure to 8 mm Hg, an epidural catheter was inserted at the sixth thoracic intervertebral space and ropivacaine 0.3%, 6 ml...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Heller AR,Litz RJ,Koch T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This editorial looks at some of the various anesthesias used during pregnancy termination. Trichloroethylene, often a popular substitute for halothane, has been subjected to little evaluation. Only clinical study however, can actually establish the significance of myometrial depressant properties in the pregnant pat...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Grant IS

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized, double-blind study of 38 patients undergoing total knee replacement was undertaken to compare the efficacy and respiratory effects of low-dose spinal morphine and patient-controlled i.v. morphine against patient-controlled i.v. morphine alone. Patients received either morphine 0.3 mg or saline 0.3 ml wit...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Cole PJ,Craske DA,Wheatley RG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several risk scores have been developed to calculate the probability of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). However, the power to discriminate which individual will suffer from PONV is still limited. Thus, we wondered how the number of predictors in a score affects the discriminating power and how the characteri...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Apfel CC,Kranke P,Greim CA,Roewer N

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory steady state response (ASSR) is a sinusoidal evoked potential elicited by rapidly repeated auditory stimuli. The ASSR was recorded in eight patients during high-dose sufentanil anaesthesia for cardiac surgery in order to assess its usefulness as a measure of the level of consciousness. The electroencephal...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Plourde G,Boylan JF

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated prospectively the use of Gram staining of protected pulmonary specimens to allow the early diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), compared with the use of 60 bronchoscopic protected specimen brushes (PSB) and 126 blinded plugged telescopic catheters (PTC) obtained from 134 patients. Gram stai...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Mimoz O,Karim A,Mazoit JX,Edouard A,Leprince S,Nordmann P

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulse pressure variation (PPV) and stroke volume variation (SVV) are robust indicators of fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated supine patients. The aim of the study was to evaluate the ability of PPV and SVV to predict fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients in the prone position ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Biais M,Bernard O,Ha JC,Degryse C,Sztark F

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the increasing prevalence of children who are overweight and with obesity, anaesthesiologists must determine the optimal dosing of medications given the altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in this population. We therefore determined the single dose of dexmedetomidine that provided sufficient s...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Wu B,Shan J,Zhou Q,Wang L

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes the laboratory evidence and microvascular mechanisms responsible for the beneficial effects of statins in sepsis. During sepsis, changes occur within the microcirculation including alterations in arteriolar tone influencing blood pressure, adaptations to endothelial cell integrity causing leakage...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： McGown CC,Brookes ZL

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-frequency oscillation (HFO) is a widely used lung-protective ventilatory strategy in paediatric and neonatal acute lung injury. Its safe and effective use has been hindered by inadequate recruitment of the lung during oscillation and, until recently, the lack of an adequately powered oscillator for use ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Moganasundram S,Durward A,Tibby SM,Murdoch IA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal haemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable maternal death worldwide and encompasses antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum bleeding. This review highlights factors that predispose to severe bleeding, its management, and the most recent treatment and guidelines. Advances in obstetric care have provided p...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Walfish M,Neuman A,Wlody D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perioperative risk of death after general surgery is quoted as overall less than 1%. However, each individual's risk varies widely according to many identified factors with some having a significantly increased risk of a worse outcome. The observation that manipulating and targeting certain physiological parameters in...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Tote SP,Grounds RM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of rapid delivery of multiple blood products to the bedside of a massively haemorrhaging patient seems to be a logical approach to the management of the massively bleeding patient. However, controversy exists in the use of fixed blood component ratios. Assessing the extent of the coagulopathy through point...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Waters JH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative non-cardiac complication rates are as high as 11-28% after high-risk abdominal procedures. Emerging evidence indicates that postoperative cardiac troponin T elevations are associated with adverse outcome in non-cardiac surgery. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pos...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Noordzij PG,van Geffen O,Dijkstra IM,Boerma D,Meinders AJ,Rettig TC,Eefting FD,van Loon D,van de Garde EM,van Dongen EP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial potassium channels are complexes formed by different subunits. The subunit composition may influence the cardiotoxic action of local anaesthetics. The effects of amide local anaesthetics on HERG channels co-expressed with the putative subunit MiRP1 have not been established. It is also unclear if ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Friederich P,Solth A,Schillemeit S,Isbrandt D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the efficacy of adding varying concentrations of hyaluronidase to a standard mixture of 2% lidocaine and 1% ropivacaine to provide peribulbar anaesthesia for cataract surgery. We used (i) the time to adequate anaesthesia for surgery and (ii) ocular and eyelid movement scores at 8 min after block as cl...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Mantovani C,Bryant AE,Nicholson G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the effects of sevoflurane and halothane on the discharge frequencies of 19 slowly adapting and four rapidly adapting lung receptors in the rabbit by recording from single vagal fibres. Both agents reduced the discharge frequency of slowly adapting receptors during expiration (P < 0.0005), halothane h...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Moores C,Davies AS,Dallak M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 16 healthy volunteers whose lungs were preoxygenated six times each in order to assess the amount of room air entrained during tidal volume preoxygenation if a good seal is not maintained between the face mask and the face. With a fresh gas flow of 10 litre min-1, we found that using gravity alone to h...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： McGowan P,Skinner A

