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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 31;33(12):619-20. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

Unité de réanimation polyvalente de la Maison du Haut-Lévêque, service d'anesthésie réanimation 2, hôpital Haut Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, avenue Magellan, 33600 Pessac, France; Inserm U1034 adaptation cardiovasculaire à l'ischémie, université Bordeaux, 33600 Pessac, France.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 11;33(12):617-8. Epub 2014 Nov 11.

Pôle anesthésie réanimation douleur urgences, CHU de Nîmes, 30029 Nîmes, France.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):631-7. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Departments of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, Royaume-Uni.

Objective: Because of graft shortages, an experimental programme of organ donation after Maastricht 3-type circulatory death (M3) has been proposed by the French organ procurement organization (Agence de la biomedicine: ABM). The aim of the study was to estimate how many potential patients were eligible for an M3-type organ donation, amongst deceased patients who have had life-support withdrawn.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective study looking at the notes of deceased patients in a French general intensive care unit (ICU), where organ donation is arranged in DBD donors. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 18;33(12):712-3. Epub 2014 Nov 18.

Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, Royaume-Uni.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):708-9. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Service de réanimation polyvalente, CHU de La Réunion, site Félix-Guyon, allée des Topazes, CS11021, 97400 Saint-Denis, Réunion.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):690-2. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Département d'anesthésiologie, hôpital Antoine-Béclère, groupe hospitalier Paris Sud, 157, rue de la Porte-de-Trivaux, 92140 Clamart, France. Electronic address:

Anaesthetists often stand in the front line to manage postpartum neurological deficits, although epidural analgesia is rarely responsible for these complications. An epidural analgesia was performed to relieve pain during spontaneous labor in a 34-year-old parturient. An emergency C-section was subsequently required due to fetal heart rate abnormalities. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):648-54. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Département de réanimations et d'anesthésie ; SAMU-SMUR, CHU de Caen, avenue de la Côte-de-Nacre, 14033 Caen cedex, France; EA.4650-Signalisation, électrophysiologie et imagerie des lésions d'ischémie reperfusion myocardique, UFR de médecine, université Caen Basse-Normandie, avenue de la Côte-de-Nacre, 14032 Caen cedex, France.

Objective: Identify from the RéAC registry, out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest in Caen and it's suburbs, to study epidemiology and assess our medical practices.

Study Design: Observational, prospective and monocentric study.

Patients And Methods: From March 2012 to March 2013, we identified 151 patients. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):700-3. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Réanimation et Grands Brûlés, CHU Pointe-à-Pitre, CHU de Guadeloupe, route de Chauvel, 97159 Pointe-à-Pitre cedex, France.

We report the case of an 8-year-old sickle cell anemia child admitted for acute respiratory failure complicating acute chest syndrome. Because of threatening respiratory failure, tracheal intubation was performed immediately after ICU admission. The patient met the criteria for ARDS with a PaO2/FiO2 ratio of 94mmHg. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):626-30. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, pavillon P réanimation, hôpital Édouard-Herriot, 5, place d'Arsonval, 69437 Lyon cedex 03, France.

Objectives: During continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), circuit clotting increases nursing workload, cost of the therapy and blood loss. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a program designed to improve CRRT stability on unexpected circuit clotting.

Study Design: Retrospective and observational study. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):664-8. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital central, CHU de Nancy, 54000 Nancy, France.

In nasal and sinus surgery, the anaesthetist must share the operating field with the surgeon and take into account some patients' specific pathologies. Bleeding must be avoided by different means but the accurate gesture of the surgeon, added to the properties of the new anaesthetic drugs, may reduce the risk of this functional surgery. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 20;33(12):707-8. Epub 2014 Nov 20.

Service d'urgences-Smur, centre hospitalier Pasteur, rue Langevin, 33210 Langon, France.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 20;33(12):638-42. Epub 2014 Nov 20.

UPEC-université Paris-Est Créteil-Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France; Service d'anesthésie et des réanimations chirurgicales, hôpitaux universitaires Henri-Mondor, AP-HP, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Créteil, France.

