Articles: patients.
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Oral baclofen, the most often prescribed antispastic drug, has been shown to be effective in trigeminal neuralgia. Spinal application of baclofen leads to a complete supression of spasticity even in cases in which no previous oral antispastic medication achieved a response. ⋯ Spinal baclofen has also been effective during long-term infusion with an implanted pump for more than 1 year. Spinal baclofen infusion seems to be a possibility in the treatment of severe trigeminal neuralgia resistant to other forms of therapy.
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Journal of anesthesia · Oct 1991
External cardiac massage using a hand-powered chest compressor on dogs with ventricular fibrillation.
We devised a hand-powered portable chest compressor for external cardiac massage. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of this device in comparison to manual chest compression in dogs with ventricular fibrillation. Five out of 7 dogs that received manual chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) were successfully resuscitated. ⋯ Minimum arterial pressure during CPR was higher in dogs receiving mechanical chest compression than those receiving manual chest compression. This study reveals that the hand-powered chest compressor is equally efficient for external cardiac massage as manual cardiac massage. Moreover, this device can be useful in a situation where manual compression has to be interrupted, such as during litter transport of the patient, and so on.