A case of recurrent arrhythmia in an acute pancreatitis patient--pathophysiological explanation using shortage of 'repolarization reserve'.

We report a case of a patient with acute pancreatitis who developed serious heart rhythm abnormalities on three occasions, two of which were associated with administration of the first generation antihistamine chloropyramine, and the third one with hypomagnesemia and hypokalemia. Dysrhythmic events consisted of bigeminy, multifocal ventricular extrasystoles and torsades de pointes-like ventricular tachycardia. Electrocardiographic changes in acute pancreatitis in the absence of previous heart disease can occur in more than half of the cases.

Application of one-compartmental bio-metric blood loss calculations with transfused blood volume taken into account after aneurysmectomy.

Blood loss can be measured directly and indirectly. The latter reflects blood loss through the assessment of hemoglobin level. Thus aim of this study was to determine the applicability of the drop in hemoglobin levels blood loss calculation when transfused blood volume is taken into account on the patients who underwent aneurysmectomy and to estimate whether this model is applicable on geriatric population.

[Antibiotics in the critically ill].

Introduction: Antibiotics are one the most common therapies administered in the intensive care unit setting. This review outlines the strategy for optimal use of antimicrobial agents in the critically ill.

Indications For Empirical Antimicrobial Therapy: In severely ill patients, empirical antimicrobial therapy should be used when a suspected infection may impair the outcome.

Cardiac perioperative complications in noncardiac surgery.

Anesthesiologists are confronted with an increasing population of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery who are at risk for cardiac complications in the perioperative period. Perioperative cardiac complications are responsible for significant mortality and morbidity. The aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of perioperative (operative and postoperative) cardiac complications and correlations between the incidence of perioperative cardiac complications and type of surgical procedure, age, presence of concurrent deseases.

Intensive-care management of a patient with HELLP syndrome--case report.

HELLP syndrome belongs to the group of pathological states known as pregnancy-induced hypertension or EPH gestosis. The basic criteria for establishing the diagnosis are as follows: H for hemolysis, EL for elevated liver enzymes and LP for low platelets. A pregnant woman, 38 years of age, multipara (V pregnancy, third delivery) has been admitted to the Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Novi Sad in 36-37 week gestation complaining of nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, general weakness, exhaustion as well as symptom of previously diagnosed preeclampsia.

[Sedation and analgesia in intensive therapy].

Introduction: In the operating room, anaesthetist must provide unconsciousness, analgesia and muscular relaxation. In intensive therapy (IT), the rules are different and not every patient requires sedation, but almost every patient needs analgesia. The patient who is alert, calm and comfortable despite the presence of tubes and cannulas in the nose, mouth, radial artery, central vein, urethra, surgical wounds, pleural space etc.

[Prolonged apnea after administration of succinylcholine].

Introduction: Succinylcholine is a depolarizing muscle relaxant that has been used for five decades in clinical practice. It is decomposed by enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which is synthesized in posed by enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which is synthesized in the liver. This process lasts a few minutes, and is prolonged in the case of hepatic failure of the liver function, in normal pregnancy and puerperium, in persons with lack of this enzyme or genetic anomaly in its composition.

[The Institute of Surgery in Novi Sad as a trauma center--10 years' experience].

Unlabelled: Trauma is a surgical disease and a leading cause of death in the population in the age of forties. The Institute for Surgery in Novi Sad (trauma center of the first rank) takes care of all injured people brought to the Institute either directly from the place of accident or from other centers.

Aim Of The Study: Retrospective analysis of the injured people treated at the Institute for Surgery in the period 1987-1996.

[Transplantation of the kidney at the medical school in Novi Sad--3 years' experience of an interdisciplinary transplantation team].

The interdisciplinary transplant team on Medical faculty--Novi Sad is formed at the beginning of the 1986, and first successfully cadaver binephrectomy was performed in April 1986, and kidneys was transported in Transplant Centre in Belgrade. The first human renal transplantation with cadaveric kidney was performed 20, May 1986, and result was excellent. The first human renal transplantation with living related kidney was performed 27, Sept 1986, and result also was excellent.