Publications by authors named "V E Bythell"
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- The case report discusses a patient who experienced an intrauterine death at 31 weeks of pregnancy and had a cardiorespiratory arrest during induced labor.
- The patient was using a remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for pain management at the time of the incident.
- After resuscitation efforts, which involved a peri-mortem cesarean section, the patient made a complete recovery.
A pre-use check to ensure the correct functioning of anaesthetic equipment is essential to patient safety. The anaesthetist has a primary responsibility to understand the function of the anaesthetic equipment and to check it before use. Anaesthetists must not use equipment unless they have been trained to use it and are competent to do so.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere are increasing numbers of combined heart-lung transplants being carried out in young people for end-stage pulmonary disease. There have-to-date been few reports of pregnancy in heart-lung transplant recipients. We report on the successful outcome of three pregnancies involving two patients following heart-lung transplantation.
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