[Pocket informatics in anesthesia]. / L'informatique de poche en anesthésie.

A simple, easy to use and inexpensive computerized system could optimize the evaluation of anaesthetic activities. Full processing of information remains our ideal but its difficulties and cost make it hardly possible yet. On the other hand, each anaesthetist can use, for example, a pocket Psion Computer which allows to register 15 items for each anaesthesia. All data are subsequently transferred to a Macintosh central computer. However this activity recording cannot be a substitute for the medical anaesthesia chart which remains essential.

[Evaluation of muscular trauma during extracorporeal lithotripsy by shock waves]. / Evaluation du traumatisme musculaire au cours de la lithotripsie extracorporelle par ondes de choc.

Serum creatine-kinase (CK) activity was monitored during ESWL in order to investigate muscular or even myocardial injury. Despite a significant increase at the sixth hour, the values observed remained in the normal range. The authors were therefore unable to conclude on any significant muscular damage.