Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Chronic postoperative pain is a well-recognized problem after amputation, thoracotomy, mastectomy and inguinal hernia repair but has not been well evaluated after obstetric surgery. ⋯ The occurrence of chronic pain after cesarean section may be frequent and can be responsible for an impaired quality of life.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2013
Impact of noradrenaline infusion set on mean arterial pressure: A retrospective clinical study.
Noradrenaline (NA) can be infused through various systems including single or double syringe pumps. The aim of this study was to define the best and most efficient infusion system in an emergency context. ⋯ The use of a double syringe pump system associated with a very low dead-space volume infusion set appears to be the most appropriate system for NA infusion.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2013
Observational Study[Economic impact of strategies using ephedrine prefilled syringes.]
Ephedrine is an emergency drug available in ampules and syringes need to be prepared in advance according to one of two strategies in our establishment: strategy 1 (S1: 1 ampule per patient) and strategy 2 (S2: 1 ampule per operating room). There are also prefilled syringes. Because of their high cost and conflicting results in the literature, we assessed the economic interest of using prefilled syringes compared with strategies S1 and S2. ⋯ The interest of our study is that we investigated different supply strategies for ephedrine within a large number of operating rooms. In our establishment, it was decided to use prefilled syringes in operating rooms that used S1. As well as the economic interest, prefilled syringes contributed to improved safety and saved nursing time.
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Women who are carriers for hemophilia are usually considered as safe carriers. However, they can present hemorragic symptoms associated with low factor VIII or IX levels. During pregancy, factor VIII increases whereas factor IX does not. ⋯ Factor IX does not really increase during pregancy and hemorrage can occur. Epidural and spinal anesthesia seem to be contraindicated as far as recommandations are concerned. Coagulation factor substitution is a mean of increasing factor level before these anaesthesias and can be discussed for each case.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2013
Case Reports[Traumatic injuries of the descending thoracic aorta apart from the isthmus: Diagnosis and therapeutic approach.]
Lesions involving the descending thoracic aorta apart from isthmus are rare and less known by anesthetists. We report the clinical course of two severely injured patients who sustained a thoracic aortic rupture in whom favorable outcome was achieved with endovascular treatment. Mechanisms, diagnosis and therapeutics aspects of these rare lesions are discussed according to literature.