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K M Hunter

Publications and source records attributed to K M Hunter.

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PubMed1994

Effect of flumazenil on the recovery from intravenous midazolam.

Psychomotor recovery characteristics were studied in young, healthy patients undergoing intravenous sedation using midazolam for the extraction of third molars. There were significant changes to Choice Reaction Time and Critical Flicker Fusion Threshold noted half an hour after the administration of midazolam (P < 0.001). The administration of the benzodiazepine antagonist flumazenil significantly improved the Choice Reaction Times, but failed to reverse changes in Critical Flicker Fusion Threshold up to 120 minutes later. However, the use of flumazenil assured that no post-operative changes in oxygen saturation occurred in any of the patients.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1993

Overview: "the whole story".

Narrative ethics calls for "thick" description, but even a very detailed story, one that includes a number of viewpoints, will not necessarily point the way to an easy answer, a right answer, or a happy ending.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1990

A comparison of midazolam with and without nalbuphine for intravenous sedation.

The introduction of nalbuphine to intravenous sedation with midazolam added little to the quality of sedation for short operative procedures. There was a greater tendency for patients who received nalbuphine and midazolam to sleep in the afternoon after treatment compared with those who received only midazolam. Significantly more patients had nausea and vomiting in the midazolam/nalbuphine group than did patients in the midazolam-only group.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Bacteraemia and tissue damage resulting from air polishing.

This study investigates the production of bacteraemia in dental prophylaxis by use of a commercially available air polishing device. Prophylaxis by means of the conventional rubber cup and paste method was used as a control. The study showed that air polishing can result in loss of epithelium at the gingival margin. The likelihood of a bacteraemia resulting from air polishing, in the absence of gingivitis, was less than in the group undergoing conventional prophylaxis. Although a higher number of bacteraemias was seen in the control group, the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant. Results indicate that patients who are at risk continue to require antibiotic cover.

Air↗
PubMed1989

Multiple intra-cranial hemorrhages after carotid endarterectomy.

Intra-cerebral hemorrhage is an unusual and often fatal complication of endarterectomy (CEA). Previous cerebral infarction, intra-operative or post operative hypertension, and the use of anti-coagulants are some of the defined major risk factors. Hemorrhage usually occurs early after CEA, and a second hemorrhage has only once been reported. We wish to report a patient who developed three separate hemorrhages following CEA. This patient had a long history of poorly controlled hypertension. We believe that poorly controlled hypertension, in addition to other reported factors, may be an important separate risk factor for post-CEA hemorrhage.

Carotid Artery Diseases↗
PubMed1989

A science of individuals: medicine and casuistry.

Clinical medicine is the application of scientific principles, rules of thumb, and a store of practical wisdom embodied in narratives of individual cases to the care of a person who is ill. Physicians are taught to observe and report the individual case both as a means of fitting nomothetic generalizations to the given circumstances and as a way of refining those generalizations. This narrative construction of illness is a principal way of knowing in medicine. In this view, disease is not so much an entity as an identifiable chronological organization of the events of illness, and medicine, rather than a science, a rational science-using activity in the service of the ill.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1989

Ethics education at Northwestern University Medical School.

The Northwestern University Medical School's Ethics and Human Values Program spans the medical curriculum from first year to fourth and extends into several residency programs. Taught by scholars in the medical humanities and clinicians from almost every specialty, the courses and seminars draw upon philosophy, literature, and law in addressing both immediately pressing social issues and the enduring "everyday ethics" of the physician-patient relationship.

Chicago↗
PubMed1988

Making a case.

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis↗