Robertson, Tomas J McCulloch, Timothy J Paleologos, Michael S Downey, Ryan G Loadsman, John A Thanigasalam, Ruban Leslie, Scott
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy requires a pneumoperitoneum combined with steep Trendelenburg positioning, and these conditions can be associated with impairment of cerebral autoregulation. The objective of this study was to determine if choice of anaesthetic agent affects the preservation of cerebral autoregulation during robot-assisted ...
Noda, Yuko Mukaida, Keiko Miyoshi, Hirotsugu Nakamura, Ryuji Yasuda, Toshimichi Saeki, Noboru Nishino, Ichizo Tsutsumi, Yasuo M
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Dantrolene is currently the only drug known to specifically treat malignant hyperthermia (MH) crises. Although dantrolene attenuates Ca2+ disorders by acting mainly on the ryanodine receptor type 1 (RYR1), some patients who manifest MH without RYR1 variants have also been successfully treated with dantrolene. Thus, dantrolene appears to have an inh...
Fletcher, Luke R Coulson, Timothy G Story, David A Hiscock, Richard J Marhoon, Nada Nazareth, Justin M
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
This study aimed to investigate whether there was an association between an unanticipated prolonged post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) length of stay and early postoperative deterioration, as defined as the need for a rapid response team activation, within the first seven days of surgery. We conducted a single-centre retrospective cohort study of ad...
Sanderson, Brenton J Field, Jeremy D Estcourt, Lise J Wood, Erica M Coiera, Enrico W
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Keon-Cohen, Zoe M Story, David A Moran, Juli A Jones, Daryl A
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
The number of older, frail patients undergoing surgery is increasing, prompting consideration of the benefits of intensive treatment. Despite collaborative decision-making processes such as advance care planning being supported by recent Australian legislation, their role in perioperative care is yet to be defined. Furthermore, there has been littl...
Chin, Adrian Foster, Daniel J Pelecanos, Anita M Eley, Victoria A
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
At teaching hospitals, consultants must provide effective supervision, including appropriate selection of teaching cases, such that the outcomes achieved by trainees are similar to that of consultants. Numerous studies in the surgical literature have compared patient outcomes when surgery is performed by consultant surgeons or surgical trainees but...
Featherstone, Peter J Ball, Christine M
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Gibbs, Neville M Culwick, Martin D Endlich, Yasmin Merry, Alan F
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
This cross-sectional overview of the second 4000 incidents reported to webAIRS has findings that are very similar to the previous overview of the first 4000 incidents. The distribution of patient age, body mass index and American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status was similar, as was anaesthetist gender, grade, location and time of day of...
Strange Khursandi, Diana Eley, Victoria
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
There are no published data on the age of retirement of anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand. We surveyed 622 retired Fellows of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists to determine their ages of complete retirement from clinical practice, demographics, and whether they had retired at the age they had intended to retire. We al...
Qasem, Fatemah Hegazy, Ahmed F Fuller, John G Lavi, Ronit Singh, Sudha I
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Anaesthesia and intensive care
Point-of-care ultrasound can be used at the bedside to assess the haemodynamic status and fluid responsiveness of a pregnant woman. Previous studies demonstrated that views from the apical and parasternal windows are readily obtainable in labouring women. However, using the subcostal window to assess the inferior vena cava can be challenging becaus...
