Purpose. Emergency physicians are at risk for infection during invasive procedures, and the respirators can reduce this risk. This study aimed to determine whether endotracheal intubation using direct laryngoscopes affected protection performances of respirators. Methods. A randomized crossover study of 24 emergency physicians was performed. We performed quantitative fit tests using respirators...

BACKGROUND Airway management and endotracheal intubation are essential skills for pediatric residents. Simulation-based technology is used for training residents but it remains unclear whether high fidelity simulation results in better retention of skills compared to low fidelity. The study assesses high fidelity simulation of endotracheal intubation and traditional low fidelity training in imp...

Editor,—We are grateful for the opportunity to respond. The first point made was that we cannot conclude that this induction technique was clinically safe. We would disagree with this and use the evidence that none of our subjects was adversely affected clinically by the temporary decrease in arterial pressure. The second point was the exact timing after intubation of our measurement of arteria...

Recently, a technique for facilitating rapid tracheal intubation — with the aid of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs — has been described by Schwarz and colleagues (1985) using vecuronium. This method (priming) consists of the administration of a small dose of non-depolarizing blocker before induction, allowing sufficient time for the drug to reach the receptors and then the administ...

A photographic version of the Mallampati test was developed and applied to 242 pregnant patients at 12 weeks' gestation and again at 38 weeks' gestation. At 38 weeks the number of grade 4 cases had increased by 34% (P < 0.001). This is in agreement with other evidence which suggests that difficult laryngoscopy is slightly more frequent in obstetrics (1.7%) than in general surgery (1.3%). The in...

This paper addresses the problem of classification of upper airways images for endotracheal intubation verification in order to improve the safety of patients undergoing general anaesthesia. The proposed method is based on textural features utilized in a continuous probabilistic framework using parallel Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). The classification decision is made based on a maximum likel...

Intravenous lignocaine (1.5 mg kg-1) was evaluated in patients undergoing intraocular surgery as a means of preventing the rise in intraocular pressure which accompanies tracheal intubation. In patients given either suxamethonium or pancuronium to facilitate tracheal intubation, lignocaine pretreatment conferred no benefit over placebo in preventing the intraocular hypertensive response.

Title: Semiprone position is superior to supine position for paediatric endotracheal intubation during massive regurgitation: a randomized crossover simulation trial Authors: Espen Fevang ([email protected]) Karin Haaland ([email protected]) Jo Røislien ([email protected]) Conrad Bjørshol ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 05 Jan 2018 Author...

The effect of premedication with intramuscular atropine and glycopyrrolate on the cardiovascular changes resulting from the performance of laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation has been evaluated in two groups of 25 patients undergoing surgery. Neither atropine nor glycopyrrolate attenuated the hypertensive and tachycardic response to laryngoscopy and intubation; both significantly enhanced it (...

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