Articles: general-anesthesia.
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Anaesthesia is now an important cause of maternal death. Most deaths which occur in association with anaesthesia are preventable. ⋯ There remains the possibility of pulmonary irritation due to food particles, bile salts and even the antacid itself. The role of difficult or failed tracheal intubation is emphasized in the causation of hypoxia and the pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents.
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This study involves ventilation of the lungs with warmed humidifed anaesthetic gases during prolonged elective abdominal operations. Tympanic, oesophageal and toe temperatures were compared bewteen twenty warmed and twenty un-warmed patients at various times during operation and recovery. Fifty per cent (10/20) unwarmed patients shivered in the recovery room, while none of the warmed patients shivered. Our data indicate that pulmonary ventilation with warm humidified anaesthetic gases provides heat transfer by the lungs, preventing hypothermia during operation and post -anaesthesia shivering is prevented by maintaining the patient normothermic in both the operating room and the recovery room.
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The Cornell veterinarian · Jan 1978
Anesthesia for small animal pediatric and geriatric patients. I. Anesthesia for small animal pediatric patients.
Anesthetic management of the pediatric patient is a challenge which can give rise to a most rewarding anesthetic management if one takes into consideration the normal physiological function of the pediatric patient. One should choose the appropriate medications which may safely be administered to an animal of this age. Control of anesthesia through the use of appropriate anesthetic equipment and the use of appropriate monitoring will aid safe management. The selection of adjunct medications can achieve control of complications and aid ultimate uncomplicated recovery.