Perioperative management of patients declining transfusions of blood components-National survey of anaesthesiologists, abdominal surgeons and obstetricians in Denmark.

Perioperative management of patients declining transfusions of blood products can be challenging both ethically and clinically. Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) decline treatment with blood products and have published a list of interventions they might accept as substitutes. No detailed documentation of available substitute interventions at Danish hospitals exists.

Waking Up in Pain: a prospective unselected cohort study of pain in 3702 patients immediately after surgery in the Danish Realm.

Background: Acute and persistent pain after surgery is well described. However, no large-scale studies on immediate postoperative pain in the operating room (OR) exist, hindering potential areas of research to improve clinical outcomes. Thus, we aimed to describe the occurrence and severity of immediate postoperative pain in a large, unselected cohort.

Infrared flashing light through the cricothyroid membrane to guide flexible bronchoscopic tracheal intubation.

Flexible bronchoscopic tracheal intubation is a fundamental technique in the management of the difficult airway but requires specific skills which may be both difficult to achieve and maintain. Therefore, techniques to improve its success should be developed. We present two cases, one where the ear, nose and throat surgeon could not view the glottis due to laryngeal pathology, and one where pathology in the oropharynx obscured access to the trachea during attempts at flexible bronchoscopic and videolaryngoscopic tracheal intubation.

Analysis of pesticides in red wines by on-line coupled reversed-phase liquid chromatography-gas chromatography with vaporiser/precolumn solvent split/gas discharge interface.

Pesticides in red wines were analysed by on-line coupled reversed-phase liquid chromatography-gas chromatography where a vaporiser/precolumn solvent split/gas discharge interface enabled direct transfer of aqueous eluent to the GC system. The LC part of the system provided sample clean-up and re-concentration, and the GC the final analytical step. The method developed allowed automated and quantitative analysis of the wine samples, where the only manual step was filtration.