Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Apr 2003
[Evaluation of a medical equipment checklist before intensive care room opening].
To describe and to assess the effectiveness of a checklist concerning the intensive care rooms' equipment before patients' admission. ⋯ The routine use of ROC has improved the adequacy of the ICU room's equipment endowment in our intensive care units.
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Define the pressure-volume relationship of the cuff of paediatric cuffed tracheal tubes. ⋯ The margin of safety provided by cuff of smallest cuffed tracheal tubes is too small. Then, the smallest sizes (3.0 to 4.5) should not be called low pressure-high volume cuff.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Apr 2003
[Use of a hand-held computer to optimize red blood cells transfusion prescription].
Referring to blood transfusion ANAES guidelines, the authors designed an application running on palm-held computer (Psion 5mx) devoted to optimise bedside transfusion prescription, which can offer both integration of usual calculations concerning red blood cells needs, O2 arterial delivery (40 Ko) and guidelines full text in a compact data base format (190 Ko). Interest of this concept intended to improve patient care management is discussed.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Apr 2003
Case Reports[Tracheo-oesophageal fistula. A rare complication of percutaneous tracheostomy].
Percutaneous tracheostomy is more and more used in the intensive care units. However, it's not devoid of risks. ⋯ During the procedure, difficulties occurred during the insertion of the cannula. This case report reminds the importance of a peroperative continuous endoscopic guidance and the need of a rigorous learning.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Apr 2003
Case Reports[Subdural haemorrhage following lumbar spinal drainage during repair of thoraco-abdominal aneurysm].
Physicians in charge of patients undergoing thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aneurysmectomy, frequently use lumbar spinal drainage of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to prevent paraplegia. Whereas the profit of this technique is a much debated question, we report 2 case reports of delayed sub-dural hemorrhage, after lumbar spinal drainage of CSF. Cross clamping of the aorta decreases the spinal cord artery pressure, increases the cerebral pressure and by alterations of distribution of the venous return, is responsible for an increase of the CSF pressure. ⋯ The two case reports have to be added to the liability of a method of prevention that, as attractive that it is, did not give the proof of its efficiency to decrease the frequency and/or the severity of paraplegia after thoracic or thoraco-abdominal aneurysmectomy. At this time, this technique should be reserved to the patients with documented risk, as it is possible using preoperative spinal cord arteriography. The insertion and the withdrawal of the catheter must be done in the usual conditions of medullar puncture with regard to anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents