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Ultrasound-guided peripheral regional anaesthesia: a feasibility study in obese versus normal-weight women
In particular, obese patients may profit from peripheral regional anaesthesia due to avoidance of general anaesthesia. Currently, ultrasound (US) guidance is described as the golden standard in regional anaest...
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19 Auditory Awareness of Music During Sleep and Anesthesia. A Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Infants
Background: The level of sensory awareness during anesthesia is difficult to monitor. Near infrared spectroscopy NIRS, is a non-invasive bedside tool which allows monitoring cerebral cortical haemodynamic changes...
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20 Sevoflurane Effect on Cerebral Haemodynamics During Induction of Anesthesia in Young Children Assessed By Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Preliminary Results
Background: Induction of anaesthesia with anaesthetic gas might be a potential cause for cerebral impairment in the newborn and young infant. Near infrared spectroscopy - NIRS - is a continuous, non-invasive beds...
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How continuous are continuous drug infusions?
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Single breath exhaled nitric oxide (NO) in the newborn
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Outpatient surgery in paediatric patients
As with spinal anaesthesia, outpatient surgery in paediatric patients has been practiced since the start of this century. It constituted a substantial part of paediatric anaesthesia even before the days of hea...
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Immediate postoperative considerations
Indications of the unglamorous nature of immediate paediatric postoperative care are the telling scarcity of published studies in this field and the very limited attention paid to these problems in paediatric ...
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Continuous syringe pumps
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Design flaw can convert commercially available continuous syringe pumps to intermittent bolus injectors
Objective: To investigate if unexpected behaviour of neonatal and paediatric patients connected to syringe pumps could be explained by transient elevation of these devices. Design: Five ...
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Inhaled nitric oxide in newborn and paediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension and moderate to severe impaired oxygenation: effects of doses of 3–100 parts per million
Objective: To assess the effects of inhaled nitric oxide (INO) 3–100 ppm on oxygenation in both newborn and paediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension and impaired gas exchange. Des...
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Endogenous Nitric Oxide Formation in the Respiratory System
Synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) derived from L-arginine is known to occur in a number of tissues. NO is believed to exert regulatory functions in the circulatory, nervous and immune systems [1,2]. In the respir...
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Curettage of benign lesions of bone
In a retrospective study of 155 patients with different types of benign lesions of bone, the rate of recurrence following simple currettage was analysed in relation to sex, age, histological type, the location...
