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General anaesthesia versus local anaesthesia for carotidsurgery (GALA): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

Lancet, The, 2008
Background The eff ect of carotid endarterectomy in lowering the risk of stroke ipsilateral to severe atherosclerotic carotid-artery stenosis is off set by complications during or soon after surgery.
A. P. Banning, A. R. Bodenham, B. Colam, C. Liapis, C. P. Warlow, C. Tommasino, D. Dellagrammaticas, D. Torgerson, G. Ghilardi, GALA Trial Collaborative Group, M. Gough, M. Horrocks, M. J. Gough, P. M. Rothwell, S. C. Lewis   +14 more
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The effect of supplemental oxygen on perioperative brain natriuretic peptide concentration in cardiac risk patients – a protocol for a prosprective randomized clinical trial

Trials, 2020
Background Elevated postoperative N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) concentrations are predictive for cardiac adverse events in noncardiac surgery.
Christian Reiterer, Barbara Kabon, Markus Falkner von Sonnenburg, Patrick Starlinger, Alexander Taschner, Oliver Zotti, Julius Goshin, Gregor Drlicek, Edith Fleischmann   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A bench study comparing between scalpel-bougie technique and cannula-to-Melker technique in emergency cricothyroidotomy in a porcine model [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2018
Background The ideal emergency cricothyroidotomy technique remains a topic of ongoing debate. This study aimed to compare the cannula-to-Melker technique with the scalpel-bougie technique and determine whether yearly training in cricothyroidotomy ...
See Seong Chang, Qian Jun Tong, Zhi Yuen Beh, Kelvin Howyow Quek, Bun Hui Ang   +4 more
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Thoracic Segmental Spinal Anaesthesia for Modified Radical Mastectomy: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Thoracic Segmental Spinal Anaesthesia (TSSA) serves as a safe and effective alternative to general anaesthesia in high-risk patients with respiratory comorbidities such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Shyamolima Bhuyan, Deepjit Bhuyan, Kartik Chandraker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supreme™ laryngeal mask airway insertion requires a lower concentration of sevoflurane than ProSeal™ laryngeal mask airway insertion during target-controlled remifentanil infusion: a prospective randomised controlled study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background ProSeal (PLMA) and Supreme (SLMA) laryngeal mask airways are effective ventilator devices with distinctive designs that may require different anaesthetics for insertion.
Cristina Monteserín-Matesanz, Tatiana González, María José Anadón-Baselga, Matilde Zaballos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oxygen supplementation before induction of general anaesthesia in horses [PDF]

, 2017
REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY: Hypoventilation or apnoea, caused by the induction of general anaesthesia, may cause hypoxaemia. Pre-oxygenation may lengthen the period before this happens.
Briganti, Costa-Farré, Harrison, Haskins, Hedenstierna, Luna, Mosing, Paterson, Pelletier, Poole, Wilson   +10 more
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IS SPINAL ANAESTHESIA A CONVIENIENT OPTION FOR LOWER SEGMENT CAESAREAN SECTION IN MODERATE TO SEVERE PREECLAPSIA IN PATIENTS WITH NORMAL BLOOD INDICIES? [PDF]

Basrah Journal of Surgery, 2015
Caesarean section is a common technique of terminating pregnancy in pre-eclamptic patients. The anaesthesiologists are more possible to face a difficult airway in a pre-eclamptic patient.
Nawfal Ali Mubarak
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling general anaesthesia as a first-order phase transition in the cortex [PDF]

, 2004
Since 1997 we have been developing a theoretical foundation for general anaesthesia. We have been able to demonstrate that the abrupt change in brain state broughton by anaesthetic drugs can be characterized as a first-order phase transition in the ...
Sleigh, James W., Steyn-Ross, D. Alistair, Steyn-Ross, Moira L.   +2 more
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The impact of spinal anaesthesia on perioperative opioid consumption, postoperative pain and oncological outcome in radical retropubic prostatectomy—a retrospective before-and-after effectiveness study

Perioperative Medicine, 2022
Background Spinal anaesthesia preceding general anaesthesia has been conducted for open radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) to decrease immediate postoperative pain for many years.
Sandra Funcke, Xenia Schick-Bengardt, Hans O. Pinnschmidt, Burkhard Beyer, Marlene Fischer, Ursula Kahl, Rainer Nitzschke   +6 more
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Quantifying influence of epidural analgesia on entropy guided general anaesthesia using sevoflurane – A randomised controlled trial

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2020
Background and Aims: Minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of inhalational agent denotes the requirement of it to maintain adequate plane of general anaesthesia.
Murugesan Ravishankar, Dalena Merin Mathew, V R Hemanthkumar, Parthasarathy Srinivasan   +3 more
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