[Failure to perform auto-test of anaesthesia machine at the opening of the operating room].

Background: controls performed at the opening of the operating room include the anesthesia machine auto-test. Omitting the preoperative checklist is unsafe for the patient and increases the risk of possible breakdowns. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence and the situations in which the auto-test of the machine was not performed at the opening of the operative room.

[Survey and budgetary impact of anaesthesia machines failures].

Objective: To assess the incidence and the causes of failures of anaesthesia machines in relation to aging. Study design. - Prospective survey from january 1996 to july 2000.

Research on the best chemohyperthermia technique of treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis after complete resection.

Background: The complete or almost complete resection of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) followed by intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia (IPCH) is potentially capable of curing some patients presenting with disease confined to the peritoneum.

Aims: The aim of this prospective phase I-II study was to develop an efficient IPCH procedure with good thermal homogeneity and good spatial diffusion, that would be reproducible (and thus could be standardized and exported), and to evaluate patient tolerance and its efficiency in eradicating tumor tissue.

Methods: Seven IPCH procedures were tested successively in 32 patients (up to a total of 35 IPCH).

[Treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis using complete excision and intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia. A phase I-II study defining the best technical procedures].

Objectives: The complete or quasi complete resection of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) followed with IPCH is potentially able to cure some patients with a disease confined to the peritoneum. The aim of this prospective phase I-II study was to elaborate an efficient IPCH procedure with a good thermal homogeneity and a good spatial diffusion, which should be reproductible (and so standardizable and exportable), and to appreciate its tolerance and its carcinologic impact.

Patients And Methods: Seven IPCH procedures were successively tested in 32 patients (for a total of 35 IPCH); each of these were tested in at least four patients before being modified for technical or tolerance reason.