[The obstruction of a port catheter during the induction of anesthesia].

A 44-year-old woman receiving home hyperalimetation with an implanted port catheter, was scheduled to undergo resection of ovarian cyst and adhesiotomy. For the induction of anesthesia, fentanyl 0.05 mg, thiopental sodium 200 mg, saline 5 ml and vecuronium 10 mg were given through the port catheter.

[A case of continuous infusion of milrinone during continuous venovenous hemofiltration causing high plasma concentration of milrinone].

A 79-year-old woman was undergoing chronic hemodyalysis. She received a continuous infusion of milrinone of 0.25 microg x kg(-1) x min(-1) for 77 hours, 0.

[Occupational exposure of operating room staff to anesthetic gases during inhaled induction--a comparison with intravenous anesthesia induction].

Background: The risk of occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gases still remains during inhaled induction. In this study we investigated how much we were occupationally exposed to anesthetic gases during induction period.

Methods: Twenty-six adult patients were induced with sevoflurane 5% using a face mask for three minutes and maintained with sevoflurane 1% after end-tracheal intubations (IH-Group).

[Intensive care management of acute pulmonary thromboembolism].

Three patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism, who had fallen into cardiopulmonary arrest or severe respiratory failure, were treated and saved in our intensive care unit. Two patients were resuscitated with percutaneous cardiopulmonary support device. Two patients underwent surgical embolectomy and we carefully applied positive pressure ventilation to prevent postoperative reperfusion pulmonary edema.