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Del 20 - Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology
Regional Opioid Analgesia
Physiopharmacological Basis, Drugs, Equipment and Clinical Application
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
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by E.K. ZSIGMOND, M.D. Department of Anesthesiology University of Illinois Chicago U.S.A. It is, indeed, a distinct honor and privilege to be invited by the authors to write a preface to this monumental monograph, Regional Opioid Analgesia. Regional Opioid Analgesia is a colossal undertaking by Drs. De Castro, Meynadier and Zenz shortly after the introduction of this revolutionary approach to pain relief which opened a new epoch in analgesiology. This is, indeed, the first authentic and comprehensive textbook encompassing the current knowl edge on this novel approach to pain relief. We are indebted to the authors for introducing the new opioids to regional analgesia with the scientists, who de veloped the potent short and ultrashort acting opioids with high therapeutic indices, which many researchers dreamt about but never before materialized. The side effect liabilities of these new opioids are minute as compared to morphine and meperidine. Regional Opioid Analgesia could not have been more authentically written than by Drs. De Castro,Zenz and Meynadier,who have conducted daily clinical investigations on all known opioids for regional analgesia as well as for neurolept analgesia. Therein lies the great value of this monograph: it is the most authentic work on this topic.
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In spite of today's increasing body of knowledge in regard to central nervous func tion and/or the mode of action of centrally active compounds, little is done to monitor those patients which are at risk of cerebral lesions either in the OR or in the ICU. Due to the inconsistency of reports regarding the application and the benefits computerized EEG and/or evoked potential monitoring will bring to the clinician, physicians still are reluctant to get involved with a technique, which they think, will have little or no effect on the outcome of a patients well being. However, due to the development in computer technology, data acquisition and comprehension, it now is possible to monitor such a viable organ as the Central Nervous System (CNS) on a routine base without being a specialist in neurology or electroencephalography. Thus, the book is intended to guide the clinician to use BEG and evoked potential monitoring in a day to day situation, without going too deep into technical details. As an improvement of cerebral care is needed, various representative cases underline the interpretation of EEG power spectra and evoked potential changes in regard to the underlying clinical situation. It is hoped that this book will serve as a guide to anyone who considers cerebral monitoring a necessity in today's patient care. This may be the anesthesiologist, the intensive care therapist, the nurse anesthetist as well as the medical personnel in the lCU setting.
Anesthesiology and the Heart
Annual Utah Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology 1990
Inbunden, Engelska, 1990
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Theodore H. Stanley, M. D. Anesthesiology and the Heart contains the Refresher Course manuscripts of the presentations of the 35th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology which took place at The Cliff Conference Center in Snowbird, Utah, February 16-20, 1990. The chapters reflect new data and concepts within the general framework of "evaluating myocardial function," "pharmacology and the cardiac patient," "anesthesia for patients with cardiac disease," and "stress, cardiopulmonary bypass, coagulation problems and related issues. " The purposes of the textbook are to 1) act as a reference for the anesthesiologists attending the meeting, and 2) serve as a vehicle to bring many of the latest concepts in anesthesiology to others within a short time of the formal presentation. Each chapter is a brief but sharply focused glimpse of the interests in anesthesia expressed at the conference. This book and its chapters should not be considered complete treatises on the subjects addressed but rather attempts to summarize the most salient points. This textbook is the eighth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course in Salt Lake City. We hope that this and the past and future volumes reflect the rapid and continuing evolution of anesthesiology in the late twentieth century. vii LIST OF CoNTIUBUTDRS Bailey, P. L. Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, U. S. A. Barash, P. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, U. S. A. Covino, B. G.
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Intensive Care Medicine has been continuously growing and expanding, culturally, technically and geographically. I am particularly happy that this work has mainly developed within the European Society of Intensive Care, whose final target is to ensure a common standard of therapy in our old Europe, beyond national differences.
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Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Inbunden, Engelska, 1990
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Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Basbaum, Allan Department of Anatomy & Physiology, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, California Bonica, John J.
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"Anaesthesia and the Lung 1992" presents recent advances in the diagnosis, pre-, intra-, and postoperative anaesthetic management of patients with lung disease, presenting for pulmonary and non-pulmonary surgery. It also deals with ventilation - perfusion issues, the lung as a metabolic organ, the effects of anaesthesia on pulmonary mechanics and pulmonary blood flow. In addition, there are chapters that focus on hypoxia; regional differences in the lung; pulmonary surfactant; recent advances in the understanding of pulmonary edema; high altitude disease; anaesthesia and the control of breathing; recent development in oximetry; instrumentation designed to measure pulmonary oxygen tension, pO2 and pCO2 transcutaneously; differential lung ventilation; reactive airways; septic shock; the adult respiratory distress syndrome and numerous aspects of ventilatory support.
