BACKGROUND Noninvasive capnography is not routinely available on portable transport patient monitors but can be useful in respiratory monitoring of spontaneously breathing patients during transport, especially when sedation is administered. We describe an assembled setup of face mask capnography. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility and performance of an assembled face mask c...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this prospective study in the prehospital setting was to compare three different methods for immediate confirmation of tube placement into the trachea in patients with severe head injury: auscultation, capnometry, and capnography. METHODS All adult patients (>18 years) with severe head injury, maxillofacial injury with need of protection of airway, or polytrauma were int...

BACKGROUND Computed tomography (CT) phenotypic characterization helps in understanding the clinical diversity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, but its clinical relevance and its relationship with functional features are not clarified. Volumetric capnography (VC) uses the principle of gas washout and analyzes the pattern of CO2 elimination as a function of expired volume...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway FastrachTM (ILMA) has been used with success in difficult intubation cases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of mouth opening, Mallampati classification, thyromental distance and Cormack-Lehane Grade, on the ease of ILMA use. METHODS Eighty one patients ASA I-II, were assessed preoperatively for mouth opening, Ma...

Introduction. Manikin studies' data cannot accurately be extrapolated to real-life scenarios and inherent differences in design and materials of newer products may affect their clinical performance. Methods. Hence, we compared the AMBU® Aura-i™ and LMA Supreme™ in this randomized trial involving 100 ASA 1-2 unparalysed anaesthetised patients undergoing minor gynaecological surgery. Investigator...

Pending APPLICABILITY OF CAPNOGRAPHY IN DETECTING HYPOCAPNIA WITHIN PATIENTS HAVING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Angus Forbes. Flinders University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA. The hyperventilation syndrome has been described as prevalent amongst patients presenting with cardiac-related symptoms. This study was conducted to assess the utility of capnography to identify hypocapnia in patients with c...

A 48-year-old man was scheduled for a temporal lobe tumor resection. The use of intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was required, needing special equipment including the anesthetic machine (Aestiva 5 MRI, Datex-Ohmeda, GE Healthcare, Madison, USA). After a total intravenous anesthesia induction and orotraqueal intubation the patient was ventilated with volume control modality (tidal...

Background: Throat complaints were common after the use of an endotracheal tube (ETT). Sore throat was also a common complaint after the use of a laryngeal mask (LM). After the introduction of i-gel®, which is a preformed siliconized non-inflatable LM, it was hypothesized that sore throat would be less. Objective: To compare the throat complaints postoperatively after general anesthesia with th...

BACKGROUND The usual method for initial assessment of an acute asthma attack in the emergency room includes the use of peak flow measurement and clinical parameters. Both methods have their own disadvantages such as poor cooperation/effort from patients (peak flow meter) and lack of objective assessment (clinical parameters). We were looking into other methods for the initial asthma assessment,...