High Risk of Postoperative Urinary Retention in 1-Year-Old Cleft Palate Patients: An Observational Study.

Purpose: Estimate the frequency of urinary catheterizations in a high-risk population of children.

Design: It was a descriptive, observational study.

Methods: Incidence of postoperative urinary retention was recorded for one-year-old cleft palate surgery patients admitted to the postanaesthesia care unit or pediatric intensive care unit at Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.

Lactate elimination and glycogen resynthesis after intense bicycling.

Objective: Muscles break down glycogen to lactate during intense exercise, and in the recovery period, glycogen reappears while lactate disappears. The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent lactate is resynthesized to glycogen within the formerly active muscles themselves in man.

Material And Methods: Fifteen healthy young men cycled for 2 min to exhaustion.

[Lung edema follows inspiratory stridor--another pitfall for the anesthesiologist].

Background: Patients with heart failure or elevated intracranial pressure are at risk of developing lung oedema when anaesthesized. Lung oedema may develop in patients with airway obstructions as well.

Material And Results: We refer to a four-year-old boy anaesthesized for elective adenotomia and paracentesis.