abstract：:Twenty women were given a bolus induction of propofol 2.0 mg.kg-1 for elective caesarean section. Induction to delivery times ranged from five to fourteen minutes. At delivery the maternal venous (MV) concentrations of propofol ranged from 0.53 to 1.48 micrograms.ml-1 umbilical vein (UV) 0.39 to 1.4 micrograms.ml-1 an...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Gin T,Gregory MA,Chan K,Oh TE

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of anaesthesia and outcome of 75 treatments in 52 patients are discussed. Total intravenous anaesthetic techniques were used with venturi ventilation via a rigid bronchoscope. A number of complications occurred, but there was no death or major surgical complication. All complications except one were app...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jackson KA,Morland MH

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre- and postoperative effects of oral diazepam (0.5 mg/kg), trimeprazine (4 mg/kg), pentobarbitone (3 mg/kg) and a placebo were compared in a randomized double-blind clinical trial in 149 children, aged one to ten years, undergoing adenotonsillectomy. The anaesthetic was standardised and each patient received int...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： van der Walt JH,Jacob R,Murrell D,Bentley M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Finapres (Ohmeda, Madison, U.S.A.) is a non-invasive device which continuously measures the arterial blood pressure in a finger and produces a real-time display of the arterial pressure wave. It consists of a finger cuff with an infra-red transmission plethysmograph, a servo control box and a monitor unit. The dev...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kermode JL,Davis NJ,Thompson WR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to introduce the technique of epidural narcotics for pain relief in Papua New Guinea, fifty patients were given low doses of epidural morphine and thereupon the quality of analgesia and morbidity evaluated. The lowest effective epidural morphine dose was determined by considering the patient's characteristics...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Oberoi GS,Yaubihi N

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied prospectively 49 patients being treated in an intensive care unit with aminoglycosides for gram-negative sepsis. Pharmacokinetic data were calculated from three post-dose serum levels using a one-compartment model. Doses required to achieve peak levels between 5 and 10 mg/l with trough levels approximately ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Beckhouse MJ,Whyte IM,Byth PL,Napier JC,Smith AJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobutamine 300 mg was administered orally to both healthy volunteers and to patients with circulatory failure. After the 300 mg dose of dobutamine, subjects were found to have a higher concentration of the drug in their plasma than the effective levels of 37.5 (SD 2.9) ng/ml (n = 5) normally seen during intravenous in...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Noda Y,Yazaki S,Suzuki H,Shibanoki S,Ishikawa K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to monitor the electrical activity of the central nervous system and to record responses to stimulation allows for a more immediate assessment of the functional integrity of the nervous system during anaesthesia than do conventional techniques. These monitoring methods, however, have been slow to find acce...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： McMeniman WJ,Purcell GJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cricoid pressure to prevent inflation of the stomach during mask ventilation of a patient was studied. Fifty patients were randomly allocated to either have or not have cricoid pressure applied during a three-minute period of standardised mask ventilation. Patients who had had cricoid pressure applied h...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Petito SP,Russell WJ

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen saturations of 152 children were studied for the first 30 minutes following general anaesthesia with a pulse oximeter. Thirty-six patients (24%) recorded oxygen saturations of less than 90% while breathing room air and in all cases this occurred during the first ten minutes. Intubation (P less than 0.001), ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Tomkins DP,Gaukroger PB,Bentley MW

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was conducted to investigate the attitudes of anaesthetists and nurses to anaesthetic pollution. In order that the results could be viewed in context, attitudes to other possible occupational hazards, including radiation exposure and work-related stress, were also investigated. Four hundred (66%) completed qu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Plummer JL,Sandison CH,Ilsley AH,Cousins MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major craniofacial surgery has the potential for very large blood loss, frequently greater than one blood volume. In order that an assessment could be made of any deficiencies of platelet function or coagulation, tests were performed at intervals during the operation. None of the coagulation parameters showed variatio...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Sweeney D,Williams V

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma osmolalities were measured in 100 normal, 100 general hospital and 100 intensive care patients, and compared with the osmolalities calculated from the plasma concentrations of sodium, potassium, glucose and urea, using five different published formulae. The mean osmolar gaps in the 100 consecutive intensive car...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Worthley LI,Guerin M,Pain RW