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The AirWay Scope (AWS) is a fibreoptic device that allows for intubation without alignment of the oral, pharyngeal, and tracheal axes. It may be useful for patients with an unstable cervical-spine (C-spine) or when C-spine movement is undesirable. This study was conducted to fluoroscopically evaluate upper C...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Maruyama K,Yamada T,Kawakami R,Hara K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isoflurane has been reported to induce caspase-3 activation, which may induce neurotoxicity and contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. However, the underlying mechanism is largely unknown, especially whether or not isoflurane can induce ryanodine receptors (RyRs)-associated endoplasmic reticu...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Wang H,Dong Y,Zhang J,Xu Z,Wang G,Swain CA,Zhang Y,Xie Z

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Priming during anaesthesia has been hard to replicate and the conditions under which it occurs remain poorly understood. We replicated and extended a recent study to determine whether intraoperative priming during propofol and nitrous oxide anaesthesia is a reliable phenomenon, whether it occurs due to aware...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Deeprose C,Andrade J,Harrison D,Edwards N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transitions into and out of the anaesthetised state exhibit resistance to state transitions known as neural inertia. As a consequence, emergence from anaesthesia occurs at a consistently lower anaesthetic concentration than induction. Motivated by stochastic switching between discrete activity patterns obser...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Proekt A,Hudson AE

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arterial cannulation is a common anaesthetic procedure that can be challenging and time-consuming in small children. By visualizing the position of the radial artery, near-infrared vascular imaging systems (NIRVISs) might be of assistance in arterial cannulation. The present study evaluates the effectiveness...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Cuper NJ,de Graaff JC,Hartman BJ,Verdaasdonk RM,Kalkman CJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of the immuno-inflammatory response, as seen in sepsis, may culminate in host cell and organ damage. Lipopolysaccharide from Gram-negative bacterial cell walls induces gene activation and subsequent inflammatory mediator expression. Gene activation is regulated by a number of transcription factors at the...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Macdonald J,Galley HF,Webster NR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new pattern of nerve stimulation--double burst stimulation (DBS)--to detect residual neuromuscular block manually. The DBS consists of two short lasting, 50-Hz tetanic stimuli or bursts separated by a 750-ms interval. The response to this pattern of stimulation is two single separated muscle contractions ...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Engbaek J,Ostergaard D,Viby-Mogensen J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pretreatment with suxamethonium, gallamine or pancuronium on suxamethonium-induced fasciculations and myalgia was studied in a controlled, randomized and double-blind clinical trial. Both fasciculations and myalgia were assessed on a four-point rating scale. There was no significant correlation between f...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： O'Sullivan EP,Williams NE,Calvey TN

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the interactive effect of dexmedetomidine and morphine on gastric emptying and gastrointestinal transit in the rat. In one group of rats, to examine the interactive effect on gastrointestinal transit, the two drugs were injected i.p. in a fixed ratio (30: 1)--that of their ED50 values--in six doses (0.062-1...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Asai T,Mapleson WW,Power I

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fresh-frozen plasma (FFP) is widely used in critically ill patients, despite a weak evidence base. Factors that influence the decision to transfuse FFP before intravascular catheter insertion are poorly described. METHODS:We undertook a case-controlled study based on a prospective cohort study of 1923 admis...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Hall DP,Lone NI,Watson DM,Stanworth SJ,Walsh TS,Intensive Care Study of Coagulopathy (ISOC) Investigators.

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular (LV) pressure-volume (PV) loops were used to compare the functional effects that accompany the cardioprotection seen with desflurane, sevoflurane, and propofol in a rabbit preparation of coronary ischaemia-reperfusion (IR). METHODS:Male New Zealand White rabbits (n=48) were anaesthetized wi...

journal_title：British journal of anaesthesia

authors： Andrews DT,Royse AG,Royse CF

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00