Analytical evaluation of Sysmex UF-1000i for flow cytometric analysis of peritoneal fluid.

Objective: To evaluate analytical performance of Sysmex UF-1000i for peritoneal fluid analysis.

Methods: Functional sensitivity, imprecision, linearity and comparison studies were performed on peritoneal fluids.

Results: Total imprecision was 1.

Erythropoietin therapy and preoperative autologous blood donation in children undergoing open heart surgery.

We assessed the feasibility and efficacy of subcutaneous erythropoietin alpha (EPO) therapy and preoperative autologous blood donation (ABD) in children undergoing open heart surgery. Thirty-nine children were treated consecutively with EPO (100 U x kg(-1) s.c.

[Evaluation of a protocol of health surveillance for the personnel exposed to inhalation anesthetics in a sample of 3 operating rooms].

Objectives: To verify the results of a health surveillance protocol for personnel exposed to inhalation anaesthetics.

Design: Yearly follow-up of operating room personnel.

Setting: Operating theatres of a university hospital; one "clean" room with waste anaesthetic scavengers, a second older room an thus "dirty", a third room with appropriate technical requirements, but with a considerable environmental emission of anaesthetics.

[Intravenous versus inhalation anesthetics in anesthesia for bone marrow harvest for transplantation].

It is well known that nitrous oxide and many volatile anaesthetic drugs possess a certain degree of myelodepressive activity. The authors' aim has been to evaluate the degree of proliferative activity after exposure to forane or propofol. Bone marrow samples have been cultured after general anaesthesia induced and maintained by the same agents; cultures have also been performed after samples exposure to forane and propofol.

Behaviour of urinary D-glucaric acid excretion in surgical patients and anaesthesiology staff acutely exposed to isoflurane and nitrous oxide.

Liver function abnormalities have been observed in humans exposed to anaesthetics inhalation. Furthermore, experimental studies have revealed changes in microsomal enzyme activity caused by inhalation of a variety of anaesthetics. The study was designed to assess liver microsomal enzyme function by means of a simple non-invasive test, i.