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Despite numerous reports of cerebral damage in cardiac surgery, the subject has not been given the attention it requires. This book with a preface by Torkel Aberg, will remedy that situation. The causes and incidence of pre- and post-operative cerebral damage are considered in the first section. Cardiac surgery patients frequently have "preoperative" cerebral impairment, not surprising when one considers the impaired circulation from a damaged heart and the brain's prodigious need for blood. Moreover, several perioperative aspects of surgical procedures have been considered as possible causes of cerebral dysfunction, for example: microbubbles, toxic by-products, non-pulsatile blood flow. The second section describes how "imaging techniques" (CT scan, MRI, regional cerebral blood flow imaging), and "functional assessment" techniques, (Pet scan, EEG, BEAM and evoked potentials) can be used to measure cerebral damage. In the third section, psychometric and neuropsychological techniques are used to assess impaired mental abilities (abstract thinking, language, memory, visuo-spatial ability, mental flexibility, attention and concentration).The final section explores the relationship between cerebral dysfunction and psychopathology (several types of depression, anxiety, and aspects of organic brain syndrome, delirium and dementia).
Anesthesia and the Central Nervous System
Papers presented at the 38th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 19–23, 1993
Inbunden, Engelska, 1993
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"Anaesthesia and the Central Nervous System", is a textbook for a postgraduate course as well as a reference for all anaesthesiologists which presents many of the latest concepts in anaesthesiology within a brief formal presentation. An outstanding faculty presents topics relating to the biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology of the nervous system, the anaesthetic management of intracranial and spinal cord surgery, and the intensive care management of central nervous system disease. Each chapter is a brief but sharply focused glimpse of the interests in anaesthesia. This textbook is the eleventh in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course in Salt Lake City.
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This text contains the edited presentations of the 39th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesiology, February 1994. The chapters reflect new data concepts within the general framework of pain research and basic science, and clinical topics in pain management. The purpose of the textbook is to serve as a vehicle to bring many of the latest concepts in anaesthesiology to those who did not attend the conference, within a short time of the formal presentation. Each chapter is a brief by sharply focused glimpse of the current interests in anaesthesia. This volume, as well as past and future volumes, reflects the rapid and continuing evolution of anaesthestiology in the late-20th century.
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This volume comprises the edited presentations of the 40th Annual Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesiology, February 1995. It reflects recent advances in this area. Obstetrical and paediatric patients constitute important and often challenging cases for the practicing anesthesiologist. This textbook is the 13th in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Anesthesiology and the Cardiovascular Patient
Papers presented at the 41st Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1996
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
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This work contains the edited presentations of the 41st Annual Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesiology, February 1996. The chapters reflect data and concepts within the general framework of the pathophysiology and management of surgical candidates with cardiovascular disease. The textbook should serve as a vehicle to bring many of the latest concepts in anaesthesiology to those who did not attend the conference. Each chapter focuses on areas of interest in anaesthesia. This volume, as well as past and future volumes, reflects the rapid and continuing evolution of anaesthesiology in the late 20th century.
Neuroanesthesia
Papers presented at the 42nd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1997
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
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Neuroanesthesia contains the edited presentations of the 42nd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology given by the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, February 1997. The chapters reflect recent advances in neurophysiology, pharmacology and monitoring related to the practice of neuroanesthesiology. The sections on central nervous system trauma, intraoperative management, brain protection and postoperative care provide a conceptual framework for current clinical practices. This textbook is the fifteenth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Utah School of Medicine. It reflects, as well as past and future volumes, the rapid and continuing evolution of anesthesia in the last years of the twentieth century.
Pain Management and Anesthesiology
Papers presented at the 43rd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology, February 1998
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
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This text contains the presentations made at the 43rd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesiology sponsored by the University of Utah and held at Snowbird, Utah, USA, February 20-24, 1998. The volume addresses recent advances in the understanding of the basic science and clinical management of pain. The textbook includes sections on recent advances in the understanding of pain signal processing, as well as reviews of the clinical management of acute, chronic, cancer-related, and paediatric pain. In addition, this text includes a discussion of the behavioural assessment and treatment of the pain patient. This textbook is the 16th in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the postgraduate course.
