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South African Medical Journal, 2023 The illegal practice of combining organophosphates (OPs) with other compounds such as carbamates and pyrethroids, creating ‘streetpesticides’, is common in South Africa. These agents contain mostly unknown quantities of unregulated toxins and contribute
F Uys, M O’Neill, Z Farina, J Belford
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Regional anaesthesia: risk, consent and complications
Anaesthesia, 2021 The risks of regional anaesthesia relate primarily to the technical nature of the procedure, chief among them being neurological. While rare, the direct relationship between nerve damage and the procedure itself means that patients need to be aware of ...
K. McCombe, D. Bogod
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Regional anaesthesia in patients with diabetes
Anaesthesia, 2021 Diabetes is the most common metabolic condition worldwide and about 20% of surgical patients will have this condition. It is a major risk‐factor for worse outcomes after surgery including mortality; infective and non‐infective complications; and ...
N. Levy, P. Lirk
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Future directions in regional anaesthesia: not just for the cognoscenti
Anaesthesia, 2020 We thank Turbitt et al. for their recent editorial on rationalising teaching of block diversity [1]. As regional anaesthesia fellows at a large London teaching hospital, we are both regional anaesthesia learners and, increasingly, regional anaesthesia ...
T. Ashken, M. H. W. Thompson
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The Relevance of Regional Anesthesia in Orthopaedic Surgery: Concepts and techniques. [PDF]
, 2018 Before the advent of anaesthesia in surgical practice, surgeons battled with patient’s maximal co-operation during surgical procedures, management of pain intra-operatively and post-operatively.
Ibeanusi, Sydney, Obalum, Dike
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NuCLS: A scalable crowdsourcing, deep learning approach and dataset for nucleus classification, localization and segmentation [PDF]
GigaScience, 11 (2022), 2021 High-resolution mapping of cells and tissue structures provides a foundation for developing interpretable machine-learning models for computational pathology. Deep learning algorithms can provide accurate mappings given large numbers of labeled instances for training and validation. Generating adequate volume of quality labels has emerged as a critical
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Anaesthesia, 2021 Improvement in healthcare delivery depends on the ability to measure outcomes that can direct changes in the system. An overview of quality indicators within the field of regional anaesthesia is lacking.
G. Hamilton +4 more
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Orthopaedic anaesthesia for upper extremity procedures in a Nigerian hospital [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundGeneral anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia have been used successfully for upper extremity orthopaedic procedures. Despite the advantages of regional anaesthesia, there is low utilisation in Nigeria.
Alonge, TO, Fatiregun, A, Rukewe, A
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BMC Anesthesiology, 2021 Background It is debatable whether opioid-free anaesthesia (OFA) is better suited than multimodal analgesia (MMA) to achieve the goals of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Mohamed Ibrahim +4 more
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Does anaesthesia cause postoperative cognitive dysfunction? A randomised study of regional versus general anaesthesia in 438 elderly patients [PDF]
, 2003 Keywords:anesthesia;cognitive function;complications;postoperative period;regional anesthesia;surgery Background: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a common complication after cardiac and major non-cardiac surgery with general anaesthesia in ...
Abildstrom, H. +17 more
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