Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Apr 2012
[Low-dose aspirin doesn't increase surgical bleeding nor transfusion rate in total knee arthroplasty].
Surgical bleeding. transfusion rate and cardiovascular complications were analized in patients undergoing chronic treatment with low-doses aspirin and scheduled to unilateral primary knee arthroplasty. ⋯ Preoperative treatment with low doses of aspirin does not increase surgical bleeding and transfusion rate in total knee arthroplasty. Preoperative discontinuation can cause severe cardiocirculatory complications.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Apr 2012
Practice Guideline[Spanish Society of Anaesthesia (SEDAR) guidelines for pre-anaesthesia checking procedures].
We present this document as a guide to preparing a specific institutional pre-anaesthesia checklist, as recommended in the Helsinki declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology. Also, the recently recommended WHO "safe surgery check-list" includes a check-list for anaesthesia. A working group was established in accordance with the charter of the Spanish Society of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation (Sociedad Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación [SEDAR]). ⋯ So, in order to ensure the aims and requirements of the European Board of Anaesthesiology, the European Society of Anaesthesiology, and the WHO are met, each institution should have a protocol for checking equipment and drugs. These guidelines are applicable to any anaesthesia equipment, enabling every institution to develop their own checking protocols, adapted to their anaesthesia machines and their procedures. With the consent of the SEDAR, this group will collaborate with anaesthesia machines providers in order to develop specific checklists for each of their models that will be available at www.sedar.es.