Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1997
[Intracranial pressure monitoring in France, and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. Retrospective and prospective survey].
To assess the use of ICP monitoring in France and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. ⋯ ICP monitoring is widely practised in France and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland, especially for traumatic brain injury in young males. Anaesthetists mainly took part in the operation, especially for the fibreoptic devices.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1997
[Ambulatory anesthesia practice in a University Hospital Center: what is done; what could be done. Ambulatory Anesthesia Study Group].
To estimate the number and type of patients, who could be managed on a day-care basis in a University Hospital. Cases of ambulatory anaesthesia (AA) which could be managed in optimal conditions and current AA practice. To assess patients' opinion on inpatient or outpatient practices. ⋯ At the time of this survey only one fourth of the possible oupatients for AA had in fact been treated on a day-case basis. Its development requires an improvement of the structures, team organisation and patients' information.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1997
Review[How to demonstrate, correct and prevent tissue hypoxia in intensive care patients? 3rd European Consensus Conference on intensive care organized by the French Language Intensive Care Society with the American Thoracic Society and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Versailles, December 7-8, 1995].
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1997
[Use of Glasgow coma scale by anesthesia and intensive care internists in brain injured patients].
To evaluate the quality and reliability of the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score when determined, in head trauma patients, by trainees in anaesthesiology. ⋯ In order to provide optimal care and allow an accurate assessment of therapeutic efficiency, special attention should be given to the teaching of the GCS scoring method in head trauma patients.
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We report two cases of tetraplegia caused by cervical stab wounds. In the first one, in a 34-year-old patient, the injury caused an immediate tetraplegia from cervical spine section and had a rapid lethal outcome. The second case occurred in a 30-year-old woman, who experienced a progressive tetraplegia associated with a Brown-Séquard syndrome from an oedema of the bulbo-spinal junction. Three months later, the motor recovery was satisfactory, however a thermo-algesic hemi-anaesthesia still persisted after the 6th month.