Post-extubation stridor and upper-airway obstruction are multifactorial in etiology and can occur as a result of laryngotracheal edema, intubation trauma, excessive cuff pressure with mucosal ulceration, and prolonged intubation with secondary inflammation and granuloma formation.1 Cuff leak tests (CLTs) were introduced in an attempt to predict post-extubation upper-airway obstruction and reduc...

The term “hacker” has been spread around the world and always considered as a threat when we use internet. We often hear hackers deface websites’ contents break into system to steal private confidential information, such account’s username password, credit card numbers others. This is definitely an unethical behavior of irresponsible people who mostly aims gain profit. However hacker, on contra...

The calibrated-leak balloon catheter, used for the selective catheterization of intracranial arteries, originally incorporated a silicone microballoon at its tip [1]. Latex balloons have now proven superior in elasticity and tensile strength when compared with balloons made of silicone [2] . Consequently, most workers construct the calibrated-leak balloon catheter by gluing a leaking latex micr...

Aims. The aim of the study was to compare endotracheal intubation with i-gel and LMA (laryngeal mask airway) supreme supraglottic airway devices in orbital osteosynthesis surgery. Methods. 134 patients undergoing orbital plasty after fracture were enrolled in our study and were randomized into three groups: 43 in the endotracheal intubation group, 42 in the LMA-Supreme group, and 49 patients w...

Privacy information is prone to be leaked by illegal software providers with various motivations. Privacy leak behavior has thus become an important research issue of cyber security. However, existing approaches can only qualitatively analyze privacy leak behavior of software applications. No quantitative approach, to the best of our knowledge, has been developed in the open literature. To fill...

1 published an original article on the efficacy of the endoscopic management of bile leak after cholecystectomy. Endoscopic management , which involved biliary stent placement with or without biliary sphincterotomy, was successful in 30 of 32 cases (93.8%). Complications of endoscopic management occurred in four of 32 cases (1.3%), but were managed conservatively without se-quelae. 1 Results fr...