Perspectives of Parents/Legal Guardians of Children With Down Syndrome Requiring Anesthesia: Concerns and Sources of Information.

This descriptive exploratory study sought to gain insight about where caregivers of children with Down syndrome find information regarding anesthesia and the experiences of these caregivers when their child had to receive an anesthetic. We hypothesized that the Internet and social media were major sources of information. We recruited parents/caregivers via Down syndrome organizational websites and social media.

Accuracy of Temporal Artery Thermometry as an Indicator of Core Body Temperature in Patients Receiving General Anesthesia.

Purpose: To evaluate the agreement of temporal artery temperature (Tat) with esophageal temperature (Tes) and oral temperature (Tor), and explore potential factors associated with the level of agreement between the thermometry methods in different clinical settings.

Design: A prospective repeated measures (induction, emergence, and postanesthesia care unit) design was used.

Methods: Temperature data were collected for 54 patients receiving general anesthesia.

Modelling of blood pressure outcomes in patients with and without established cardiovascular or renal disease following treatment with valsartan (the PREVIEW study).

Background: Hypertensive patients with established cardiovascular or renal disease (ECVRD) have an added 10-year risk of cardiovascular events, classified by the European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology as 'very high'.

Aims: To identify determinants of blood pressure (BP) outcomes in hypertensive patients with and without ECVRD treated in second-line with valsartan.

Methods: This was a subgroup analysis comparing patients with and without ECVRD who participated in the PREVIEW study, a 90-day observational prospective effectiveness study of valsartan, conducted in Belgium.