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A A Spence

Publications and source records attributed to A A Spence.

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PubMed1975

Anesthetic practice and pregnancy. Controlled survey of male anaesthetists in the United Kingdom.

7949 male doctors in the U.K. were surveyed to determine whether there was a relation between operating-theatre work (exposure) and abnormalities in the obstetric history of their marriages. Paternal exposure did not appear to influence the overall abortion-rate or the frequency of major congenital abnormality and involuntary infertility. The frequency of minor congenital abnormality in the children of exposed fathers was 3.09% compared with 2.35% (non-exposed). Maternal exposure was associated with a 15.5% frequency of abortion. Matching of exposed and non-exposed pregnancies with respect to birth order, maternal age, and smoking-habits suggests that the risk of abortion may increase by 158% to 271% with maternal exposure.

Abnormalities, Drug-Induced↗
PubMed1975

Respiratory effects of extradural nerve block in the postoperative period.

The effects of continuous extradural block in the postoperative period on arterial hypoxaemia are discussed. Comparing two matched groups of patients following upper abdominal surgery, one receiving continuous extradural analgesia and one narcotic analgesia, there were small but statistically insignificant improvements in PaO2 in the former group. It was concluded that abdominal muscle spasm is not an important cause of postoperative arterial hypoxaemia.

Anesthesia, Epidural↗