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Blood Pressure , Parkinson Disease/physiopathology , Postoperative Complications/etiology , Humans , Laminectomy , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Gauges are old measures of thickness. They originated in the British iron wire industry at a time when there was no universal unit of thickness. The sizes of the gauge numbers were the result of the process of wire-drawing and the nature of iron as a substance. Gauges were measured and described in fractions of an inch during the 19th century. In the UK, one gauge was standardised and legally enforced as the Standard Wire Gauge. One important reason for the standardisation of the gauge was the convenience of craftsmen. In the 20th century, the gauge was to be replaced with the introduction of the International System of Units. However, within the field of anaesthesia at the threshold of the 21st century, the gauge seems hard to remove from the minds of craftsmen like anaesthetists.
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Weights and Measures/history , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , History, Medieval , Humans , International System of Units/history , Legislation as Topic/history , Needles/history , Needles/standards , Reference Standards , United Kingdom , Weights and Measures/standardsABSTRACT
The national recommendations for standard of anaesthetic practice in six countries of the European Community are compared with respect to the attendance of the anaesthesiologist to the patient. These standards apply to anaesthesia, major regional anaesthesia and sedation administered by anaesthesiologists. The attendance to the patient varies from strict continuous presence of the anaesthesiologist to observation of the patient by a non-medical assistant and the anaesthesiologist taking care of another anaesthetized patient. Items which all standards should mention are defined.
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Anesthesiology/standards , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Anesthesia/standards , Anesthesiology/education , Belgium , Conscious Sedation/standards , European Union , France , Germany , Humans , Italy , Monitoring, Intraoperative/standards , Netherlands , Physician Assistants , United KingdomABSTRACT
In a retrospective survey of 10,632 children (ASA class 1-2, age over 3 months, weight over 5 kg) it was investigated how many children were admitted to the hospital either immediately or within a week after day-care surgery under general anaesthesia and what the indication for admission was. 9,479 children were between 1 and 9 years old. The most prevalent procedures were adeno(tonsillec)tomy, tympanotomy, circumcision and herniorrhaphy. 103 children (0.97%) were admitted, 67 of them straight from the day-care ward. The most prevalent indication was haemorrhage after adeno(tonsillec)tomy or circumcision. From the admitted children 17 needed a reintervention under anaesthesia. Differences with data from the literature are discussed. The authors see no reason to reassess the indications for day-care surgery in children.
