Centralized monitored anesthesia care by nurse anesthetist for cataract and glaucoma surgery in a 1:3 ratio: a non-inferiority study.

Background: Minor Ophthalmic Procedures (MOP), especially cataract or glaucoma surgery, are considered low risk. However, in France, anesthesia must be monitored continuously and carried out by an anesthetist or a nurse anesthetist (NA). The aim was to assess whether an externalized monitored anesthesia care (MAC) would be non-inferior to an individual MAC inside the OR regarding the incidence of severe hypertension, bradycardia, hypoxemia, and surgeon satisfaction.

[Pressure-volume relationship for paediatric cuffed tracheal tube].

Objective: Define the pressure-volume relationship of the cuff of paediatric cuffed tracheal tubes.

Study Design: Experimental study.

Materials And Methods: The cuff pressure was measured after incremental 0.

Two-lung and one-lung ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the effects of position and F(IO)2.

Unlabelled: We compared the effects of position and fraction of inspired oxygen (F(IO)2) on oxygenation during thoracic surgery in 24 consenting patients randomly assigned to receive an F(IO)2 of 0.4 (eight patients, Group 0.4), 0.

Oxygenation improvement with nitric oxide in right-to-left shunt without significant effects on pulmonary arterial pressure.

Following surgical closure of an interventricular communication complicating an anterior myocardial infarction, a 74-year-old woman developed severe right ventricular failure and hypoxemia due to the opening of a patent foramen ovale (PFO). Mean pulmonary artery pressure was 24 mm Hg. Treatment with inhaled nitric oxide (5 ppm) increased PaO2 from 47 to 90 mm Hg (FIo(2)1).