Anaesthesia and intensive care
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Mar 2012
Letter Case ReportsPostoperative occipital nerve injury in a child.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Jan 2012
End-of-life practices in a tertiary intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia.
Our aim was to evaluate end-of-life practices in a tertiary intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia. A prospective observational study was conducted in the medical-surgical intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over the course of the one-year study period, 176 patients died and 77% of these deaths were preceded by end-of-life decisions. ⋯ The patients' families or surrogates were informed for 88% of the decisions and all decisions were documented in the patients' medical records. Despite religious and cultural values, more than three-quarters of the patients whose deaths were preceded by end-of-life decisions gave do-not-resuscitate decisions before death. These decisions should be made early in the patients' stay in the intensive care unit.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Jan 2012
Letter Case ReportsTarget controlled infusion pump failure due to worn drive nut.