[Air transport, aeronautic medicine, health].

There were 3.2 billion airline passengers in 2006, compared to only 30 million in 1950. Intercontinental health disparities create a risk of pandemics such as SARS and so-called bird flu.

[Anaesthetic preoperative assessment of chronic medications and herbal medicine use: a multicenter survey].

Objective: This study was undertaken to quantify the use of chronic medication and herbal remedies in the presurgical population.

Study Design: Prospective multicenter survey.

Patients And Methods: Adult patients presenting for anaesthesia were directly asked if they were currently using chronic medication or herbal remedies.

Recombinant activated factor VII efficacy and safety in a model of bleeding and thrombosis in hypothermic rabbits: a blind study.

Background: Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) is increasingly used to secure hemostasis in hemorrhagic situations in trauma and surgical patients. Hypothermia is often observed in these clinical settings.

Objective: To study the efficacy and safety of rFVIIa in hypothermia in a rabbit model of bleeding and thrombosis.

Differential diagnostic value of procalcitonin in surgical and medical patients with septic shock.

Objective: To assess whether different diagnostic and prognostic cutoff values of procalcitonin should be considered in surgical and in medical patients with septic shock.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of the Avicenne teaching hospital, France.

Postoperative residual neuromuscular block: a survey of management.

Background: To avoid postoperative residual neuromuscular block there is a need for a change in clinician's attitude towards monitoring and reversal. This study aims to evaluate changes of perioperative neuromuscular block management during the last decade in our institution and to quantify the incidence of postoperative residual neuromuscular block.

Methods: Patients receiving intermediate-acting neuromuscular blocking agents for scheduled surgical procedures during 3-month periods in 1995 (n=435), 2000 (n=130), 2002 (n=101), and in 2004 (n=218) were prospectively and successively enrolled in our study.