4 results on '"Murphy, G. S."'
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2. Effect of ventilation on cerebral oxygenation in patients undergoing surgery in the beach chair position: a randomized controlled trial.
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Murphy GS, Szokol JW, Avram MJ, Greenberg SB, Shear TD, Vender JS, Levin SD, Koh JL, Parikh KN, and Patel SS
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- Adult, Aged, Anesthesia, General, Blood Pressure physiology, Carbon Dioxide blood, Endpoint Determination, Female, Heart Rate physiology, Hemodynamics physiology, Humans, Hypoxia epidemiology, Intraoperative Period, Male, Middle Aged, Phenylephrine therapeutic use, Postoperative Complications epidemiology, Shoulder surgery, Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared, Vasoconstrictor Agents therapeutic use, Oxygen Consumption physiology, Patient Positioning methods, Respiration, Artificial methods
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Background: Surgery in the beach chair position (BCP) may reduce cerebral blood flow and oxygenation, resulting in neurological injuries. The authors tested the hypothesis that a ventilation strategy designed to achieve end-tidal carbon dioxide (E'(CO₂)) values of 40-42 mm Hg would increase cerebral oxygenation (Sct(O₂)) during BCP shoulder surgery compared with a ventilation strategy designed to achieve E'(CO₂) values of 30-32 mm Hg., Methods: Seventy patients undergoing shoulder surgery in the BCP with general anaesthesia were enrolled in this randomized controlled trial. Mechanical ventilation was adjusted to maintain an E'(CO₂) of 30-32 mm Hg in the control group and an E'(CO₂) of 40-42 mm Hg in the study group. Cerebral oxygenation was monitored continuously in the operating theatre using near-infrared spectroscopy. Baseline haemodynamics and Sct(O₂) were obtained before induction of anaesthesia, and these values were then measured and recorded continuously from induction of anaesthesia until tracheal extubation. The number of cerebral desaturation events (CDEs) (defined as a ≥20% reduction in Sct(O₂) from baseline values) was recorded., Results: No significant differences between the groups were observed in haemodynamic variables or phenylephrine interventions during the surgical procedure. Sct(O₂) values were significantly higher in the study 40-42 group throughout the intraoperative period (P<0.01). In addition, the incidence of CDEs was lower in the study 40-42 group (8.8%) compared with the control 30-32 group (55.6%, P<0.0001)., Conclusions: Cerebral oxygenation is significantly improved during BCP surgery when ventilation is adjusted to maintain E'(CO₂) at 40-42 mm Hg compared with 30-32 mm Hg., Clinical Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01546636., (© The Author [2014]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Journal of Anaesthesia. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- 2014
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3. The effect of a new NPO policy on operating room utilization.
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Murphy GS, Ault ML, Wong HY, and Szokol JW
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- Adult, Ambulatory Surgical Procedures, Anesthesia, General, Cohort Studies, Confidence Intervals, Drinking, Foreign Bodies etiology, Gastroesophageal Reflux etiology, Hospitals, Teaching organization & administration, Humans, Intubation, Intratracheal, Patient Admission, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Time Factors, Trachea, Treatment Refusal, Fasting, Operating Rooms statistics & numerical data, Policy Making
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Study Objectives: To prospectively assess the impact of a liberalized preoperative fasting policy on operating room (OR) utilization., Study Design: Prospective cohort study involving data collection before and after a change in nil per os (NPO) policy., Setting: Academic teaching hospital., Patients: 5,420 consecutive outpatients and AM admissions., Interventions: Data collection was done on all adult patients who presented to our OR suite over two 15-week periods. During the first 15-week period, patients were instructed to drink no liquids after midnight (control group, n = 2,646). In the second 15-week period, patients were allowed to consume unlimited clear fluids until 2 to 3 hours prior to surgery (study group, n = 2,774)., Measurements and Main Results: We found no difference between the control and study groups in the number of cases cancelled (0 in each group) or delayed (8 vs. 9; relative risk [RR] = 1.07, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.000 to 1.148) due to noncompliance with fasting guidelines. There was no difference between the groups in the number of cases of aspiration (0 in each group). In the control group, significantly more episodes of regurgitation were noted (12 vs. 9; RR = 0.715, 95% CI = 0.535 to 0.955) and more rapid-sequence/awake intubations were performed (119 vs. 51; RR = 0.409, 95% CI = 0.306 to 0.546) than in the study group., Conclusions: Liberalizing a preoperative fasting policy and allowing patients to consume unrestricted clear fluids up until 3 hours before their scheduled time of surgery did not affect their compliance with fasting requirements. No increase in cancellations or delays of surgical procedures due to inappropriate oral intake was observed.
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- 2000
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4. Vivax malaria resistant to treatment and prophylaxis with chloroquine.
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Murphy GS, Basri H, Purnomo, Andersen EM, Bangs MJ, Mount DL, Gorden J, Lal AA, Purwokusumo AR, and Harjosuwarno S
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- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, DNA, Protozoan genetics, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Humans, Infant, Malaria, Falciparum drug therapy, Malaria, Falciparum parasitology, Malaria, Vivax parasitology, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Quinine therapeutic use, Chloroquine therapeutic use, Malaria, Vivax drug therapy
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Chloroquine has been the treatment of choice for vivax malaria for more than 40 years. Lately, several case-reports have suggested the emergence of resistance to chloroquine in Plasmodium vivax in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. We undertook prospective treatment and prophylaxis trials of chloroquine in children and adults with vivax malaria living in Irian Jaya (Indonesia New Guinea). 46 villagers with P vivax parasitaemia were treated with chloroquine by mouth (25 mg base/kg body weight divided over 3 days) and followed up for 14 days. Parasitaemia cleared initially but recurred within 14 days in 10 (22%) subjects. All recurrences were in children younger than 11 years, 7 of whom were younger than 4 years; the failure rate among children under 4 was 70%. 7 of the patients with recurrences were given a second course of chloroquine. In all, the infections initially cleared but recurrent parasitaemia developed in 5 (71%) within 14 days. Whole-blood chloroquine concentrations were consistently above those previously shown to cure P vivax blood infections (90 micrograms/L whole blood). Subjects whose initial infections cleared and who had no parasitaemia on day 14 received weekly prophylaxis with chloroquine. Despite the presence of expected blood chloroquine concentrations, P vivax parasitaemia developed in 9 of 17 subjects receiving prophylaxis during 8 weeks of follow-up (median time to parasitaemia 5.3 weeks). Chloroquine can no longer be relied upon for effective treatment or chemoprophylaxis of P vivax blood infections acquired in this part of New Guinea.
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- 1993
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