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacokinetic concepts describe the relationship between drug dose and resulting plasma concentration. A drug's pharmacokinetic profile can be described by distribution and elimination half-lives, initial volume of distribution, steady-state distribution volume, and metabolic and distributional clearance. After init...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stanski DR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical structure of drug molecules determines their fundamental pharmacological properties by 'fit' to the receptor, but the physicochemical properties, particularly lipid solubility and fraction un-ionised, dominate in determining distribution in the body and the rate of access to the biophase containing the dr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Mather LE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three volatile anaesthetic agent monitors (Datex Normac Anesthetic Agent Monitor, Engstrom Emma Multigas Monitor and Penlon Halothane Meter) were evaluated for the effects of nitrous oxide or water vapour, and for their linearity, stability, and rate of response to a change in concentration of various anaesthetic agen...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ilsley AH,Plummer JL,Runciman WB,Cousins MJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) maintains airway pressure above atmospheric at the end of expiration, and may be used with mechanical ventilation or spontaneous breathing. CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, refers to spontaneous ventilation with a positive airway pressure being maintained throughout...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Duncan AW,Oh TE,Hillman DR

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the state of the art in Australia of manually operated, self-inflating bag resuscitators, including the Laerdal, Air Viva and Ambu; manually operated bags dependent upon an oxygen supply, including Mapleson B, C, E and F, the CIG Medishield Oxy-Saver and modified Oxy-Viva Resuscitator 3, and the Kom...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Phillips GD,Skowronski GA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews recent applications of mechanical ventilation such as controlled hypoventilation in acute asthma, domiciliary nocturnal ventilation in chronic respiratory failure due to neuromuscular disease and improvement of left ventricular performance by raised intrathoracic pressure. Established uses of mechan...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Henning R

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper was commissioned to cover the beginning of anaesthesia: the transition from surgical operations with pain to those without. It reviews some previous pre-anaesthetic histories (Part I): it focuses upon attitudes to pain; and it seeks evidence from the one hundred years before the discovery of anaesthesia. Fi...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Smith WD

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension after cardiac surgery is common and requires accurate control by carefully regulated infusions of drugs such as sodium nitroprusside. A microprocessor-based controller has been designed to close the loop between the blood pressure response and the infusion rate of a hypotensive drug. This system has been ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Rosenfeldt FL,Chang V,Grigg M,Parker S,Cearns R,Rabinov M,Xu WG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy patients who underwent a total of 77 consecutive carotid endarterectomies were given thiopentone (mean dose 19 mg/kg) under EEG control for cerebral protection during the period of carotid clamping. This technique was used instead of elective insertion of a temporary bypass shunt in response to adverse EEG cha...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Hicks RG,Kerr DR,Horton DA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two cases of diaphragmatic hernia, presenting from 1978 to 1982, were reviewed. Sixteen patients presented before 24 hours of life, of whom nine survived (56%). Six were late presenters who all did well. Seven babies had ten documented episodes of persistent foetal circulation (PFC) occurring as early as three ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fong LV,Pemberton PJ

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although penetrating abdominal trauma is on the increase in Australia, blunt trauma continues to account for the majority of cases and usually presents a more challenging problem than the former. Diagnosis has been greatly facilitated by the widespread use of peritoneal lavage and computerised tomography. Conservative...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Webster VJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive challenge was used to investigate twenty-seven patients with a history of an adverse response to local anaesthesia. True allergy was detected in only one patient. The method does not exclude reactions to additives and preservatives in local anaesthetics. If preservative-free local anaesthetics are used for...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Fisher MM,Graham R

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study on five upright (head above thorax) anaesthetised sheep demonstrated a statistically significant increase in central venous pressure and decrease in pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, following the injection of air 2 ml per kg into the pulmonary artery. In two out of the five sheep after air embolism, right-...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Pfitzner J,McLean AG

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the many critics of autologous blood transfusion, there is virtually no literature to support such an attitude in relation to any form of premeditated autologous blood transfusion. It is only in relation to intraoperative blood scavenging that there have been complications. In contrast, there is considerable l...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Isbister JP

