Hospital anaesthesia and general practice.

Hospital and General Practice Level

The pattern of anaesthesia in a general hospital.

An accurate knowledge of the existing pattern of clinical practice is essential for the proper assessment of therapy, the design of research, the planning of medical education, the efficient use of medical manpower and the design of and financial provision for new hospitals. In the field of anaesthesia the pattern of practice in large busy hospitals is most easily and accurately revealed by a s...

Experience with hypotensive anaesthesia in a peripheral general hospital.

Twenty patients undergoing various surgical procedures were anaesthetised using hypotensive anaesthesia using labetalol and halothane. The technique is safe, predictable and cheap. This technique also offers the advantage of usage of less blood, thus minimising the complications of transfusion induced diseases like hepatitis and AIDS.

CLINICAL PRACTICE Assessment of surgical stress during general anaesthesia

Clinical Research, GE Healthcare Finland Oy, PO Box 900, FI-00031 GE, Helsinki, Finland. VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland, PO Box 1300, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland. Department of Anaesthesia, ENT and Eye Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, PO Box 340, FI-00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland. Department of Anaesthesia, Tampere University Hospital, PO Box 2000, FI-33521 Tampere, Finlan...

Scandinavian clinical practice guidelines on general anaesthesia for emergency situations.

Emergency patients need special considerations and the number and severity of complications from general anaesthesia can be higher than during scheduled procedures. Guidelines are therefore needed. The Clinical Practice Committee of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine appointed a working group to develop guidelines based on literature searches to assess evide...