MS Generic name Commercial products 0.7 Hetastarch Hespan®, Plasmasteril®, Hextend® 0.6 Hexastarch Elohes® 0.5 Pentastarch HAES-Steril®, Pentaspan®, Hemohes® 0.4 Tetrastarch Voluven®, Venofundin®, Tetraspan® There has been considerable criticism of HES…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_11 11. Hemostatic Resuscitation for Perioperative Bleeding Philip C. Spinella1, 2 , Heather F. Pidcoke2 and Andrew P. Cap2 (1) Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in…
These authors also developed a multifactorial risk factor index for predicting postoperative respiratory failure. Postoperative respiratory failure occurred in <0.01 % of low -risk patients (who had a combined risk…
Patients n Diagnostic criteria Prevalence (%) Shi et al. [3] Pancreatic surgery 65 Fasting blood glucose ≥126 mg/dl (7 mmol/l) Or Random blood glucose ≥200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/l) 63…
Type of oral antidiabetic and non-insulin injectable therapy Day before surgery Day of surgery Patient for AM surgery Patient for PM surgery Acarbose No dose change Omit morning dose Give…
2009 ACCF/AHA guideline recommendations 2009 ESC/ESA guideline recommendations Class I Beta blockers should be continued in patients undergoing surgery who are receiving beta-blockers for treatment of conditions with ACCF/AHA Class…
Fig. 5.1 Recovery as a continuous variable. X = individual patient change score, which is a measure of individual patient recovery as a continuous variable derived from summation of multiple domains Defining…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_1 1. Perioperative Medicine: Defining the Anesthesiologist’s Role in Shaping Perioperative Outcomes Ottokar Stundner1 and Stavros G. Memtsoudis2 (1) Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive…
and Valeria Mossetti1 (1) Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Regina Margherita Children Hospital, Turin, Italy Valeria Mossetti Email: valeriamossetti@libero.it KeywordsUltrasoundRegional anesthesiaTechniquesPediatric There has been a recent increase in the use of…
Fig. 19.1 Pre-procedural US screening to detect anatomical variants. (a) Normal anatomy, (b) abnormal internal jugular vein (V) position (median to the carotid artery), (c) abnormal surrounding structure (*, ganglion),…
