To investigate the efficacy of midazolam (Dormicum; Roche) as a paediatric premedication, 150 children, aged 6 months - 5 years, were divided into three groups. All three groups spent time with the anaesthetist to allow ...

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 ...

Prostacyclin (PGI2) appears to be synthesized in the lungs of man and experimental animals. It has been stated that PGI2 must be regarded as a local hormone that inhibits platelet adhesion to vessel walls only very close ...

Two hundred and eleven children aged 1 - 5 years were studied after undergoing herniorrhaphy or orchiopexy. In 111 cases a caudal block was used for postoperative analgesia. This was administered immediately after induction ...

The sympathetic response to laryngoscopy and intubation was studied in 39 patients who were to undergo surgical clipping of a cerebral aneurysm. Intravascular radial artery pressure and ECG monitoring for ST-segment changes ...

A 44-year-old white woman with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease underwent an abdominal hysterectomy. The pre-operative preparation and anaesthetic management are presented, and the specific problems discussed.

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 ...