Purpose Labetalol is an effective antihypertensive medication frequently used to treat systemic hypertension in acute care settings, including the management of hypertension associated with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. We present a case of profound hypotension, refractory...

A tracheal bronchus is a congenital abnormality of the tracheobronchial tree, in which a displaced or accessory bronchus arises from the trachea superior to its bifurcation. We report a patient with a tracheal bronchus that was found incidentally during surgery in the p...

The aetiology, physiological effects, and symptomatology of tracheal obstruction in infants are reviewed. The causes of obstruction are classified according to site — intraluminal, mural, and extramural—and each type illustrated by a case report The anaesthetic manageme...

R ECOMMENDATIONS for the conduct of medical research were stimulated by the revulsion of experiments performed by the Nazis during the 2 na World War. The Nuremberg code (1947) (www.med.umich.edu/ irmed/ethics/2quremberg) emphasized that voluntary consent by the subject...

Objectif Cette etude a pour but de determiner la dose optimale d’edrophonium necessaire a l’antagonisme d’un bloc neuromusculaire induit par le mivacurium.

Heart rate is considered to be a major determinant of cardiac output in infants and small children but the relationships between age, heart, rate and cardiac output in humans have never been clearly established. This study was designed to determine the change in cardiac...

Purpose: To describe a new technique of paravertebral block for labour analgesia and to report the successful use of bilateral paravertebral block in four parturients with contraindications to conventional labour epidural analgesia. Clinical Features: Four parturients w...