Mallampati 'Zero' Airway: Extremely Easy or Not?

Mallampati 'Zero' Airway: Extremely Easy or Not?

Nasogastric tube check, easy or not?

To cite: Koo S. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015214075 DESCRIPTION Our patient required nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding for poor nutritional intake. He was alert when NGT insertion occurred. This required two attempts due to coughing. On the second attempt, coughing was present throughout but settled gradually. NGT insertion may be tricky in the...

Easy or Not Easy: Young Children’s False Belief Understanding in Communicative Situations

The present study investigated whether young children are better at representing others’ false beliefs in communicative situations than in standard false belief tasks. Younger (3.7–4.6 year-olds, n = 18), middle-aged (4.7–5.6 year-olds, n = 20), and older children (5.7–6.6 year-olds, n = 20) completed both standard false belief and communicative tasks having the same story structure. Although t...

Simple is not easy

I review and challenge the views on simplicity and its role in linguistics put forward by Ludlow (2011). In particular, I criticize the claim that simplicity—in the sense pertinent to science—is nothing more than ease of use or “user-friendliness”, motivated by economy of (cognitive) labor. I argue that Ludlow’s discussion fails to do justice to the diversity of factors that are relevant to sim...

ارزیابی راه هوایی: معرفی کلاس صفر مالمپاتی

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