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This text contains the refresher course lectures of the 1999 meeting, and provides a review of the state of the art in anesthesia clinical pharmacology. The authors of the individual chapters are recognized experts in the pharmacology of perioperative medicine. The book features sections on pharmacology concepts, drug delivery techniques, the latest drugs, and novel thinking about older drugs. It also addresses several areas that have emerged as very hot clinical and research topics, including depth of anesthesia monitoring technology and anesthesia drug interactions.
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What’s New in Anesthesiology
Inbunden, Engelska, 1988
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Theodore H. Stanley, M. D. What's New in, Anesthesiology in 1988 contains the Refresher Course manuscripts of the presentations of the 33rd Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology which took place at the Marriott Hotel Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 19-23, 1988. The chapters reflect new data, ideas and concepts within the general framework of most recent developments in "evaluation and monitoring cardiac function before, during and after surgery," "new anesthetics and their actions on the heart and peripheral vasculature, and other organ systems," "metabolism and elimination of anesthetics and anesthetic adjuvants," and "recent developments in the anesthetic management of patients with congenital heart disease, renal and pulmonary dysfunction, and diabetes insipidus. " In addition, there are chapters on new developments in "obstetrics," "regional anesthesia," and "anesthetic management of the newborn. " The purposes of the textbook are to 1) act as a reference for the anesthesio logists attending the meeting, and,2) serve as a vehicle to bring many of the latest concepts in anesthesiology to others within a short time of the formal presentation. Each chapter is a brief but sharply focused glimpse of the interests in anesthesia expressed at the conference. This book and its chapters should not be considered complete treatises on the subjects addressed but rather attempts to summarize the most salient points. This textbook is the sixth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course in Salt Lake City.
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Perspectives in High Frequency Ventilation
Proceedings of the international symposium held at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 17–18 September 1982
Inbunden, Engelska, 1983
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XIII List of contributors A. Experimental studies A simple mathematical model of High Frequency Ventilation. 1 A. Versprille. Development and clinical application of High Frequency Ventilation. 12 U.H. Sjostrand- L. Bunegin, R.B. Smith, ~i.F. Babinski. Convective diffusion in oscillatory flow as a gas transport 39 mechanism during High Frequency Ventilation. H.J. van Ouwerkerk, P. Gieles, J.M. Bogaard. Pressure flow pattern and gas transport using various types of 51 High Frequency Ventilation. M. Baum, H. Benzer, W. Goldschmied, N. Mutz. A review of experimental and theoretical studies of High Frequency 59 Ventilation. A.S. Slutsky, R.D. Kamm, J.M. Drazen. Effects of High Frequency Jet Ventilation design and operational 71 variables upon arterial blood gas tensions. J.M. Calkins, C.K. Waterson, S.F. Quan, H.W. Militzer, Th.J. Conahan, C.W. Otto, S.R. Hameroff. Airway pressure as a determining factor for ventilation and 81 haemodynamic efficiency during HFJV. M. Jimenez Lendinez, J.A. Cambronero, J. Lopez, B. Galvan, A. Garcia, R. Denia, A. Aguado. B. Experimental studies and mechanics High Frequency Ventilation: an experimental comparison of HFPPV 87 and HFJV. U.H. Sjostrand, M.F.Babinski, U.R. Borg, R.B. Smith. VI 92 Alveolar pressures during High Frequency Ventilation. P.R. Fletcher. Carbon dioxide clearance during High Frequency Jet Ventilation 93 (HFJV) . J.L. Bourgain, A.J. Mortimer, M.K. Sykes. 105 Hemodynamic effects of High Frequency Ventilation. F.R. Gioia, A.P. Harris, R.J. Traystman, M.C. Rogers.
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Theodore H. Stanley, M.D. W. Clayton Petty, M.D. Anesthesiology 1986 contains the Refresher Course manuscripts of the presentations of the 31st Annual Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology which took place at the Westin Hotel Utah Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 14-18, 1986. The chapters reflect recent and future developments in anesthetic techniques, monitoring instruments and devices, and anesthetic drugs. The purposes of the textbook are to 1) act as a reference for the anesthesiologists attending the meeting, and 2) serve as a vehi cl e to bri ng many of the 1 atest concepts in anesthesiology to others within a short time of the formal presentation. Each chapter is a brief but sharply focused glimpse of the interests in anesthesi a expressed at the conference. Thi s book and its chapters should not be considered complete treatises on the subjects addressed but rather attempts to summarlze the most salient points. This textbook is the fourth in a continuing series documenting the proceedings of the Postgraduate Course in Salt Lake City. We hope that this and the past and future volumes reflect the rapid and continuing evolution of anesthesiology in the late twentieth century. TABLE OF CONTENTS PHARMACOLOGY The New Neuromusucular Blocking Agents D. Ryan Cook, M.D.
