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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2018
Meta AnalysisLaryngeal Mask Airway Versus Other Airway Devices for Anesthesia in Children With an Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Respiratory Complications.
LMA use in children with URTIs reduces cough compared to intubation, but possibly not laryngospasm, although quality of evidence is poor.
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Effects of dexmedetomidine on perioperative stress, inflammation, and immune function: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Dexmedetomidine reduces perioperative stress and inflammation, while supporting surgical patients’ immune function.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Apr 2019
Randomized Controlled TrialManual versus pressure-controlled facemask ventilation during the induction of general anaesthesia in children: a prospective randomised controlled study.
Pressure-controlled face mask ventilation during paediatric induction reduces gastric insufflation compared with manual ventilation.
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An exploration of the ethics, challenges and practical reality of treating family members. Hutchison & McConnell deploy models of virtue, utilitarianism, deontology and principlism in an accessible and applied way.
- Virtue ethics – behaving in the way we think is right; embodying courage.
- Utilitarianism – behaving so as to maximise the best outcomes for the greater number of people.
- Deontology – obeying the rules; following a duty to moral law.
- Principlism – balances beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy and justice.
They cautiously challenge the blanket prohibitions of many professional bodies against treating family members.
Well worth reading.
summary“Only by constantly questioning whether they are the correct person to deliver care can they hope to do right by both their relative and themselves.”