British journal of anaesthesia
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Multicenter Study
Preoperative heart rate and myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery: results of a predefined secondary analysis of the VISION study.
Increased baseline heart rate is associated with cardiovascular risk and all-cause mortality in the general population. We hypothesized that elevated preoperative heart rate increases the risk of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS). ⋯ NCT00512109.
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Multicenter Study
Covert stroke after non-cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study.
Overt stroke after non-cardiac surgery has a substantial impact on the duration and quality of life. Covert stroke in the non-surgical setting is much more common than overt stroke and is associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Little is known about covert stroke after non-cardiac, non-carotid artery surgery. ⋯ NCT01369537.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Perioperative assessment of regional ventilation during changing body positions and ventilation conditions by electrical impedance tomography.
Lung-protective ventilation is claimed to be beneficial not only in critically ill patients, but also in pulmonary healthy patients undergoing general anaesthesia. We report the use of electrical impedance tomography for assessing regional changes in ventilation, during both spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation, in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. ⋯ Electrical impedance tomography was able to identify and quantify on a breath-by-breath basis circumscribed areas, so-called silent spaces, within healthy lungs that received little or no ventilation during general anaesthesia, capnoperitoneum, and different body positions. As these silent spaces are suggestive of atelectasis on the one hand and overdistension on the other, they might become useful to guide individualized protective ventilation strategies to mitigate the side-effects of anaesthesia and surgery on the lungs.