Cardiac arrest during trichlorethylene anaesthesia.

Sudden death in strabismus surgery under local anaesthesia: a case report

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Some mechanisms of cardiac arrest during anaesthesia.

THE advent of thoracic surgery has been followed by a renewal of interest in the mechanisms and treatments of the acute cardiac catastrophes which may occur during clinical anaesthesia. It has now become apparent that the cessation of cardiodynamics during anaesthesia may be due either to ventricular fibrillation or to asystole unpreceded by fibrillary phenomena. Numerous authors have acclaimed...

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Perioperative cardiac arrest: a study of 53,718 anaesthetics over 9 yr from a Brazilian teaching hospital.

BACKGROUND Little information exists regarding factors influencing perioperative cardiac arrests and their outcome. This survey evaluated the incidence, causes and outcome of perioperative cardiac arrests in a Brazilian tertiary general teaching hospital between April 1996 and March 2005. METHODS The incidence of cardiac arrest during anaesthesia was prospectively identified from an anaesthes...

Suxamethonium-induced cardiac arrest as an initial manifestation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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