Batliner, M Weiss, M Dual, S A Grass, B Meboldt, M Schmid Daners, M
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Anaesthesia
Syringe infusion pumps are used for the administration of short-acting drugs in anaesthesia and critical care medicine, but are prone to flow irregularities at low flow rates. A flow-controlled syringe infusion pump using an integrated flow sensor for feedback control represents a new approach to overcoming these limitations. This study compares th...
Laycock, H Bailey, C R
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Anaesthesia
More than 50% of medical students and 45% of practising doctors are female in the UK. In the specialty of anaesthesia, 32% of consultants are female. However, compared with males, females are under-represented as authors of articles published in high-impact journals. We investigated the proportion of female first authors by examining the case repor...
Yentis, S M Shinde, S Plunkett, E Mortimore, A
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Anaesthesia
Following a 2-3-month period of publicity, anaesthetists were invited to participate in an online survey that was administered by a third party company on behalf of the Association of Anaesthetists and ran between 3 September and 31 October 2018. Anaesthetists working in the UK or Ireland were asked about the presence or absence of welfare/support ...
Holmberg, A Ho, A V Fernand, D Toska, K Wester, T Klaastad, Ø Draegni, T Sauter, A R
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Anaesthesia
We evaluated the effect of adrenaline on human skin microcirculation (nutritive and sub-papillary) and systemic cardiovascular variables after it was added to lidocaine in infraclavicular brachial plexus blocks. Twelve healthy, non-smoking male volunteers were included, each attending two study sessions 2 weeks apart, and they were studied using a ...
Scott, D A
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Anaesthesia
Rao Kadam, V Ludbrook, G van Wijk, R M Hewett, P J Moran, J L Thiruvenkatarajan, V Williams, P J
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Anaesthesia
Following abdominal surgery, the provision of postoperative analgesia with local anaesthetic infusion through both transmuscular quadratus lumborum block and pre-peritoneal catheter have been described. This study compared these two methods of postoperative analgesia following laparotomy. Eighty-two patients 18-85 years of age scheduled to undergo ...
Anderson, B J Sinclair, J
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Anaesthesia
Jenkins, B J
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Anaesthesia
Joshi, G P Van de Velde, M Kehlet, H
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Anaesthesia
Effective peri-operative pain management is a prerequisite for optimal recovery after surgery. Despite published evidence-based guidelines from several professional groups, postoperative pain management remains inadequate. The procedure-specific pain management (PROSPECT) collaboration consists of anaesthetists and surgeons with broad international...
Al Ja'bari, A Robertson, M El-Boghdadly, K Albrecht, E
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Anaesthesia
We randomly allocated 50 women scheduled for radical mastectomy to pectoral nerves-2 (PECS-2) block (n = 25) or no block (n = 25), 20 and 22 of whom we analysed for the primary outcome of a cumulative 24-h postoperative morphine dose. We gave intra-operative sufentanil, magnesium, dexamethasone and droperidol. Participants received regular postoper...
