Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Feb 1997
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial[Changes in the concentrations of catecholamines and cortisol in balanced anesthesia and total intravenous anesthesia].
To compare hormone response to stress caused by surgery performed under balanced general anesthesia and total intravenous anesthesia. ⋯ Hormone levels are significantly higher during intravenous anesthesia than during balanced anesthesia, and the difference is evident from the earliest measurement performed.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Feb 1997
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial[Air-convection heater for abdominal surgery. Study of the relation between surgical time and the efficacy of body temperature maintenance].
1) To quantify the efficacy of forced air warming for maintaining body temperature during general anesthesia of adults, and 2) to study the relation between the duration of surgery and the level of thermal protection provided by the device used. ⋯ The Bair Hugger heater is effective during abdominal operations lasting two or more hours. The device not only prevented hypothermia from deepening during surgery, but also reversed hypothermia in spite of being used after anesthetic induction and in spite of the loss of heat produced by secondary vasodilation.