Anaesthesia and intensive care
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Jul 2014
Biography Historical ArticleDr Pugh and the myth of the illicit still.
In her valuable history of the arrival of the news of etherisation in Australia and its implementation by many doctors and dentists, titled One Grand Chain, the late Dr Gwen Wilson asserted that the dentist and the doctor who pioneered etherisation in Australia, "Belisario and Pugh, …were charged by the authorities with possession of an illicit still." This paper examines the evidence for the truth or otherwise of this assertion, in relation to Dr Pugh.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Jul 2014
Does diabetic status in the ICU predict haemofiltration requirement? The Haemofiltration in the ICU and Diabetic Status (HIDS) Study.
Diabetes is already a major health burden and prevalence is expected to double by 2025. The impact of diabetes and clinical outcomes in the intensive care unit is an evolving area of research. This study seeks to identify whether diabetic status is an independent risk factor for haemofiltration. ⋯ After exclusion criteria there were 7262 patients, 1674 with a history of diabetes (median age of 69, 66.72% male) and 5588 without a history of diabetes (median age 64, 64.13% male). Diabetic status was an independent risk factor (odds ratio 1.401, 95% confidence interval 1.079 to 1.820, P=0.011) for haemofiltration. Further research may identify intensive care unit-based renoprotective measures specifically for patients with diabetes.
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"Those wonderful huts…" (Florence Nightingale). This is the story of the British Civil Hospital, erected in 1855 at Renkioi on the south Dardanelles coast of Turkey. The spectacular hospital was a portable one designed by British engineer IK Brunel. It was his only health-related project, and it was known as a Civil Hospital because its staff were all civilians, despite its patients being military.
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Eugène-Louis Doyen published illustrations of two pharyngeal tubes in his five-volume surgical textbook, Traité de Thérapeutique Chirurgicale et de Technique Opératoire. The first volume of Doyen's textbook was published in 1908 and it contains the earliest known illustration of one of Doyen's pharyngeal tubes. ⋯ No information on the development of the Hewitt airway or Doyen's pharyngeal tubes was found. Doyen's pharyngeal tubes were functionally similar to modern supraglottic airways.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Jul 2014
Historical ArticleANZAC doctors at Gallipoli and their contributions to anaesthesia in Australia.
This year marks the centenary of the start of World War I and with the coming centenary of the involvement of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in the Gallipoli campaign. We look at the careers of four doctors who served at Gallipoli and their various contributions to anaesthesia. Drs Eric W. ⋯ Fiaschi and Bernard T. Zwar all served as part of the Australian Army Medical Corps. All survived the war.