Objectives: Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) are rare and severe soft tissue infections associated with a high mortality rate. In order to assess the management of NF in French-speaking intensive care units (ICUs), we conducted a survey endorsed by the French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (SFAR).

Study Design: Online self-administered survey. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):643-7. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, faculté de médecine de Tunis, centre de maternité et de néonatalogie de Tunis, université de Tunis El Manar, rue Jabel-Lakhdar, La Rabta, 1007 Tunis, Tunisie.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of HES 130/0.4 coloading compared to normal saline solution for prevention of hypotension during spinal anesthesia for elective caesarean section.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 5;33(12):615-6. Epub 2014 Nov 5.

Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital Saint-Antoine, université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, AP-HP, 184, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75571 Paris cedex 17, France. Electronic address:

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 15;33(12):655-63. Epub 2014 Nov 15.

Pôle anesthésie Samu urgences réanimations, université de Rennes 1, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guillou, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France. Electronic address:

Day surgery is often considered as a marker of the necessity of reorganizing the hospital to take care globally and so better meet the expectations of improvement of the management of patients. But the actual deployment of day surgery can also act as a real revelation of the stakes of conciliation between the regulations, which supervise professional practices and organization, and the functioning of hospitals. Between the regulations supervising hospitals and professional practices and the place of the recommendations, between the general legal framework of the medical activity and specific legal framework (decree of anesthesia of 1994) and the Evidence-Based Medicine, the pretext of the improvement of the patient flow in day surgery, recommended by several institutions (Sfar, ANAP, HAS), questions about the legal obligation of the passage of all the patients in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 16;33(12):611-4. Epub 2014 Nov 16.

Service d'anesthésie, réanimation chirurgicale, hôpital Saint-Louis, université Paris-Diderot, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75475 Paris cedex 10, France. Electronic address:

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 20;33(12):710-2. Epub 2014 Nov 20.

Services de gynéco-obstétrique, pôles femme mère enfants des sites Sud et Nord, CHU de la Réunion, Réunion; Centre d'investigation clinique, CHU de la Réunion, Réunion.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 18;33(12):704-5. Epub 2014 Nov 18.

Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, CHU de Reims, 51092 Reims cedex, France. Electronic address:

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 13;33(11):605-6. Epub 2014 Oct 13.

Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy, 92140 Clamart, France.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 13;33(11):603-5. Epub 2014 Oct 13.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, hôpital maternité Souissi, centre hospitalier universitaire Ibnsina, Rabat, Maroc.

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 13;33(11):596-9. Epub 2014 Oct 13.

Service de réanimation médico-chirurgicale, centre hospitalier de Versailles, site André-Mignot, 177, rue de Versailles, 78150 Le Chesnay, France. Electronic address:

Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing pneumonia is an unusual cause of community-acquired pneumonia associated with a high fatality rate. The specificities of its presentation must be known by the critical care doctor, in order to quickly make the diagnosis and start the right antibiotics and discuss adjunctive therapy with intravenous immunoglobin. Moreover, the management of close contacts (household and healthcare workers) of patient with such a pneumonia is not well-known. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 16;33(11):593-5. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

Service chirurgie maxillo-faciale, hôpital Roger-Salengro, CHRU de Lille, avenue du Pr Émile-Laine, 59037 Lille cedex, France.

Maxillo-facial traumas are frequent and most often occur in young patients. Naso-tracheal or orotracheal intubation may be contraindicated in case of combined occlusal fracture and nasal or ethmoido-nasal fracture. This study was carried out a clinical case of a patient treated at the Lille University Hospital for a maxillofacial trauma associating fracture of nose and maxilla. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 22;33(11):590-2. Epub 2014 Oct 22.

Service de réanimation médicale, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 20, rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris cedex 15, France; Faculté de médecine, université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France. Electronic address:

Introduction: Tracheal rupture is one of the most serious post-intubation complication. However, it is widely underestimated.

Clinical Case: An 86-year-old patient with a history of pancreas adenocarcinoma treated with gemcitabin was admitted in intensive care unit for an acute respiratory failure with no identified etiology. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 18;33(11):576-80. Epub 2014 Oct 18.

