Der Anaesthesist
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Methods influencing intraoperative heat balance in the sterile enclosure (author's transl)].
More and more operations are performed in a sterile enclosure ("Sterilboxe") with a high fresh air turnover to achieve an optimum aseptic standard. This study investigated the question whether the climate of the "Sterilboxe" has a depressing effect on the body temperature of anaesthetized patients. Furthermore various devices were tested for their value in compensating for heat losses. ⋯ Three methods for the compensation of heat loss were compared each against other and against the control whilst continually recording the oesophageal temperature. In the control group the temperature fall was 0.44 degrees C/h, in the group in which respiratory gases were optimally warmed and humidified the decrease was only 0.11 degrees C/h. Warming up all perfused liquids in a water-bath heat-exchanger showed a fall of temperature of 0.2 degrees C/h; with a Fenwal heatexchanger temperature decreased by 0.27 degrees C/h.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
[Subjective complaints of out-patients after halothane or enflurane anaesthesia (author's transl)].
In a prospective and randomized study, day-patients receiving halothane or enflurane-anaesthesia (n = 42 resp. 59) were followed up by questionnaire to detect subjective complaints. There was no difference between the two anaesthetic agents. Despite the high incidence of complaints (88%), most of the patients would choose day-stay care (75%) and general anaesthesia (77%) again.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
Postoperative nausea and vomiting treated with domperidone (r 33812) an open and a double-blind study.
The effect of domperidone on postoperative nausea and vomiting was evaluated in two consecutive studies. Fifty-eight patients with postoperative nausea and vomiting were included in an open pilot study and 38 other patients in a double-blind trial. ⋯ In the double-blind trial, vomiting recurred significantly later in domperidone than in placebo-treated patients. Side-effects were not seen nor reported in either study.