Publications by authors named "X Kieffer"

Article Synopsis
  • - This study highlighted the absence of guidelines for ketamine use in chronic pain in Europe, prompting a Delphi survey among experts to create a national consensus.
  • - The survey involved 28 specialists and found that 81.3% of the items achieved consensus, emphasizing ketamine's effectiveness primarily for neuropathic pain and a preferred administration method via intravenous infusion.
  • - The final conclusions support quarterly ketamine treatments in a hospital setting, a one-month effectiveness evaluation, and the recommendation to combine ketamine use with non-drug therapies.
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A simple, easy to use and inexpensive computerized system could optimize the evaluation of anaesthetic activities. Full processing of information remains our ideal but its difficulties and cost make it hardly possible yet. On the other hand, each anaesthetist can use, for example, a pocket Psion Computer which allows to register 15 items for each anaesthesia.

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Serum creatine-kinase (CK) activity was monitored during ESWL in order to investigate muscular or even myocardial injury. Despite a significant increase at the sixth hour, the values observed remained in the normal range. The authors were therefore unable to conclude on any significant muscular damage.

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