Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Review Meta Analysis[Epidemiology of cerebral perioperative vascular accidents.]
Stroke is a well-described postoperative complication, after carotid and cardiac surgery. On the contrary, few studies are available concerning postoperative stroke in general non-cardiac non-carotid surgery. The high morbid-mortality of stroke justifies an extended analysis of recent literature. ⋯ Postoperative stroke is a quality marker of the surgical teams' skill and has specific onset time and induces an increase of postoperative mortality.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Review[Specific anaesthetic procedures for nasal and sinus surgery.]
In nasal and sinus surgery, the anaesthetist must share the operating field with the surgeon and take into account some patients' specific pathologies. Bleeding must be avoided by different means but the accurate gesture of the surgeon, added to the properties of the new anaesthetic drugs, may reduce the risk of this functional surgery.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Review[Decree of anaesthesia of 1994, day surgery and medical responsibility: Necessary reflections on the inevitable conciliation between regulations and recommendations.]
Day surgery is often considered as a marker of the necessity of reorganizing the hospital to take care globally and so better meet the expectations of improvement of the management of patients. But the actual deployment of day surgery can also act as a real revelation of the stakes of conciliation between the regulations, which supervise professional practices and organization, and the functioning of hospitals. Between the regulations supervising hospitals and professional practices and the place of the recommendations, between the general legal framework of the medical activity and specific legal framework (decree of anesthesia of 1994) and the Evidence-Based Medicine, the pretext of the improvement of the patient flow in day surgery, recommended by several institutions (Sfar, ANAP, HAS), questions about the legal obligation of the passage of all the patients in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). ⋯ There is a real brake in the deployment of the day surgery because the strict respect for the decree of 94 on the systematic passage in PACU can be paradoxical with a better quality of the care. Twenty years after the publication of the decree of anesthesia, it seems essential to ask at first if it's possible to fast-track discharge without any stay in the PACU and thus of the inevitable conciliation between all these measures. Secondly it's necessary of modifying this decree to impulse the deployment of the day surgery.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Review[Perioperative management of patients with systemic scleroderma.]
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an auto-immune disease characterized by vasculopathy and the combination of microangiopathy and tissue collagen deposit leading to skin, digestive, pulmonary, myocardial and renal injuries. These repercussions could be challenging for anesthesiologists and associated with difficulties in airway management, and occurrence of congestive right heart failure or acute kidney crisis. The aim of this review is to review the physiopathology and the progression of the SSc, as well as to provide a strategy of perioperative management of these patients.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2014
Review Meta Analysis[Efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid administration for the prevention and/or the treatment of post-partum haemorrhage: A systematic review with meta-analysis].
Assess the efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid administration for the prevention and/or the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage. ⋯ Although tranexamic acid administration seemed to significantly reduce blood loss and the incidence of severe post-partum haemorrhage, further prospective trials are needed to confirm the efficacy and safety of tranexamic administration in the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage. Those studies should assess the pharmacokinetic profile and the safety of this drug in pregnant women.