Anesthésie, analgésie, réanimation
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Anesth Analg (Paris) · Jan 1979
[Neuromuscular block control during and after anaesthesia (author's transl)].
During many years the clinician's requirements for neuromuscular blocking drugs are satisfied by clinical investigations. Electromyographic recordings which are a satisfactory method are not useful in current practice. The use of nerve stimulators as Churchill Davidson apparatus modified for train of four impulses must reach the continental theatres, the response to neuromuscular blocking agents varying over a wide range. Five ways of stimulation can be used giving different informations, not only during anaesthesia, but so after particularly to specify the origin of some complications.
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Anesth Analg (Paris) · Jan 1979
Comparative Study[Pain due to bone metastasis in hormonodependent cancer. Treatment by intrasellar injection of alcohol (author's transl)].
Pain due to bone metastasis in hormonodependent cancer (of the breast or the prostates more particularly) can be relieved by surgery directed at the endocrinic system. The most efficient techniques are hypophysectomies and hypophysiolysis (or neuroadenolysis). The intrasellar injection of alcohol through the transnasal-transsphenoidal route is a fairly simple procedure which can be carried out on such fragile patients without too much risk. ⋯ The duration of analgesia varies and pain frequently returns. One of the advantages of this procedure lies in the fact that such an injection may be repeated if necessary. The intrasellar injection of alcohol is but one of the many techniques available to practitioners working in the field of intractable pain.