The laryngeal tube suction II (LTS-II; VBM, Medizintechnik GmbH, Sulz, Germany) is a recent version of the laryngeal tube (LT) family of supraglottic airway devices originally intended for emergency airway management including out of hospital use 1,2 and unexpected difficult airway situations 3,4, but which are currently also used during general anaesthesia 5-11. The original LT consists of an ...

Mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO) is currently an accepted method of treatment for patients requiring reconstruction of hypoplastic mandibles. To date one of the unsolved problems is how to assess the quantitative increase of mandible length needed to achieve a significant change in the volume of the posterior airway space (PAS) in children with mandibular micrognathia following distrac...

mucormycosis is a serious fungal infection caused by the filamentous fungi of the mucorales order of the class of zygomycetes. mucormycosis is classically defined as an opportunistic fatal infection. in this report we explain a 49 years old woman with palato-orbital tract as a sequel of rhino cerebral mucormycosis and end stage renal disease candidate for kidney transplantation. difficulties in...

BACKGROUND The major drawback of Cormack Lehane classification for airway assessment is its dependence on invasive direct laryngoscopy and hence it is inapplicable for pre-anesthetic assessment of airway in patients with no prior history of tracheal intubation. STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to compare and correlate the ultrasound view of the airway and the Cormack Lehane class...

introduction: the prevalence of allergic airway diseases has dramatically increased in recent years all over the world. murine models of allergic airway inflammation have provided helpful information about treatment and cellular and molecular mechanisms of the disease. previous published works using murine models to investigate latex allergy did not introduce a complete characteristic eosinophi...

Objectives: The goal of this research was to compare lateral cephalometric radiography and cavum radiography in nasopharyngeal airway space evaluation. Methods: The sample of this study consisted of 36 Brazilian mouth breathing children, no racial distinction, with ages ranging from 5 to 12. These children were selected in Recife/PE, Brazil (2005) and divided into 6 groups. In each group, the r...

quercetin is a dietary flavonoid which has anti-inflammatory effects. this study aimed to evaluate the influence of quercetin on histopathological aspects and airway epithelium in  allergic airway  inflammation mice model. twenty-eight balb/c mice were randomly divided into four groups: group i (control), group ii (untreated mice with allergic airway inflammation), group iii (allergic airway in...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Ultrasonography has emerged as a novel, portable, non-invasive tool encouraging airway assessment and procedural interventions. This study assesses the feasibility of ultrasound for block of internal branch of superior laryngeal nerve (ibSLN) block during upper airway anaesthesia to aid awake fibre-optic intubation. METHODS Forty American Society of Anesthesiologists' phys...