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Browsing Research Articles (Anaesthesiology) by UP Author "Smith, Francois Jacobus"
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Smith, Francois Jacobus; Bartel, Peter R.; Hugo, Johan M.; Becker, Piet J.
(Elsevier, 2006-08)
OBJECTIVES: Cardiac surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with neurologic deterioration. Several
interventions, including anesthetic techniques, have been designed to limit ischemic brain damage and have ...
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Spijkerman, Sandra; Smith, Francois Jacobus; Becker, Piet J.
(Medpharm Publications, 2007)
No abstract available
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Smith, Francois Jacobus; Geyser, M.M. (Mimi); Schreuder, I.; Becker, Piet J.
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-06-19)
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of different levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on pulse pressure variation
(PPV).
DESIGN: An observational study.
SETTING: Operating theatres of a tertiary training ...
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Smith, Francois Jacobus; Spijkerman, Sandra; Becker, Piet J.; Coetzee, J.F.
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-08)
BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that spectral entropy of the electroencephalogram as applied in the
M-Entropy S/5TM Module (GE Healthcare) does not detect the effects of nitrous oxide (N2O). The aim of this
study was ...
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Smith, P.; Smith, Francois Jacobus; Becker, Piet J.
(Medpharm Publications, 2008-05)
INTRODUCTION: Tracheal intubation is accompanied by an increased blood pressure and heart rate. The aim of this study was to find the most important source of this haemodynamic response, namely laryngoscopy or intubation. ...
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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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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 ...