Obstetric difficult airway guidelines - decision-making in critical situations

Obstetric difficult airway guidelines - decision-making in critical situations.

Decision-Making in Time-Critical Situations

There are a variety of tasks in which the amount of lime available to make decisions does not always allow a careful consideration of all oi the options. AIRPLAN is being developed to assist with one such task, managing the launch and recovery of aircraft on a carrier. This paper describes attempts to represent AIRPLAN's knowledge in a way that enables it to provide as much assistance as possib...

DIffIcUlt aIrway IN ObstEtrIc aNEsthEsIa

Received for publication: Dec 8, 2005. Revised: Apr. 11, 2006. rEZUMat Director, Obstetric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA

Pleasure in decision-making situations

BACKGROUND This study explores the role of pleasure in decision making. RESULTS In Experiment 1, 12 subjects were presented with a questionnaire containing 46 items taken from the literature. Twenty-three items described a situation where a decision should be made and ended with a suggested solution. The other items served as filler items. The subjects were requested not to make a decision bu...

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of the Difficult Airway in Obstetric Anesthesia

The purpose of this review is to discuss clinical practice guidelines for the management of the difficult airway in obstetric anesthesia. In the obstetric population, most anesthetic-related maternal deaths still result from complications of airway management following induction of general anesthesia for cesarean delivery (1-4). Airway management in pregnant patients is widely accepted as being...