British journal of anaesthesia
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Critical care usage after major gastrointestinal and liver surgery: a prospective, multicentre observational study.
Patient selection for critical care admission must balance patient safety with optimal resource allocation. This study aimed to determine the relationship between critical care admission, and postoperative mortality after abdominal surgery. ⋯ After risk adjustment, no 30-day survival benefit was identified for either planned or unplanned postoperative admissions to critical care within this cohort. This likely represents appropriate admission of the highest-risk patients. Planned admissions in selected, intermediate-risk patients may present a strategy to mitigate the risk of unplanned admission. Substantial inter-centre variation exists in planned critical care admissions after emergency laparotomies.
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Retraction Of Publication
Retraction notice to "Relationship between post-tetanic twitch and single twitch response after administration of vecuronium" [Br J Anaesth 1993; 71: 443-444].
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief of British Journal of Anaesthesia. The study is retracted for the following reasons: Y Saitoh provided a statement in a personal communication to a member of the editorial board of British Journal of Anaesthesia that the study was not approved by the Institutional Review Board and that no evidence exists to support the study findings.
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Recovery from Caesarean delivery in women and surgical nerve injury in animals after delivery is more rapid than expected, an effect reversed in animals by spinal injection of an oxytocin receptor antagonist. We hypothesised that endogenous modulation of acute pain is altered postpartum. ⋯ NCT01843517.