Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Oct 2016
Observational StudyThe STOP-BANG questionnaire and the risk of perioperative respiratory complications in urgent surgery patients: A prospective, observational study.
The STOP-BANG (SB) questionnaire, a tool originally proposed for identifying patients at risk of obstructive sleep apnoea, may also identify patients at increased risk of perioperative complications (when>3). Perioperative complications, including respiratory ones, are more frequent in emergency surgery. This study aimed at evaluating whether the SB is predictive of perioperative respiratory complications in urgent surgery. ⋯ An elevated STOP-BANG score (≥ 3) is associated with an increased risk of perioperative respiratory complications and with prolonged length of stay in urgent surgery patients.
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Oct 2016
Laboratory study on the kinetics of the warming of cold fluids-A hot topic.
In case of mild therapeutic hypothermia after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, several techniques could limit the cold fluid rewarming during its perfusion. We aimed to evaluate cold fluid temperature evolution and to identify the factors responsible for rewarming in order to suggest a prediction model of temperature evolution. ⋯ By limiting this "ILT effect," the volume required for inducing mild therapeutic hypothermia could be reduced, leading to a safer and a more efficient treatment.