Manual in-line stabilisation during tracheal intubation: effective protection or harmful dogma?
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Patient-centred measurement of recovery from day-case surgery using wrist worn accelerometers: a pilot and feasibility s...
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This pilot and feasibility study evaluated wrist-worn accelerometers to measure recovery from day-case surgery in comparison with daily quality of recovery-15 scores. The protocol was designed with extensive patient and public involvement and engagement, and delivered by a research network of anaesthesia trainees. Forty-eight patients recruited thr...
Conventional landmark palpation vs. preprocedural ultrasound for neuraxial analgesia and anaesthesia in obstetrics - a s...
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The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine the efficacy, time taken and the safety of neuraxial blockade performed for obstetric patients with the assistance of preprocedural ultrasound, in comparison with the landmark palpation method. The bibliographic databases Central, CINAHL, EMBASE, Global Health, MEDLINE, Scopus and W...
The effects of COVID-19 on hip fracture management and mortality in a regional trauma centre.
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Pre-operative optimisation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a narrative review.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a condition commonly present in older people undergoing surgery and confers an increased risk of postoperative complications and mortality. Although predominantly a respiratory disease, it frequently has extra-pulmonary manifestations and typically occurs in the context of other long-term conditions. Patient...
Non-invasive haemoglobin measurement as an index test to detect pre-operative anaemia in elective surgery patients - a p...
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Non-invasive haemoglobin measurement using absolute values lacks the precision to be the sole basis for the treatment of pre-operative anaemia. However, it can possibly serve as a screening test, indexing 'anaemia' with high sensitivity when values remain under prespecified cut-off values. Based on previous data, non-invasive haemoglobin cut-off va...
Tailoring postoperative pain management with a procedure-specific approach: how to best apply this concept to caesarean ...
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How can Never Event data be used to reflect or improve hospital safety performance?
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The absolute number of Never Events is used by UK regulators to help assess hospital safety performance, without account of hospital workload. We applied funnel plots, as an established means of taking workload into account, to published Never Event data for 151 acute Trusts in NHS England, matched to finished consultant episodes for 3 years, 2017-...
Virtual reality for acute and chronic pain management in adult patients: a narrative review.
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Virtual reality is a computer-generated environment that immerses the user in an interactive artificial world. This ability to distract from reality has been utilised for the purposes of providing pain relief from noxious stimuli. As technology rapidly matures, there is potential for anaesthetists and pain physicians to incorporate virtual reality ...
Artificial intelligence for image interpretation in ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia.
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