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N Cass

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PubMed2005

Anaesthesia in Hong Kong and the Faculty of Anaesthetists: 25 years of co-operation.

The development of anaesthetic services in Hong Kong started about five years after the Faculty of Anaesthetists, RACS, was founded. A nucleus of trained anaesthetists there sought assistance from the Faculty to establish adequate training posts and courses of instruction, and hence to provide consultants with an internationally accepted qualification. This paper describes the major features of the early decades of this development.

Anesthesiology↗
PubMed1980

Dosage patterns of non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockers in the sheep.

Eighty per cent paralysis was induced and maintained for 90 minute in the sheep by computer-controlled injection of gallamine, pancuronium, alcuronium or d-tubocurarine, using the integrated electromyogram as a measure of neuromuscular transmission. The dosage pattern consisted of a loading phase before any IEMG depression was detected, an onset phase during which a moderate amount of drug was required to achieve increasing paralysis, and a maintenance phase during which a substantially constant and relatively low infusion rate was required. The steady state rates of infusion in microgram/kg/min during "maintenance" was found to be 6.0 for gallamine, 0.15 for pancuronium, 0.2 for alcuronium and 0.5 for d-tubocurarine.

Alcuronium↗
PubMed1976

Medical writing.

Attempts to transfer information are often frustrated by errors in English. A few of these are analysed and some suggestions are made for avoiding them.

Authorship↗
PubMed1975

The biomedical engineer and the doctor.

The appearance of engineers with special training in biology has occurred only in the past fifteen years, and the spectacular contributions they can make to patient care have been confined mainly to the years since solid-state electronic circuitry became available. It is timely to review the relationships between them and the clinicians, and to indicate the growing interdependence they have on each other. The three points at which their interests converge most noticeably are: 1. in the collection, storage and display of data, 2. in the maintenance of electrical safety and the proper functioning of apparatus, and 3. in the design of electro-medical equipment.

Biomedical Engineering↗