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Anaesthesia and Intensive Care [PDF]

, 2004
The anaesthetist has seen his role steadily expand and it is hard to think of one medical specialty in which anaesthetists are not involved at least to some extent.
Aquilina, Andrew, Sciberras, Stephen C.
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Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey [PDF]

, 2013
Background: On average 7% of patients admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) suffer from a potentially preventable ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Our objective was to survey attitudes and practices of ICUs doctors in the field of VAP prevention.
Agodi, Antonella, Blot, Stijn, Frank, Uwe, Hiesmayr, Michael, Ingenbleek, Anne, Lambert, Marie-Laurence, Lepape, Alain, Palencia Herrejon, Eduardo, Palomar, Mercedes   +8 more
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Development and Evaluation of an Internet-Based Airway Evaluation Tutorial [PDF]

, 2003
Airway evaluation and basic management are essential skills for all physicians. Identifying patients for whom mask ventilation or endotracheal intubation will be difficult to impossible is vital for patient safety.
Euliano ,MD, Tammy Y., Lee, Amy I., Melker ,MD, Jeremy, Schmalfuss ,MD, Ilona M.   +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 Airway Intubation with Flexible Bronchoscope

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2013
Background and objective: To describe the efficacy and safety of a flexible bronchoscopy intubation (FBI) protocol in patients with difficult airway. Method: We reviewed the medical records of patients diagnosed with difficult airway who underwent flexible ...
Ascedio Jose Rodrigues, Paulo Rogério Scordamaglio, Addy Mejia Palomino, Eduardo Quintino de Oliveira, Marcia Jacomelli, Viviane Rossi Figueiredo   +5 more
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C-MAC videolaryngoscope compared with direct laryngoscopy for rapid sequence intubation in an emergency department: A randomised clinical trial [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND Airway management in the emergency room can be challenging when patients suffer from life-threatening conditions. Mental stress, ignorance of the patient's medical history, potential cervical injury or immobilisation and the presence of vomit
Brueesch, Martin, Goliasch, Georg, Ruetzler, Kurt, Schlaepfer, Martin, Seifert, Burkhardt, Spahn, Donat R, Sulser, Simon, Ubmann, Dirk   +7 more
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Prediction of Difficult Airway Among Patients Requiring Endotracheal Intubation in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Nepal

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2017
Introduction: Unanticipated difficult intubation is an undesirable situation. Various bedside screening tests are routinely performed for predicting difficult airway.
Sindhu Khatiwada, Balkrishna Bhattarai, Krishna Pokharel, Roshan Acharya   +3 more
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A comparative study of different induction techniques (Propofol-Placebo, Propofol-Ephedrine and Propofol- Placebo-Crystalloid) on intubating conditions after rocuronium administration [PDF]

, 2007
This was a prospective randomized double blind controlled study to compare intubating conditions at 60 seconds with rocuronium 0.6 mg/kg by using three different induction techniques: propofol-placebo (PP), propofol-ephedrine (PE) and propofol ...
Karis Misiran,, Muhd Helmi Azmi,
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Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Decompensated Heart Failure. [PDF]

, 2016
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving intervention for respiratory failure, including decompensated congestive heart failure. MV can reduce ventricular preload and afterload, decrease extra-vascular lung water, and decrease the work of breathing ...
Adams, Jason Y, Bradley, Laura A, Dempsey, Timothy M, Kuhn, Brooks T, Puro, Alana C   +4 more
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Comparación entre la gravedad del paciente y la carga de trabajo de la enfermería antes y después de la ocurrencia de eventos adversos en ancianos con cuidados críticos [PDF]

, 2018
Indexación: Scopus.Objective: to compare the patient severity and the nursing workload before and after the occurrence of moderate and severe adverse events in elderly hospitalized at intensive care units.
Andolhe, R., Barbosa, R.L., de Oliveira, E.M., Padilha, K.G., Toffoletto, M.C.   +4 more
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