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General Anaesthesia (GA) is usually stopped early after intracranial surgery. An impaired neurological status or surgical difficulties may lead to sedate some patients (pts) in the intensive care unit (ICU). The aims of the study were to establish and to evaluate predictive criteria for post- operative sedation. In one group (G1), GA and mechanical ventilation (MV) were discontinued early after surgery and pts stayed at least 12 h. in the ICU. In the other group (G2), sedation and MV were prolonged 24 h., until a clinical and scannographic evaluation. Thereafter, sedation was discontinued or prolonged according to both surgical and anesthetic considerations. These criteria were established according to the literature and to local practices. Before surgery, they depended on clinical status, radiological data and etiology; during surgery, on surgical and medical semiology and difficulties or incidents during the procedure. Adult pts undergoing intracranial surgery under GA were consecutively included in a 6 months prospective study. Patients suffering acute head trauma, pre operative coma (Glasgow CS < 8) or extraneurologic disease (responsible for delayed MV weaning) were not included. Sedation was performed with midazolamR (.05-.15 mg.kg-1.h-1) + phenoperidineR without myorelaxation. The ideal level of sedation was established as defined by Boeke. One hundred and ninety five pts (80 f; 49 +/- 15y-o) were included (G1 = 130, G2 = 65). Surgical indications were: malignant tumor = 61, meningioma = 50, vascular disease = 53, other = 31. ICU stay lasted 5.6 +/- 8 d and MV 3.7 +/- 7 d.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Indications of planned sedation following intracranial neurosurgery. Prospective study of decisional criteria]. 759 51

A 55-year-old woman with a background of vascular disease presented with signs of bilateral limb ischaemia. Following elective axillobifemoral bypass and hospital discharge, accidental axillary trauma causing a chest wall haematoma, the patient underwent an emergency graft repair. Postextubation, she reported with absent sensation in her legs. Spinal cord infarction was diagnosed through clinical assessment and exclusion of other causes. The aetiology of compromise to the spinal cord blood supply is unclear. Possibilities include intraoperative hypotension, inadvertent compromise to blood supply of thoracic radicular arteries, dislodged atherosclerotic emboli or a combination of these factors. Spinal cord infarction recognised early can be treated. Sedation to assist ventilation had obscured the problem early enough to consider treatment. Patients with vascular risk factors should be carefully managed intraoperatively to minimise hypotensive episodes and care should also be taken not to compromise blood flow of radicular arteries.
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PMID:Surgical repair following trauma to vascular graft causing spinal cord infarction. 2473 53