Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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To evaluate the effectiveness of prehospital medical care in head-injured patients. ⋯ Respect of guidelines is important to improve medical care. Prehospital management corrected hypoxemia but not hypotension. The lack of osmotherapy after mydriasis cannot be explained and is probably an error. Patient route must be simplified to decrease time delay from field to hospital. Improvement in prehospital care may decrease mortality in head-injured patients.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Feb 2004
Case Reports[Peri-operative anticoagulation with danaparoid for a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia].
We report a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome revealing a polycythemia vera and complicated by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. A surgical porto-caval shunt was inserted with danaparoid as anticoagulant during the peri-operative period. The doses of danaparoid were as follows: a continuous intravenous infusion of 200 U/h with a target between 0.5 et 0.8 U/ml antifactor Xa activity during the preoperative period, followed by 100 U/h with a target of 0.3 U/ml during the peroperative period; an increase in doses of danaparoid to 150 and 200 U/h with a target above 0.5 U/ml was used during the postoperative period. This case report is a rare situation of hypercoagulable state, in a surgical context, treated with danaparoid.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Feb 2004
[Completeness of ICU activity reports sent to French healthcare authorities].
Hospital units report on their inpatient care activity by writing yearly activity reports, which are used by their Medical Information Department (MID) to develop standardized summaries for communication to healthcare authorities. The data are categorized by uniform patient groups and used to describe inpatient care activity and to guide resource allocation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the completeness of activity reports from intensive care units (ICUs) in France. ⋯ The analysis of this national database shows that data communicated to the MIDs and therefore to the healthcare authorities, are incomplete regarding SAPSII, ICU procedures, treatment intensity, and diagnoses. This may lead to the underestimation of ICU activity and resource needs, particularly if the SAPSII and selected procedures identified as markers for high-intensity critical care are used in the future.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Feb 2004
[Anaesthesia and obstetrics: the role of the French 1998 laws in childbirth safety].
Introduction of new legal texts in 1994-1995 has certainly contributed to the improved safety of anaesthesia practice in France. More recently also legal texts have been published in this country to improve the practice of obstetrics. These two series of texts have had a significant impact on obstetric anaesthesia, improving care directly related to anaesthesia practice (such as visit with an anaesthetist during pregnancy for every patient) but also care of patients with maternal disease through the implementation of regionalisation and of perinatal networks. ⋯ High-level perinatal centres should thus be able to care for both the mother and the neonate. Alternatively, when not feasible, specific rules or protocols should be made available to optimize the transfer while taking into account the severity of maternal disease. All these continuing improvements will however be possible only if shortage of specialists of perinatal care stops.