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Anyone who has ever stayed overnight in a hospital will know how difficult it can be to sleep, surrounded by staff, machinery, trolleys and telephones. In the UK, 40% of hospital patients are bothered by noise at night, according to in-patient surveys. But it’s not only the patients’ wellbeing that may be affected – high […]
Read MoreAuthors: Brian E. Driver, MD et al JAMA • June 5, 2018 To understand procedural challenges of endotracheal intubation. Question In patients admitted to the emergency department with difficult airway characteristics undergoing orotracheal intubation with a Macintosh laryngoscope blade, does a bougie facilitate higher first-attempt intubation success than an endotracheal tube + stylet? Findings In this randomized clinical trial that included 757 […]
Read MoreAuthors: Sarah Devroe et al Pediatric Anesthesia July 2018 Background In adults, xenon has only minimal hemodynamic side effects when compared with other anesthetics. Moreover, in preclinical experiments, xenon has been demonstrated to possess cardio‐ and neuroprotective properties. Altogether, the favorable hemodynamic profile combined with its potential for organ‐protection could render xenon an attractive option […]
Read MoreAuthors: Zhi-Fu Wu, M.D. et al Anesthesiology 11 2018, Vol.129, 932-941. What We Already Know about This Topic: Propofol may better preserve host defenses against cancer Whether cancer recurrence is less likely with propofol than volatile anesthesia remains unknown What This Article Tells Us That Is New: The authors conducted a propensity-matched retrospective analysis of 1,158 […]
Read MoreAuthors: Allana Munro et al Canadian Journal of Anesthesia November 2018, Volume 65, Issue 11, pp 1240–1247| Purpose The incidence of epidural top-ups received in the second stage of labour in nulliparous women and the obstetrical and neonatal implications associated with these boluses are explored in this retrospective observational study. We hypothesized that an epidural top-up in the second stage of labour […]
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