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This treatise commemorates the 32nd anniversary of the first successful allogenic kidney transplant in a human being and the beginning of a con tinuing challenge for well over a generation of anesthesiologists. If compari sons can be permitted, this epoch-making event can be ranked with the first pulmonary lobectomy and subsequently the initial ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus in the late 1930s when thoracic and cardiac surgery began. Was it merely a coincidence that brought these events to the fore so close upon one another after many years of ideation and frustration? Not so, according to Lewis Thomas, for this was the time of medicine's second revolution-its transformation from an empirical art into a powerfully effective science. The remote Galenic conception of disease with its emphasis on disturbed body humors was about to be supplanted by effective therapeutics, as signified by the introduction of the sulfonamides and antibiotics for the specific treatment of infection. Anesthesiology had been dormant up to that era, still relying upon a few agents, more or less utilized from the beginning, and purveyed by a handful of specialists who had not yet begun to ask the scientific questions necessary for their maturation into a bona fide discipline. However, anesthesiology was in evitably caught in the ferment, for as Peter Caws observed, "It serves to re mind us that the development of science is a step-wise process: nobody starts from scratch and nobody gets very far ahead of the rest.
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Transesophageal Echocardiography
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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Since images obtained by transesophageal echo cardiography are uniformly of excellent quality, it extends the diagnostic potential of echocardiography to the patient who is difficult to image from the conventional chest wall approach.
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This treatise commemorates the 32nd anniversary of the first successful allogenic kidney transplant in a human being and the beginning of a con tinuing challenge for well over a generation of anesthesiologists.
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New Anesthetic Agents, Devices and Monitoring Techniques
Annual Utah Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology 1983
Inbunden, Engelska, 1983
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Current Concepts in Regional Anaesthesia
Proceedings of the second general meeting of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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This book contains the papers that were presented at the 2nd general meeting of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (E. S. R. A. ) which was held in Leiden on September 1st, 2nd and 3rd 1983. During the meeting a fruitful exchange of knowledge was initiated which I hope will lead to further inspiration and research. The book covers the following topics: Special Blocks Obstetric Pathology Epidural versus Spinal Anaesthesia (Postoperative) Pain Control I would like to express my gratitude to all the speakers who sent their manuscripts in time for publishing. I should also like to thank the co-editors of this book, as well as mr B. F. Commandeur, from Martinus Nijhoff Publishers for their cooperation. Finally I should like to express my gratitude especially to Mrs J. I. Tieleman-Shamir for all her secretarial work, and to Miss M. P. M. Toelen for typing a good number of the manuscripts. Jack w. van Kleef VII CONTENTS Preface v Faculty XI Multiple intercostal blocks by a singe injection? -A clinical and radiological investigation H. Renck. A. Johansson, P. Aspelin and H. Jacobsen An alternative method of intercostal block. (studies of the use of the jet injector) 8 S. J.Seddon The mixed lumbar - lumbosacral or psoas compartment block 14 J. T. A. Knape Transsacral block 23 H. U. Gerbershagen, D. H. Frohneberg, Ch. Parihans and H. Waisbrod Regional block in children 32 o. Schulte-Steinberg Coeliac plexus block 42 D. C. Moore Sympathetic dystrophies: i. v.
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Critical Care of the Child
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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This volume represents a review of recent work presented by eminent scientists at the Second International Symposium on 'Applied Physiology in Critical Care with Emphasis on Children' at Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, November 28 - 2 December, 1983. We are grateful to the keynote speakers who accepted our invitation and completed their chapters in time for the press. I must thank the Government of Aruba, the Tourist Office of Aruba, Mr Frank Croes and Mr Betico Croes for their support and generosity for organizing this symposium. My sincere thanks go to Mr Rory Arends, Lucy Arends, Simon Meij and Norma van Toornburg for their untiring efforts and cooperation. Omar Prakash, MD IX List of contributors Bryan, A.Ch., MB, BS, PhD, FRCP (C), The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8 Bryan, H., MD, Department of Pediatrics, Room 1241, Mount Sinai Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X5 co-authors: A.L. Campbell, Y. Zarfin, M. Groenveld, P. Duffty Enhorning, G., MD, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8 Gross, I., MD, Perinatal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O.