Centre national hospitalier et universitaire Hubert Koutoukou MAGA de Cotonou, Cotonou, Bénin.

Objective: To study the preoperative psychological experience and beliefs in adult patients scheduled for surgery at the University Hospital of Parakou.

Patients And Methods: A descriptive and analytical study with prospective data collection conducted over three months (June 1st to August 30, 2012) and involved 75 patients.

Results: Of the 108 patients scheduled for surgery, 75 patients (69. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 13;33(11):572-5. Epub 2014 Oct 13.

Pôle Femme-Mère-Nouveau-Né, hôpital Jeanne-de-Flandre, CHRU de Lille, 2, rue Eugène-Aviné, 59037 Lille cedex 1, France; EA 4489, environnement périnatal et santé, faculté de médecine, université Lille II, 42, rue Paul-Duez, 59800 Lille, France.

Objective: The flow rate of intravenous administration of vasoactive agents should be steady in order to prevent changes in hemodynamics. In the newborns, because the flow rate is often lower than 1mL/h, it is difficult to switch of the syringe. The aim of our study was to compare the variations of concentration of active substance delivered after a manual or an automatic switch off the syringe with three different volumes (10mL, 20mL and 50mL). Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 18;33(11):563-71. Epub 2014 Oct 18.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation, CHRU de Lille Jeanne-de-Flandre, avenue Oscar-Lambret, 59037 Lille, France.

Objective(s): Assess the efficacy and safety of tranexamic acid administration for the prevention and/or the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage.

Study Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.

Material And Methods: Systematic review of the literature with the aim of identifying prospective, randomised, controlled trials that assessed the effect of tranexamic acid on peripartum blood loss and transfusion requirement in three clinical contexts: (i) prevention of post-partum haemorrhage in case of elective caesarean section, (ii) prevention of post-partum haemorrhage in case of vaginal delivery, (iii) treatment of post-partum haemorrhage. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Nov 14;33(11):555-62. Epub 2014 Oct 14.

Centre de soins palliatifs Pavillon 1K, CHU de Lyon-Sud, hospices civils de Lyon, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Bénite cedex, France. Electronic address:

Objectives: Active treatment withholding and withdrawing decisions in the emergency room (ER) must be taken collegially according to ethical and juridical statements. Specific tools can support this process and our main goal was to create and validate such a tool.

Method: We created a first version of a tool to help for treatment withholding and withdrawing decisions inspired by similar documents from literature. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 20;33(12):693-5. Epub 2014 Nov 20.

Service d'anesthésie-réanimation chirurgicale, Nouvel hôpital civil, hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'Hôpital, BP 426, 67091 Strasbourg cedex, France.

Drug reaction with eosinophilia ans systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a severe medication-induced adverse reaction, which can threaten patient's life. Clinical symptoms and organ failures present wide variability. Furthermore, the latency period is long, so that diagnosis could be a real challenge in the intensive care unit. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 28;33(12):696-9. Epub 2014 Oct 28.

Service d'anesthésie réanimation, hôpital Nord, CHU de Saint-Étienne, avenue Albert-Raymond, 42270 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France.

The diagnosis of perioperative vertebral artery dissection can be difficult because of non-specific clinical signs. We report a case revealed by a tegmento-thalamic stroke after an abdominal second surgical look. The interest of this observation is related to a particular evolution in two steps separated by a 2-month-interval and an intercurrent cervical manipulation. Read More

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 2014 Dec 1;33(12):669-76. Epub 2014 Nov 1.

Département d'anesthésie réanimation, hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, 184, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an auto-immune disease characterized by vasculopathy and the combination of microangiopathy and tissue collagen deposit leading to skin, digestive, pulmonary, myocardial and renal injuries. These repercussions could be challenging for anesthesiologists and associated with difficulties in airway management, and occurrence of congestive right heart failure or acute kidney crisis. The aim of this review is to review the physiopathology and the progression of the SSc, as well as to provide a strategy of perioperative management of these patients. Read More