Purpose: Percutaneously inserted central venous catheters are widely used. Catheter-related
bacteremia or fungemia is the most frequent serious complication of these catheters. In an …

We performed a prospective randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a chlorhexidine
dressing in reducing the microbial flora at the insertion site of epidural catheters. These …

IN 1976, A SURVEY of 26 cardiovascular centers was compiled for the Association of Cardiac
Anesthesiologists (Garman JK: Unpublished data, 1976). That survey showed that there …

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DISCUSSION From the results of skin testing, the authors and a consulting allergist concluded
that the patient had manifested a severe allergic reac-tion to thi amylal (Suri tal). Although …

THE MOST CHALLENGING and important problem facing an anesthesiologist caring for a
patient with coronary artery disease is the control of factors affecting myocardial oxygen …

Clinical Anesthesia for the PDA is the first (and so far, only) textbook of anesthesia formatted
for handheld computer use. This provides the essential content of the 4th edition of the …

Those of us who call ourselves “cardiac anesthesiologists” welcome the publication of the
first of several books to be published in the United States on this subject. The growth and …

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