Publications by authors named "Edith Collard"
Background: Cataract surgery is one of the most frequent surgeries in the world. It is a very safe procedure mostly performed under topical anesthesia in outpatients centers. Due to the growing lack of anesthesiologists, cataract surgeries are more frequently performed without an anesthesiologist present in the operating room.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Deliberate hypotension is one way to achieve a bloodless surgical field in endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). We compared two anaesthesia regimens to induce deliberate hypotension and attempted to determine the most efficient one.
Methods: Fifty-nine patients undergoing ESS were minimized into two groups.
Objectives: To determine the main causes for unplanned admission of children to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) following anaesthesia in our centre. To compare the results with previous publications and propose a data sheet for the prospective collection of such information.
Methods: Inclusion criteria were any patient under 16 years who had an unplanned post-anaesthetic admission to the PICU from 1999 to 2010 in our university hospital.
Purpose Of Review: Recent advances in technology as well as new indications for implantation have appeared in the field of ventricular assist devices. Progress has also been made in the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of myocardial recovery after ventricular assist device support.
Recent Findings: Technological progress includes the development of fully implantable pulsatile and continuous flow pumps, either axial flow or centrifugal, for left ventricular and total heart assistance.
Background: To assess the influence on myocardial protection of the rate of infusion (continuous vs intermittent) of cold blood cardioplegia administered retrogradely during prolonged aortic cross-clamping. The end-points were ventricular performance and biochemical markers of ischemia.
Methods: Seventy patients undergoing myocardial revascularization for three-vessel disease were prospectively randomized to receive intermittent or continuous retrograde cold blood cardioplegia.
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a case-matched comparison of hemodynamic outcome.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
October 2002
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess improved myocardial protection by performing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) on the beating heart. A case-matched study was conducted among patients who underwent CABG either on-pump (group 1), or off-pump (group 2).
Methods: Forty-five pairs of patients, having a similar clinical profile, were selected on the basis of five variables: age, gender, body surface area, ejection fraction, extent of coronary disease.