Biomedical subjects

R Wittig

Publications and source records attributed to R Wittig.

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PubMed1978

[Use of the inhalation anesthetics nitrous oxide and halothane in obstetrics].

By means of the literature of the latest years the advantages are discuss of nitrous oxide as analgesic and base anesthetic and of Halothan in the obstetrics.--Nitrous oxide can be regarded as especially favourable under consideration of a high PO2 proportion of the mother and under to the avoidance. Halothan is known as an optimal inhalation anesthetic for the inhibition of the intensive pain activity with the danger that can tear the uterus and is used successfully when intrauterine operations with desirable relaxing of uterus.--It has to be perferred the beta-adrenergicum Partusisten under the birth in danger because of its good manageableness.

Anesthesia, Obstetrical↗

PubMed1975

[Problems in the preoperative treatment of old patients].

Because of a higher duration of life the age surgical operations get higher importance also in the gynaecology. In elderly patients careful pre-operative treatment gives a reduction of lethality and morbidity. You must consider the shorted functional resources of the heart circulation system and the lungs and kindeys. Disturbances in electrolyte metabolism, water balance and acid-base regulation should optimally be compensated pre-operatively. At the same time the thrombosis prophylactic is a very important fact in the pre-operative treatment.

Acid-Base Equilibrium↗

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Effects of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty on the daytime sleepiness associated with sleep apnea syndrome.

Pre- and post-treatment nocturnal polysomnography and multiple sleep latency tests (MSLT) were done in thirty-one patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome who underwent uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. The treatment reduced by half the frequency of apneas and hypoxemia occurring during sleep and improved the excessive daytime sleepiness, but not all patients responded similarly. Among patients classified as responders, the frequency of apnea was reduced to a level seen in healthy adults of the same age, measures of sleep approached normal, and excessive sleepiness was eliminated. In nonresponders, frequency of apneas and consequent disruption of sleep was not reduced, but hypoxemia was improved. The MSLT differentiated responders from nonresponders who showed no MSLT improvement, although 70% reported a subjective improvement in excessive sleepiness. Measures of the apneas' disruptive effect on sleep and not its hypoxemic consequences were most predictive of improvement in excessive sleepiness.

Humans↗