Articles: general-anesthesia.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
The effect of the laryngeal mask airway on coughing after eye surgery under general anesthesia.
Twenty-nine patients scheduled for elective eye surgery under general anesthesia were randomized into two groups, A and B. After induction of anesthesia, the airway of those in group A was maintained with a conventional tracheal tube; in group B, with a laryngeal mask airway. In the immediate postoperative period, 13 of the 14 patients in group A coughed; none of those in group B did (P < .001).
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Comparative Study
Regurgitation of gastric contents during general anaesthesia using the laryngeal mask airway.
We have investigated the incidence of regurgitation of gastric contents during general anaesthesia administered via a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) or face mask and Guedel airway in 56 patients with no risk factors for regurgitation. Patients swallowed a gelatin capsule containing methylene blue 10 min before induction of anaesthesia. ⋯ No patients in the face mask-Guedel airway group regurgitated dye (P = 0.005). There was no evidence of aspiration of dye.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[The effects of preanesthetic oral clonidine upon heart rate response to intravenous atropine in patients during general anesthesia].
In awake subjects the positive chronotropic effect of intravenously administered atropine 10 micrograms.kg-1 has been demonstrated to be blunted by preanesthetic medication of oral clonidine 5 micrograms.kg-1. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether general anesthesia could alter the clonidine-induced attenuation of positive chronotropic effect by atropine. Thirty-two patients were randomly assigned to one of the two groups; patients of the clonidine group received oral clonidine 5 micrograms.kg-1 (n = 12), whereas those of the control group received no clonidine. ⋯ Following the stable circulatory period of 10 min, hemodynamic measurements were made at 1 min intervals for 10 min after atropine 10 micrograms.kg-1 was administered intravenously as a bolus in both groups. A significant attenuation in heart rate response to intravenous atropine 10 micrograms.kg-1 was observed in patients receiving clonidine 5 micrograms.kg-1, as compared with that in the control group (P less than 0.01); maximal increases in heart rate were 15 +/- 8 and 22 +/- 6 beats.min-1 (mean +/- SD) in the clonidine and control groups, respectively. It is concluded that clonidine 5 micrograms.kg-1 blunts the heart rate response to intravenous atropine 10 micrograms.kg-1 in patients anesthetized with enflurane and nitrous oxide in oxygen.
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To determine whether data recorded by an information management system is significantly different from that recorded manually. ⋯ Observer bias, missed readings, and errors of memory, which affect manual anesthetic records, may cause significant inaccuracy and may be avoided by using automated records generated by information management systems.