Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Editorial Comment
Special announcement: Guidelines to the Practice of Anesthesia-Revised Edition 2019.
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Multicenter Study
Time to recovery after general anesthesia at hospitals with and without a phase I post-anesthesia care unit: a historical cohort study.
There is little knowledge about how hospitals can best handle disruptions that reduce post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) capacity. Few hospitals in Japan have any PACU beds and instead have the anesthesiologists recover their patients in the operating room. We compared postoperative recovery times between a hospital with (University of Iowa) and without (Shin-yurigaoka General Hospital) a PACU. ⋯ This knowledge can be generally applied in situations at hospitals with regular PACU use when there are such large disruptions to PACU capacity that it is known before a case begins that the anesthesiologist likely will need to recover the patient (i.e., when there will not be an available PACU bed and/or nurse). The Japanese anesthesiologists have no PACU labour costs but likely greater anesthesia drug/monitor costs.
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Editorial Comment
Special announcement-procedural sedation: a position paper of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society.
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Practice Guideline
Procedural sedation: a position paper of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society.
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