Journal of clinical anesthesia
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Inconsistency between simultaneous blood pressure measurements in the arm, forearm, and leg in anesthetized children.
To determine the accuracy and precision of simultaneous noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) measurement in the arm, forearm, and ankle in anesthetized children. ⋯ Forearm and ankle NIBP measurements are unreliable and inconsistent with NIBP measured in the arm of anesthetized children. These alternative BP measurement sites are not reliable in accuracy (comparison with reference "gold" standard) and precision (reproducibility).
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To determine whether postoperative epidural analgesia is associated with better recurrence-free survival and overall survival after lung cancer surgery. ⋯ The type of postoperative analgesia used after surgery for nonsmall cell lung cancer is not associated with better 2-year or 5-year recurrence-free survival or overall survival rates.
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A case of tension pneumopericardium that occurred after total gastrectomy in an 80 year old woman is presented. There have been some prior case reports of pneumopericardium that occurred during positive pressure ventilation; in this patient hypotension due to tension pneumopericardium occurred after extubation. Return of spontaneous ventilation with negative-pressure breathing may have induced air aspiration into the pericardial sac from the abdominal cavity.