Guidelines on human factors in critical situations 2023.

Objective: To provide guidelines to define the place of human factors in the management of critical situations in anaesthesia and critical care.

Design: A committee of nineteen experts from the SFAR and GFHS learned societies was set up. A policy of declaration of links of interest was applied and respected throughout the guideline-producing process.

Standardised handover process with checklist improves quality and safety of care in the postanaesthesia care unit: the Postanaesthesia Team Handover trial.

Background: Miscommunication is a leading cause of preventable incidents in healthcare. A number of checklists have been created in an attempt to improve patient outcomes with only a small impact. However, the 2009 WHO Surgical Safety Checklist demonstrated benefits in terms of reduced morbidity and mortality.

Effects of Wildflower Strips and an Adjacent Forest on Aphids and Their Natural Enemies in a Pea Field.

Landscape diversification is a key element for the development of sustainable agriculture. This study explores whether the implementation of habitats for pest natural enemies enhances conservation biological control in an adjacent field. In the present study conducted in Gembloux (Belgium) in 2016, the effect of two different habitats (wildflower strips and a forest) and aphid abundance on the density of aphid natural enemies, mummified aphids and parasitism on pea plants was assessed through visual observations.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)-based intercropping systems for biological pest control.

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most cultivated crops in temperate climates. As its pests are mainly controlled with insecticides that are harmful to the environment and human health, alternative practices such as intercropping have been studied for their potential to promote biological control.

Checklist of Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Aphelinus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) species from Belgium with respectively four and three new records.

Aphid parasitoids have good potential for crop protection. However, they have been poorly studied in Belgium, especially in terms of species diversity. Therefore, the aim of this work was to establish the first checklist for the country.

A comparison of the cardiopulmonary effects of pressure controlled ventilation and volume controlled ventilation in healthy anesthetized dogs.

Objective: To compare the effects of pressure controlled ventilation (PCV) with volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) on lung compliance, gas exchange, and hemodynamics in isoflurane-anesthetized dogs.

Design: Prospective randomized study.

Setting: Veterinary teaching hospital.

The limits of succinylcholine for critically ill patients.

Background: Urgent tracheal intubations are common in intensive care units (ICU), and succinylcholine is one of the first-line neuromuscular blocking drugs used in these situations. Critically ill patients could be at high risk of hyperkalemia after receiving succinylcholine because one or more etiologic factors of nicotinic receptor upregulation can be present, but there are few data on its real risk. Our objectives in this study were to determine the factors associated with arterial potassium increase (ΔK) and to assess the occurrence of acute hyperkalemia ≥6.