Day and time of admissions to intensive care units - does it matter?

Background: The literature data pertaining to the significance of day and time of ICU admission for outcomes of patients are inconsistent. The issue has not been analysed in Poland to date. The aim of the study was to gather information about differences between patients admitted to ICU outside regular working hours (off-hours) and those admitted during working hours (on-hours).

[Effect of retrobular agents on IOP--state of knowledge].

Close cooperation between ophthalmologist and anaesthetist is essential to success in treatment of patients with elevated IOP. Therapeutic procedures carrying out by anaesthetist include possibility of correction of basic extrabulbar factors influencing the IOP. Most important is possibility of controlling circulatory and respiratory parameters and influence on vascular flow in eye arteries.