Articles: monitoring.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · May 1998
Prognostic importance of automated ST-segment monitoring after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Automated ST-segment monitors are widely used in cardiac surgery units. The purpose of this study was to determine if cardiac morbidity and mortality, after CABG surgery, are predicted by ECG ST-segment changes on automated monitors. ⋯ Automated ST analysis is a non-invasive, sensitive and very easy-to-use monitoring system to screen patients who may develop myocardial ischemia and cardiac complications after CABG surgery.
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Case Reports
[Bronchodilator aerosol propellant interferes with an photoacoustic spectrophotometer respiratory gas analyzer].
A patient with bronchial asthma was scheduled for an operation under nitrous oxide-isoflurane anesthesia. We monitored isoflurane concentrations continuously using an anesthetic gas analyzer (BK 1304). ⋯ The BK 1304 uses infrared photoacoustic spectrophotometry and it is susceptible to interferences caused by Freon propellants in bronchodilator aerosols. We should take care in monitoring inhalational anesthetics when using aerosols containing Freon propellants.
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Noninvasive monitoring of lung function during mechanical ventilation has been used to study disease processes causing respiratory failure. Pediatric pulmonary function monitoring during mechanical ventilation in the pediatric intensive care unit in patient with respiratory failure is becoming more common in western countries. The article describes a review of principles and methods of respiratory function monitoring in the pediatric age group. ⋯ Key articles pertaining to lung function testing in pediatric age group from past 15 years were used as well as clinical experience encountered by attending pediatric intensivists at Henrico Doctors' Hospital was incorporated. Over the past ten years the use of monitoring of gas exchange and bedside pulmonary mechanics monitoring as a part of respiratory function monitoring has become more common. With better clinical information to precisely document the status of lung function, it may lead to improved methods of ventilator management which may prevent complications and may significantly impact on morbidity and/or mortality of mechanically ventilated pediatric patients.
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Editorial Biography Historical Article
Who was the first to monitor blood pressure during anaesthesia?