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Browsing Anaesthesiology by Subject "Anaesthesia"
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Dippenaar, Johannes Marthinus (Tinus)
(Medpharm Publications, 2025-02-28)
As a cornerstone of modern surgical and perioperative practice, anaesthesiologists are tasked with ensuring patient comfort and procedural safety during the perioperative period. Anaesthesia, however, remains a high-risk ...
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Smith, Francois Jacobus; Jurgens, F.X.; Coetzee, J.F.; Becker, Piet J.
(Medpharm Publications, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Obesity changes body composition including fat free mass (FFM), regarded as the “pharmacologically active mass”. Scaling drug doses to obese patients by total body mass (TBM) results in overdose. We aimed to ...
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Du Preez, T.; Dippenaar, Johannes Marthinus (Tinus)
(MedPharm Publications, 2020)
BACKGROUND : Day case surgery offers advantages to the patient, the family and the performing institution. Children are excellent
candidates since they are generally healthy and often require brief surgical interventions. ...
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Steyn, Johan Daniel
(University of Pretoria, 2005-09-22)
Knowledge of the absorption of inhalation anaesthetic agents is essential if one is to safely administer them. Despite many years of research in linear science, no model has been described that can reliably predict inhalation ...
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Booysen, Karin; Dippenaar, Johannes Marthinus (Tinus); Smith, Francois Jacobus
(Medpharm Publications, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Body mass is commonly used to determine medication dosages and equipment size. In emergency situations
(including cases necessitating surgery) weighing paediatric patients can be impractical. Clinicians may ...