BACKGROUND: The initial findings from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA)
Registry (1994–1997) revealed that medication-related causes, often cardiovascular …

Background The Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry was formed in
1994 in an attempt to determine the clinical factors and outcomes associated with cardiac …

Practice guidelines for central venous access: a report by the American Society of
Anesthesiologists Task Force on Central Venous Access Practice guidelines for central venous …

BACKGROUND: From 1994 to 2005, the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry
collected data on 373 anesthesia-related cardiac arrests (CAs) in children, 34% of whom …

Background Since 1985, the Committee on Professional Liability of the American Society of
Anesthesiologists has evaluated closed anesthesia malpractice claims. This study …

The paper presents simplified rules to account for embedment and soil layering in the soil-
structure interaction problem, to be used in dynamic analyses. The relationship between the …

Over the past 50 years the incidence of anesthesia‐related cardiac arrest has declined,
despite increased patient co‐morbidities, the most significant determinant of anesthetic risk …

Pulmonary and systemic vascular responses to ketamine (2 mg [middle dot] kg-1,
intravenously) were studied during cardiac catheterization in 20 children with congenital …

We studied the hemodynamic effects of propofol during elective cardiac catheterization in 30
children with congenital heart disease. Sixteen patients were without cardiac shunt (Group …

The three-step or substructure approach to the solution of soilstructure interaction problems
becomes particularly convenient when analytical or semi-analytical solutions can be used …