Recently added articles from Anaesthesia and Intensive Care:
The first controversy over monitoring in anaesthesia
Mar 01, 2008; ... 'As soon as the instrument was introduced the pulse increased to 144, and immediately afterwards it became uneven, irregular and intermittent ... I applied my ear to the chest and on one occasion, whilst the large catheter for injecting the bladder was being introduced and the patient was holding ...
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008. An assessment by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 20081,2 is a comprehensive and ambitious attempt to define and implement best practice internationally for the management of critically ill patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Many ...
The role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for treatment of the adult respiratory distress syndrome: review and quantitative analysis
Mar 01, 2008; ... SUMMARY The role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has not been formally validated for patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome. In anticipation of publication of the conventional ventilation versus ECMO in severe adult respiratory failure (CESAR) trial, the role of ...
Effects of arginine vasopressin on oxygenation and haemodynamics during one-lung ventilation in an animal model
Mar 01, 2008; ... SUMMARY In a case of arterial hypotension during one-lung ventilation, haemodynamic support may be required to maintain adequate mean arterial pressure. Arginine vasopressin, a potent systemic vasoconstrictor with limited effects on the pulmonary artery pressure, has not been studied in ...
The use of Lee and co-workers' index to assist a risk adjusted audit of perioperative cardiac outcome
Mar 01, 2008; ... SUMMARY Lee and co-workers' revised cardiac risk index was used to study the perioperative cardiac outcome of 296 patients. The index uses a history of ischaemic heart disease, congestive cardiac failure, diabetes treated with insulin, a creatinine greater than 180 µmol/l, ...