Articles: general-anesthesia.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Prospective External Validation of a Predictive Score for Postoperative Pulmonary Complications.
The 'Assess Respiratory Risk in Surgical Patients in Catalonia' risk score can predict post-operative pulmonary complications with adequate utility.
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Multicenter Study
Serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia: the serious complication repository project of the society for obstetric anesthesia and perinatology.
Because of the lack of large obstetric anesthesia databases, the incidences of serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia remain unknown. The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology developed the Serious Complication Repository Project to establish the incidence of serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia and to identify risk factors associated with each. ⋯ The Serious Complication Repository Project establishes the incidence of serious complications in obstetric anesthesia. Because serious complications related to obstetric anesthesia are rare, there were too few complications in each category to identify risk factors associated with each. However, because many of these complications can lead to catastrophic outcomes, it is recommended that the anesthesia provider remains vigilant and be prepared to rapidly diagnose and treat any complication.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Drivers of costs associated with reperfusion therapy in acute stroke: the Interventional Management of Stroke III Trial.
The Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS) III study tested the effect of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) alone when compared with intravenous tPA followed by endovascular therapy and collected cost data to assess the economic implications of the 2 therapies. This report describes the factors affecting the costs of the initial hospitalization for acute stroke subjects from the United States. ⋯ http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00359424.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyA pilot study for a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of the influence of anesthetic depth on long-term outcome.
Greater depth of anaesthesia may be associated with a higher incidence of wound infection, mortality and composite risk of complications.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Apr 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyEfficacy of a Novel Prewarming System in the Prevention of Perioperative Hypothermia. A prospective, randomized, multi-centre study.
Perioperative hypothermia is a common complication during general anesthesia. Although rewarming of patients before surgery has been used as a preventive measure and some guidelines recommend it, the implementation of prewarming for every surgical patient is cumbersome. Therefore, we sought to determine the efficacy of two novel prewarming methods that could facilitate prewarming in daily practice. ⋯ In our study active prewarming with a forced-air warmer and an insulating prewarming suit achieves significantly higher core temperatures during anesthesia and at the end of surgery and avoids hypothermia at the end of surgery compared to commercial or conventional insulation techniques.