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analgesia below the knee can be achieved by blocking the tibial nerve and the common peroneal nerve in the popliteal fossa, and the saphenous nerve adjacent to the knee. The anatomy and technique of nerve block in the popliteal fossa is described, the nerve being located prior to blockade using a peripheral nerve stim...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Kempthorne PM,Brown TC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy patients underwent anaesthesia for 280 renal transplants between October 1977 and October 1982. Their medical records were studied retrospectively. These patients were representative of the end-stage chronic renal failure population, with the usual high incidence of cardiovascular and biochemic...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Marsland AR,Bradley JP

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients were studied to determine the changes in pancuronium requirements during hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. They were anaesthetised with fentanyl as the principal agent, ventilated with oxygen and the neuromuscular junction was monitored using train-of-four stimulation. After a bolus dose of pancuroniu...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Futter ME,Whalley DG,Wynands JE,Bevan DR

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many anaesthetists practising in Australia and New Zealand realise that differences exist in the training of their counterparts in the United States. This review attempts to highlight the differences observed by two anaesthetists who have been involved in both systems. Aspects of the American Board of Anesthesiology e...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Ronai A,Shanks CA

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The safety and efficacy of prolonged infusion of alphaxalone/alphadolone (Alfathesin: Glaxo) was assessed in 20 critically ill patients needing sedation during intermittent positive pressure ventilation in a general intensive care unit. The mean dose of Alfathesin infused was 1542 ml (range: 225 to 4820 ml) over 6.9 d...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Stewart GO,Dobb GJ,Craib IA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective double-blind study, single-dose lumbar epidural blockade was administered to 60 healthy patients undergoing lower abdominal surgery, the patients lying in the lateral position only during the time of injection of the local anaesthetic. Solutions used were bupivacaine HCl 0.5%, lignocaine HCl 2% and li...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Seow LT,Lips FJ,Cousins MJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conscious subjects breathing spontaneously the performance of the Lack semi-closed system resembled the Magill attachment in that rebreathing was only detected at fresh gas flows of less than resting minute volume. With the Bain semi-closed system rebreathing was detectable at fresh gas flows of the order of 2.5 ti...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Nott MR,Walters FJ,Norman J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma catecholamine concentrations in blood obtained simultaneously from the pulmonary and radial arteries of ten critically ill patients have been measured. The mean mixed venous concentrations of noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine were extremely high, noradrenaline 11.3 pmol/ml (SD 11.6), adrenaline 2.7 pmol/ml...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Russell WJ,Frewin DB,Jonsson JR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer-based data storage and analysis system has been used to examine data obtained from 1257 patients admitted to an intensive care unit. The system readily provides administrative and clinical information which can be used to assess the workload, therapeutic efficiency and cost-effectiveness of such a unit. As ...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Pybus DA,Gatt S,Torda TA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies which suggest the existence of an endogenous neural substrate of pain inhibition are reviewed. Electrical stimulation of some areas of the medial brain stem in laboratory rats has produced a dramatic degree of analgesia. Such stimulation-produced analgesia is partially blocked by an opiate antagonist dr...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Liebeskind JC,Sherman JE,Cannon T

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and thirty-nine patients undergoing routine surgical procedures over a five-day period at Royal Brisbane Hospital were interviewed after operation. 66.2% of patients were aware that an anaesthetist needed a medical qualification. 76% expected their anaesthetic to be without complications. 80% were seen pre...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Burrow BJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of cerebral homeostasis is reviewed, paying particular attention to the way blood-brain barrier, cerebrospinal fluid and cerebral blood flow contribute to the maintenance of normal intracranial pressure. The pathophysiology of raised intracranial pressure is outlined delineating the different types of ce...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Jones RF,Dorsch NW,Silverberg GD,Torda TA

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thirty-year-old female presented with a high fever, conjunctivitis, confusion, vomiting, watery diarrhoea, diffuse erythroderma, shock and oliguric renal failure. Staphylococcus aureus phage 29/52 (Group 1) was isolated from a high vaginal swab. In addition to all the previously reported features which defined toxic...

journal_title：Anaesthesia and intensive care

authors： Oh TE,Quinlan MF,Thompson WR,Haywood EF,Lloyd BL,Bower G,Hookway G

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00