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Filter by:Safer Births is a research and development collaboration to establish new knowledge and new innovative products to better equip and increase competence of health workers for safer births and increased newborn survival worldwide. The main objectives are: To randomize different devices for fetal heart rate assessments. To assess if a novel Newborn Resuscitation Monitor will facilitate newborn resuscitation in a low-resource setting. To determine bag mask ventilation treatment and devices beneficial for neonatal outcome.
Background: Due to the lingering effects of general anesthesia and the administration of medications for pain after surgery, children in the recovery room are at risk for breathing problems. While there are less data specific to children, in general 25% of patients in the recovery room experience complications from anesthesia. The most common complications involve the patient's airway and their ability to breath adequately. Currently, checks of oxygenation with a pulse oximetry monitor and of respiration through nursing assessments are used to detect breathing problems. However, these are believed not to be adequate for reliably recognizing significant respiratory depression until other dangerous events develop such as the cessation of breathing, severe drops in oxygen levels, or cardiac arrest. Capnography is a monitoring device that measures the amount of carbon dioxide being exhaled and assesses the adequacy of respiration. A small plastic cannula sits at the base of the nose and on the lip to continuously monitor the patient's breathing. Most children tolerate this device well and staff consider it easy to use. While capnography is routinely used in the operating room to monitor breathing, it is not used during post-operative care when patients are still at risk of breathing problems. Objectives: To determine if capnography can detect problems with breathing faster and more often than traditional monitors. To determine if the addition of capnography to routine monitoring will decrease the numbers of additional adverse events that occur in children undergoing post-operative care by allowing nurses to intervene in care faster and more frequently. Methods: In the first phase of this study, the investigators will apply the capnography monitor to children in the recover room and determine how often they experience breathing difficulties measured by this device. In the second phase, the investigators will educate staff on the use of capnography and what values are considered abnormal. Children will again have the capnography cannula placed on them as they enter the recovery room. They will then be divided into two groups - in one group the nurses in the recovery room will have access to the capnography monitor for their patients, whereas in the other group the nurses will not be able to see the readout from the monitor. The investigators will determine if children have fewer breathing problems and less additional adverse events when nurses use capnography in addition to the routine monitors already in place in the recovery room as compared to when nurses use standard monitoring alone. Potential Impact: If capnography can detect breathing problems prior to being identified by current monitoring devices, staff may be able to intervene more quickly and before more serious events occur in the children receiving post-operative care. This can reduce adverse events, improve patient safety, and avert harm in children. The adoption of this device for routine monitoring of post-operative care has the potential to save lives.
Interscalene block with local anesthetic impairs ventilation (unilateral diaphragmatic dysfunction). Single injection of local anesthetic induced transitory dysfunction (< 24h). The investigators hypothesized that continuous interscalene block would prolonged ventilatory impairment
BACKGROUND Many patients in the trauma intensive care unit (TICU) require mechanical ventilation and sedation or anxiolysis. Mechanical ventilation means that a machine is helping a patient breathe if he can't breathe on his own. Because of the mechanical ventilation, these patients also require some medication to help keep them calm. These are called sedatives or anxiolytics. The purpose of this study is to see if acupuncture can lower the amount of sedation and anxiolysis needed by a subject during mechanical ventilation in the TICU. Acupuncture is a medical procedure. Hair-thin sterile needles are inserted at specific points on the body. PROCEDURES Some subjects will get acupuncture and others will get 'fake' acupuncture. By using 'fake' acupuncture, no one other than the acupuncturists will know which group a subject is in. Subjects and the team do not get to pick which subject is in which group. Instead, the groups are picked randomly. Subjects will get real or fake acupuncture twice a day for five days. Standard of care - Both groups will receive the standard of care while in the study. They will be mechanically ventilated and given sedatives and analgesics based on the TICU protocol. Real acupuncture group - This group will receive real acupuncture with real needles. These are stainless steel, one time use, needles. This group will also receive "ear tacks" which are like little needles that can stay on the ear for a few days. The ear tacks will be covered with a bandage so no one can tell which group the subject is in. Sham acupuncture group - This group will receive sham needles. These needles retract into themselves much like a 'magic sword' rather than poking the skin. Subjects in this group will not get ear tacks. In order to hide the group the subject is in, a bandage will be used to cover part of the ear. HYPOTHESIS Real acupuncture will decrease subject's sedation requirements by 30% when compared to the sham acupuncture group.
This study is designed to test the ability of a computer-based algorithm to detect and intervene in cases of narcotic-induced respiratory depression.
This study is designed to provide continued access to BEMA Fentanyl for those subjects who previously participated in FEN-202 and who wish to continue using BEMA Fentanyl for the treatment of their breakthrough cancer pain.
Spinal Administration of opioids offers segmental analgesia, but has side effects including pruritus, nausea and vomiting, urinary retention, hypotension, and respiratory depression, both early and delayed. Many Centres in the UK now routinely use supplementation of spinal anaesthesia from bupivacaine with intrathecal fentanyl or diamorphine. If Fentanyl is used, this is usually accompanied by connection to a i.v. Morphine patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)-device in the postoperative period, whereas the use of intrathecal diamorphine seems to result in a reduction in post-operative morphine requirements, which has obviated the need for PCA devices in many centres. There has been recent controversy over which opioid is safer to use with regards to the risk of respiratory depression.1,2 The investigators want to investigate, whether intrathecal diamorphine causes less or more post-operative respiratory depression in healthy mothers undergoing elective caesarean section than intrathecal fentanyl plus post-operative morphine PCA.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, efficacy, hemodynamic and respiratory stability of a low-dose of dexmedetomidine infusion in post-operative surgical in-patients undergoing thoracic surgery after discharge from PACU or ICU.