Current trends in emergency airway management: a clinical review [PDF]
Airway management is a fundamental and complex process that involves a sequence of integrated tasks. Situations requiring emergency airway management may occur in the emergency department, intensive care units, and various other clinical settings A ...
Sangun Nah +9 more
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No aspect of the practice of pediatric anesthesia is more essential than airway management. Pediatric anesthesiologists are the ‘go to’ specialists when infants and children with difficult airways present anywhere in the hospital. To our advantage, rapid
Hammer, Gregory B., Morton, Neil S.
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Simple, Timely, Safely? Laryngeal Mask and Pediatric Airway
Laryngeal mask airway (LMA) was a useful, powerful airway management device for routine pediatric airway management, pediatric difficult airway, and in pediatric emergency situations.
Marijana Karišik
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Improvement in Cormack and Lehane grading with laparoscopic assistance during tracheal intubation
Background: To use laparoscope as an easily available and easy to use alternative option to videolaryngoscope. Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the improvement in the glottic view using a conventional direct laryngoscope (DL) assisted by a ...
Anjeleena K Gupta +3 more
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Refraining from pre-hospital advanced airway management: a prospective observational study of critical decision making in an anaesthesiologist-staffed pre-hospital critical care service [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: We report prospectively recorded observational data from consecutive cases in which the attending pre-hospital critical care anaesthesiologist considered performing pre-hospital advanced airway management but decided to withhold such ...
Else Tønnesen +3 more
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Manifesto on small airway involvement and management in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an Interasma (Global Asthma Association - GAA) and World Allergy Organization (WAO) document endorsed by Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) and Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) [PDF]
Evidence that enables us to identify, assess, and access the small airways in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has led INTERASMA (Global Asthma Association) and WAO to take a position on the role of the small airways in these ...
A. Cruz +51 more
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Survival and quality of life benefit after endoscopic management of malignant central airway obstruction [PDF]
Although interventional management of malignant central airway obstruction (mCAO) is well established, its impact on survival and quality of life (QoL) has not been extensively studied.We prospectively assessed survival, QoL and dyspnea (using validated ...
Dimitropoulos, C +12 more
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Approach to the diagnosis and management of suspected exercise-induced bronchoconstriction by primary care physicians [PDF]
Background Exercise-related respiratory symptoms in the diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) have poor predictive value. The aim of this study was to evaluate how athletes presenting with these symptoms are diagnosed and managed in ...
James H Hull +26 more
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An evaluation of the relative efficacy of an open airway, an oxygen reservoir and continuous positive airway pressure 5 cmH2O on the non-ventilated lung [PDF]
Publisher's copy made available with the permission of the publisher © Australian Society of AnaesthetistsThe aim of this study, during one-lung ventilation, was to evaluate if oxygenation could be improved by use of a simple oxygen reservoir or ...
Benumof J.L. +18 more
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Education and training in advanced airway management as part of an anesthesiology residency program is necessary to help residents attain the status of expert in difficult airway management. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
Zana Borovcanin, Janine R. Shapiro
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