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R Makker

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PubMed2001

Computerised dynamic posturography to assess recovery comparing general anaesthesia with sedation and local anaesthesia for day case nasal surgery.

Computerised dynamic posturography (CDP) can be used as an early marker of recovery to street fitness in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. We studied three groups of patients undergoing nasal surgery. The goal of this study was to determine whether recovery, as assessed by CDP, is more rapid in patients having nasal surgery under sedation coupled with local anaesthesia or those having surgery under general anaesthesia. We further assessed the acceptability of sedation accompanied by local anaesthesia. A control group was included to determine if there is a learning curve to posturography. There was no difference between the two study groups in terms of balance. Balance was not significantly impaired at 3 h postoperative testing.

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PubMed1989

Trace elements in the endometrium of infertile women.

Some essential trace elements were estimated in endometrium of regularly menstruating fertile women and in women with infertility due to cervical factors. The distribution of the trace elements zinc, copper, iron, selenium and manganese at any particular phase of cycle remains more or less semilier between control (i.e. fertile) and infertile (primary and secondary) subjects.

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Evaluation of advanced cardiac life support in a community teaching hospital by use of actual cardiac arrests.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the retention of Advanced Cardiac Life Support training of internal medicine residents as a function of the time since successfully completing ACLS training. DESIGN: Prospective, consecutive sample of patients who underwent a cardiopulmonary resuscitation effort directed by physicians who successfully completed ACLS. SETTING: Eastern community teaching hospital. PATIENTS: 180 consecutive patients over the age of 18 years who sustained a cardiopulmonary arrest and whose resuscitation efforts were directed by physicians who successfully completed ACLS. Forty-five additional resuscitative efforts hospital wide were led by non-ACLS-trained physicians during the study period. OUTCOME MEASURES: Correctness of the diagnosis of rhythms and treatment of the rhythms diagnosed were assessed, as per ACLS protocols in effect at the time of the study, in 1991. INTERVENTION: None. RESULTS: Chi-squares were used for analysis. Seventy-six of the resuscitative efforts were run by medical residents with a 13.2% error rate. The error rate in the first 6 months after ACLS completion among residents was 5.1%, as compared with 21.6% in the next 6 months (p = 0.033), with no impact on actual survival rate. During the study period, error rates among other groups were 8.8% in Emergency Department physicians and 17.8% among non-ACLS-trained physicians. CONCLUSIONS: The error rate found was lower than in previous studies evaluating retention of ACLS education. It is important to have regular updates in ACLS to ensure proper protocol use.

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