[Multidisciplinary approach to treating life-threatening massive hemoptysis].

Massive hemoptysis is an alarming event in which asphyxiation due to aspiration of blood is the main threat. The differential diagnosis taking into consideration a wide range of potential causes is required, and in 5% to 20% of cases, the reason for bleeding is never established. Hypoxemia and rebleeding are the main life-threatening complications.

Cerebral salt wasting syndrome as a postoperative complication after surgical resection of acoustic neuroma.

Study Design: Retrospective case review.

Setting: Tertiary care, university hospital.

Patients: The authors describe two patients operated on for acoustic neuroma in whom hyponatremia occurred after intervention.

Ventilatory compensation for inspiratory resistive loads during anaesthesia with halothane or isoflurane.

We have analysed the ventilatory response to sustained inspiratory resistive loads in 14 patients, while awake and during halothane (n = 7) or isoflurane (n = 7) anaesthesia. Patients breathed halothane or isoflurane in oxygen at 1.2 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC).

[Diltiazem compared with placebo in the prevention of myocardial ischemia during non-cardiac surgery].

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of intravenous diltiazem to prevent myocardial ischemia during surgery on patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing non cardiac surgery under general anesthesia.

Patients And Method: Sixty patients scheduled for elective non cardiac surgery under general anesthesia were randomly assigned to two groups to receive diltiazem or placebo under double blind conditions. After an intravenous dose of 0.

Pneumocephalus after accidental dural puncture during epidural anesthesia.

BACKGROUND. Pneumocephalus developed in a 45-year-old woman after epidural anesthesia was performed to treat her low back pain. The cause was thought to be the loss of resistance to air technique.