Integration of Pre-intubation Ultrasound into Airway Management Course: A Novel Training Program

Training course in local anaesthesia of the airway and fibreoptic intubation using course delegates as subjects.

BACKGROUND We describe a practical method of training anaesthetists in the technique of awake fibreoptic intubation. This is performed on a training course using the delegates as subjects. METHODS The first 15 subjects underwent cardiovascular monitoring during airway fibreoptic endoscopy performed by other course members. They were subsequently interrogated by use of a questionnaire. RESUL...

Ultrasound-guided tracheal intubation: a novel intubation technique.

medical practice. Ultrasonography can confirm endotracheal intubation, assess vocal cord function, detect endobronchial intubation and diagnose pneumothorax. We present a novel use of real time ultrasound to guide tracheal intubation in a series of 25 children. This new technique is called Ultrasound Guided Tracheal Intubation (UGTI). It is kinesthetically similar to the lighted stylet techniqu...

The effect of pre-hospital trauma management training program on time indices of emergency medical services

Background and Aim: Time is the main determinant factor for survival chance in trauma patients. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the effect of management programs in trauma patients on time indices of pre-hospital emergency missions. Materials and Methods: In this controlled field trail, 60 pre-hospital emergency technicians were divided into two test and control groups, by mean...

An Airway which Facilitates intubation with a Fiberoptic Laryngoscope

Integration of suicide prevention program into primary health care network: a field clinical trial in Iran

  Background: Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC netwo...