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Clinical Management of Electrolyte Disorders
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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Serious disturbances of fluid and electrolyte balance are frequently encountered in acutely ill patients; somewhat less often in the chronically sick. There seems to be a trend for such cases to increase, due probably to an increase in major surgical procedures on older patients whose renal function is less than adequate. There are already many publications dealing with the physiology of the homeo stasis of fluid and electrolytes, and others dealing with the clinical aspects of the subject. It is often assumed that a knowledge of the basic principles of physiology will enable the doctor to prescribe suitable intravenous therapy. In practice this is often found not to be so and the evidence for this is the frequency of calls for help with electrolyte problems from well-qualified and experienced doctors who are undoubtedly equipped with adequate or even excellent knowledge of the basic It is not an unusual observation that knowledge of theory and principles involved. principles does not necessarily lead to successful practice in this or any other art or craft. Most doctors already possess knowledge of the physiology of the internal envi ronment, but some are aware of being unable to deal effectively with clinical problems related to fluid and electrolyte disturbances and seek guidance to translate theoretical knowledge into practice.
Perspectives in High Frequency Ventilation
Proceedings of the international symposium held at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 17–18 September 1982
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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XIII List of contributors A. Experimental studies A simple mathematical model of High Frequency Ventilation. 1 A. Versprille. Development and clinical application of High Frequency Ventilation. 12 U.H. Sjostrand- L. Bunegin, R.B. Smith, ~i.F. Babinski. Convective diffusion in oscillatory flow as a gas transport 39 mechanism during High Frequency Ventilation. H.J. van Ouwerkerk, P. Gieles, J.M. Bogaard. Pressure flow pattern and gas transport using various types of 51 High Frequency Ventilation. M. Baum, H. Benzer, W. Goldschmied, N. Mutz. A review of experimental and theoretical studies of High Frequency 59 Ventilation. A.S. Slutsky, R.D. Kamm, J.M. Drazen. Effects of High Frequency Jet Ventilation design and operational 71 variables upon arterial blood gas tensions. J.M. Calkins, C.K. Waterson, S.F. Quan, H.W. Militzer, Th.J. Conahan, C.W. Otto, S.R. Hameroff. Airway pressure as a determining factor for ventilation and 81 haemodynamic efficiency during HFJV. M. Jimenez Lendinez, J.A. Cambronero, J. Lopez, B. Galvan, A. Garcia, R. Denia, A. Aguado. B. Experimental studies and mechanics High Frequency Ventilation: an experimental comparison of HFPPV 87 and HFJV. U.H. Sjostrand, M.F.Babinski, U.R. Borg, R.B. Smith. VI 92 Alveolar pressures during High Frequency Ventilation. P.R. Fletcher. Carbon dioxide clearance during High Frequency Jet Ventilation 93 (HFJV) . J.L. Bourgain, A.J. Mortimer, M.K. Sykes. 105 Hemodynamic effects of High Frequency Ventilation. F.R. Gioia, A.P. Harris, R.J. Traystman, M.C. Rogers.
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Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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There is a tendency of an increasing number of signals and derived variables to be incorporated in the monitoring of patients during anesthesia and in intensive care units. The addition of new signals hardly ever leads to thedeletion of other signals. This is probably based on a feeling of insecurity. We must realize that each new signal that is being monitored brings along its cost, in terms of risk to the patient, investment and time. It is therefore essential to assess the relative contribution of this new signal to the quality of the monitoring process; i. e. given the set of signals already in use, what is the improvement when a new signal is added? Beyond a certain point the addition of new information leads to new uncertainty and degrades the result (Ream, 1981) In the diagnostic process, it is possible to evaluate "result" in an objective, qualitative way. The changes in the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnosis as a result of the addition or deletion of a certain variable can be calculated on the basis of false negative, false positive, correct negative and false negative scores. Different methods for multiple regression analysis have been implemented on computers (Gelsema, 1981) which can support such decision processes. In monitoring, the situation is much more complex. Many definitions of monitoring have been given; the common denominator is that monitoring is a continuous diagnostic process based upon a (semi)continuous flow of information. This makes simple assessment methods useless.
New Anesthetic Agents, Devices and Monitoring Techniques
Annual Utah Postgraduate Course in Anesthesiology 1983
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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