2003
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000084473.59960.87
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The anaesthesiologist in the intensive care unit

Abstract: Purpose of reviewThis review focuses on recent knowledge in areas of anaesthesia expertise which are indispensable to intensive care unit management, including airway management, vascular access, regional analgesia and the treatment of status asthmaticus and status epilepticus. Recent findingsEtomidate as the sole agent for intubation in the intensive care unit has a 90% success rate, while in a prehospital setting, the addition of succinylcholine to etomidate results in a 99% success rate. In determining succ… Show more

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“…doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2006. 10.012 used preferentially, including accessibility, ease of placement, presence of collateral flow, and risk of infection and serious embolic phenomena [1]. Although the radial, femoral, dorsalis pedis, brachial, ulnar, and axillary arteries are all accessible sites for cannulation, the literature focuses much more on cannulation of the radial artery.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2006. 10.012 used preferentially, including accessibility, ease of placement, presence of collateral flow, and risk of infection and serious embolic phenomena [1]. Although the radial, femoral, dorsalis pedis, brachial, ulnar, and axillary arteries are all accessible sites for cannulation, the literature focuses much more on cannulation of the radial artery.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%