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A F Merry

Publications and source records attributed to A F Merry.

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PubMed1986

The relationship of duration of fast to the volume and pH of gastric contents.

Volume and pH of gastric contents were measured after anaesthetic induction in 99 in-patients undergoing general and vascular surgery scheduled for either morning (50) or afternoon (49) lists. Significantly fewer patients in the morning group had pH values below 2.5. The mean pH value of the morning group was significantly higher than that of the afternoon group. There was a positive correlation between duration of fast and pH (the longer the more alkaline) for the groups combined. No significant relationship could be shown for any factor with volume.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Posture and the spread of extradural analgesia in labour.

Thirty-five patients kept in a sitting position for 5 min after a standard extradural injection in labour were compared with 54 patients maintained in the left lateral position throughout. The mean upper limit of analgesia was unchanged. A significant shift of the mean lower limit occurred in the sitting patients (P = 0.05, two-tailed), but contrary to classical teaching this was in a cephalad direction. Successful sacral blockade (analgesia at S234) and asymmetry of blockade occurred in a similar proportion of each group. It was concluded that the sitting position conferred no clinical advantage to patients receiving extradural analgesia in labour.

Anesthesia, Epidural↗