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Difficult Intubation Provokes Bacteremia [PDF]

Surgical Infections, 2008
To evaluate the prevalence of bacteremia after mask ventilation, laryngoscopy, and endotracheal intubation before induction of general anesthesia and to discover any correlation between traumatic manipulations and bacteremia. The specific bacteria responsible, knowledge of which may guide the prophylactic use of antibiotics, also were investigated ...
Konstantinou, Evangelos, Avraamidou, Alexandra, Tsakiri, Maria, Voros, Dionisios, Argyra, Eriphili, Fotis, Theofanis, Baltopoulos, George   +6 more
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Assessment of Difficult Intubation Predictors in Different Populations of Turkey

Journal of Contemporary Medicine, 2020
Difficult tracheal intubation is defined when tracheal intubation requires multiple attempts, in the presence or absence of tracheal pathology. Most importantly, difficult intubation differs between countries and populations.
Ali Bestemi Kepekçi, Serkan Telli, Elif Erdoğan, Hatice Pınar Yavaşça   +3 more
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Difficult airway and difficult intubation in postintubation tracheal stenosis: a case report and literature review

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2012
Paul Zarogoulidis,1 Theodoros Kontakiotis,1 Kosmas Tsakiridis,2 Michael Karanikas,3 Christos Simoglou,4 Konstantinos Porpodis,1 Alexandros Mitrakas,3 Agisilaos Esebidis, 3 Maria Konoglou,5 Nikolaos Katsikogiannis,6 Vasilis Zervas,1 Christina Aggelopoulou,
Zarogoulidis P, Kontakiotis T, Tsakiridis K, Karanikas M, Simoglou C, Porpodis K, Mitrakas A, Esebidis A, Konoglou M, Katsikogiannis N, Zervas V, Aggelopoulou C, Mikroulis D, Zarogoulidis K   +13 more
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Difficult Ventilation in an Infant After Successful Intubation

, 2022
Manufacturing defects in the connector of the endotracheal tube are not frequently encountered in emergency and planned intubations. In cases where they are encountered, however, they may cause partial or complete airway obstruction in sick infants with ...
Kubra Evren Sahin, Canan Salman Onemli, Şahin, Kübra Evren, Önemli, Canan Salman   +3 more
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Difficult intubation in the parturient [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, 1989
Difficult or failed tracheal intubation is an important cause of anaesthetic-related maternal morbidity and mortality. The incidence of failed intubation in parturients is estimated to be as frequent as 1 in 500; that of mortality is unknown, although some 10-13 pregnant women in England, Scotland and Wales die each year because of anaesthetic-related ...
J M, Davies, S, Weeks, L A, Crone, E, Pavlin   +3 more
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Difficult laryngoscopy and intubation in the Indian population: An assessment of anatomical and clinical risk factors

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2013
Background and Aim: Differences in patient characteristics due to race or ethnicity may influence the incidence of difficult airway. Our purpose was to determine the incidence of difficult laryngoscopy and intubation, as well as the anatomical features ...
Smita Prakash, Amitabh Kumar, Shyam Bhandari, Parul Mullick, Rajvir Singh, Anoop Raj Gogia   +5 more
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Airway Management in Neuroanesthesia

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023
Neurosurgical patients have specific airway management. Various conditions and diagnoses make intubation difficult and may also cause neurological damage.
Tamara Murselović, Alka Makovšek
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A comparison of the upper lip bite test with hyomental/thyrosternal distances and mandible length in predicting difficulty in intubation: A prospective study

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2011
The incidence of difficulty in tracheal intubation has been reported to range from 0.5 to 18% in patients undergoing surgery. We aimed to elucidate the role of upper lip bite test (ULBT) with other prevailing tests, hyomental/thyrosternal distances (HMD ...
Zahid Hussain Khan, Anahid Maleki, Jalil Makarem, Mostafa Mohammadi, Ramooz Hussain Khan, Ali Zandieh   +5 more
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Awake Tracheal Intubation sebagai Pendekatan Anestesi pada Pasien dengan Predictive Difficult Airway: Laporan Kasus dari Perspektif Frontliner

Jurnal Anestesi Perioperatif, 2023
Laporan kasus ini bertujuan meningkatkan kesadaran tentang tantangan risiko dan pengelolaan masalah jalan napas yang sulit di daerah pedesaan dengan kekurangan fasilitas di ruang operasi.
Rani Pradnya Swari, Dewa Ngakan Gde Dwija Sanjaya   +1 more
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PREDICTING DIFFICULT INTUBATION

British Journal of Anaesthesia, 1988
The amount of larynx seen at intubation was assessed in 633 adult patients undergoing routine surgery. Various measurements of the head and neck were made in an attempt to discover which features were associated with difficulty with laryngoscopy (defined as the inability to see even the arytenoids).
M E, Wilson, D, Spiegelhalter, J A, Robertson, P, Lesser   +3 more
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