Wembridge, Paul Szmerling, Jeremy D Mar, Gordon Williams, Annie
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
This multicentre, retrospective medical record audit evaluated opioid analgesia prescribing within a Victorian metropolitan public hospital network. The study included all surgical patients discharged between January 2012 and December 2020 with one or more discharge prescriptions from three metropolitan hospitals (n = 117,989). The main outcome mea...
Howard-Jones, Annaleise R Huang, Stephen Orde, Sam R Branley, James M
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Patients with severe clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present particular diagnostic and management challenges to critical care physicians, including identifying and responding to concurrent bacterial and fungal coinfections. This study evaluates risk factors for in-hospital mortality in patients admitted to the intensi...
Whittle, Nicola M Sleigh, Jamie W McKeage, James W Termaat, Jonathan Voss, Logan J Anderson, Brian J
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Jet injection is a drug delivery system without a needle. A compressed liquid drug formulation pierces the skin, depositing the drug into the subcutaneous or intramuscular tissues. We investigated the pharmacokinetics and patient experience of dexmedetomidine administered using jet injection in six healthy adult study participants. This needleless ...
Lim, Kar-Soon
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Baxter, Teneal E Grimmett, Wallace G
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Doshi, Hemang P Vachharajani, Hemal H Tchan, Michael C Nasreddine, Mohamed A Billmore, Kate E
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
A 19-year-old woman with known maple syrup urine disease presented to hospital with metabolic crisis in the setting of influenza type A infection and intractable vomiting, rapidly progressing to acute cerebral oedema manifesting as refractory seizures and decreased level of consciousness needing emergency intubation and mechanical ventilation, cont...
Ball, Christine M Featherstone, Peter J
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Featherstone, Peter J Ball, Christine M
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Dexter, Franklin Epstein, Richard H Thenuwara, Kokila N
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Obstetric surgical suites differ from most inpatient surgical suites, serving one specialty, and often small. We evaluated long-term capacity planning for these operating rooms. The retrospective cohort study included all caesarean births in three operating rooms over 28 years, 1994 through 2021, plus all other obstetric procedures over the latter ...
Jeon, Andy Nagappan, Leena
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Among all surgical specialties, vascular surgery has the greatest proportion of patients with unplanned admissions to the intensive care unit postoperatively. Therefore, current clinical pathways for the postoperative management of vascular surgery patients may need to be revised. We aimed to compare the prevalence of postoperative deterioration in...
