BACKGROUND Pneumonia occurs commonly in intubated patients and is morbid and occasionally mortal. Pneumonia prevention strategies have been successful in the intensive care unit and are favorably regarded, cost effective, and efficacious. Trauma patients are often intubated emergently in the prehospital or emergency department (ED) setting. Nationwide, hospital crowding has resulted in prolonge...

conclusions it appears that bis monitoring can be used for pain assessment along with the cpot tool in intubated patients, and it is much more sensitive than monitoring of hemodynamic changes. bis monitoring can be used more efficiently in intubated patients under deep sedation in the icu. materials and methods seventy consecutive patients who underwent cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass g...

This work was designed to compare the applicability of awake blind nasal and that of fibreoptic nasotracheal intubation in thirty adult sedated patients (ASA I and II) in whom the trachea planned to be intubated nasally. They were scheduled for elective oral or maxillofacial surgery under general anaethesia. They were randomly assigned into two equal groups according to the method used for intu...

BACKGROUND Supraglottic devices could be used to reduce postoperative respiratory complications, but there are few studies focused on their use in more prolonged surgeries. OBJECTIVES In this study, we compared postoperative respiratory complications in patients with prolonged ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeries, whose airways were controlled with tracheal tube or laryngeal mask airway (LMA)...

In the United Kingdom, it is current practice for paramedics to perform tracheal intubation on trauma patients when the airway is compromised and basic airway manoeuvres have failed. Paramedics in Britain never use anaesthetic drugs or muscle relaxants to achieve intubation. Anecdotal experience shows that patients who can be intubated without the use of drugs have a poor prognosis. We investig...

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-microbial resistance in intubated patients in intensive care unit (ICU) of Bahonar hospital in Kerman province, Iran during the year 2008. Tracheal samples were obtained from 111 intubated patients in the ICU by broncoalveolar lavage method. Amikacin, Ceftazidim and Imipenem were used to evaluate antibiotic susceptibility. For ...

OBJECTIVES To audit indications for and practice (in terms of training/qualification) of definitive airway management compared with current UK practices. DESIGN Consecutive observational study. SETTING Tygerberg Academic Hospital Trauma Service, Western Cape. SUBJECTS All trauma patients either arriving intubated or requiring intubation at the Trauma unit during the period 1 - 31 August 2...