In a premedication study involving 135 children, aged 1-10 years, four regimens were investigated: (i) no premedication; (ii) oral trimeprazine tartrate 2 mg/kg, methadone 0.1 mg/kg, droperidol 0.15 mg/kg (TMD); (iii) ...

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Objective. To evaluate the effect of nitric oxide (NO) on acute pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular function in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Design. A prospective clinical study. Patients. ...

The findings of specialist anaesthetists on visits to rural towns in the western Cape over 6 years are reported. The importance of academic units communicating with general practitioners, nursing staff and hospital authorities ...

This study reports on the process of peer review of peri-operative mortality at Tygerberg Hospital. The peri-operative mortality rate for the past 3,5 years was 11,9/10000. The departmental evaluation committee thought ...

The value of preoperative lung function tests was examined in 11 patients as a method to predict changes in intraoperative PaO2 (dPaO2) during one-lung ventilation in pulmonary surgery. Ventilation (Kr-81m and Xe-133) and ...

This study examined the effect of intravenous magnesium on the reperfusion injury of the porcine myocardium. Animals received general anaesthesia and the left anterior descending coronary artery was occluded for 15 minutes. ...

This study examined the effect of various doses of magnesium sulphate on the reperfusion injury in patients subjected to coronary artery bypass surgery. Intravenous magnesium sulphate (0, 2, 4 and 6 g) was administered ...