Articles: general-anesthesia.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Comparison of the effects of spinal anaesthesia and general anaesthesia on postoperative oxygenation and perioperative mortality.
One hundred patients presenting for surgical treatment of fractured neck of femur were allocated to receive either spinal (SAB) or general (GA) anaesthesia. Before operation, the mean PaO2 was 9.04 kPa. ⋯ Eight patients (15.7%) in GA group and five patients (10.2%) in SAB group died within 4 weeks of surgery. The difference was not statistically significant.
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Anesth Analg (Paris) · Jan 1980
[Anesthetic management for delivery of 38 cardiac patients (author's transl)].
The choice of anesthesia is discussed in connection with a serie of 38 women cardiac and pregnant cared from 1976 to 1979, 32 of them having delivered a child. Peridural analgesia improves the labour and the delivery without inconveniene for either mother of child, but general anesthesia must be prefered for cesarean section. Anticoagulant therapy is a contra-indication for peridural analgesia.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Comparison of etomidate in combination with fentanyl or diazepam, with thiopentone as an induction agent for general anaesthesia.
In 104 premedicated patients undergoing general surgery, anaesthesia was induced either with etomidate 0.3 mg kg-1 preceded by fentanyl 1.25 or 2.5 microgram kg-1 i.v.or diazepam 0.0625 or 0.125 mg kg-1 i.v., or with thiopentone preceded by fentanyl 1.25 microgram kg-1 i.v. Despite the use of fentanyl or diazepam, the frequency of pain on injection in patients receiving etomidate was between 32% and 53%, being rated as severe in 5-20% of patients. ⋯ The frequency of both pain and involuntary muscle movements was least when fentanyl 2.5 microgram kg-1 preceded the administration of etomidate. There was no significant relationship between the pain and muscle movement; three of 10 patients given etomidate into a central vein had such movements.