Treacher Collin’s syndrome (TCS) is a rare inherited condition characterized by bilateral and symmetric abnormalities of structures within the first and second bronchial arches. Patients with TCS present a serious problem to anesthetists maintaining their airway as upper airway obstruction and difficult tracheal intubation due to severe facial deformity. Because of retrognathia, airway manageme...

Aim: Prone position plays a key role in the treatment of both non-intubated and intubated patients because COVID-19 associated respiratory failure is gas exchange abnormalities based on shunt dead-space ventilation. In this study, we aimed to compare effect prone applied awake with percentage injured lung area. 
 Material Method: 65 awake, were included prospective, single-center study. Pe...

James' adaptation of the Glasgow coma scale (JGCS) was designed for young children. Intubated patients are not allocated a verbal score, however, so important changes in a patient's conscious level may be missed. A grimace score was therefore developed and assessed for use in intubated children. Two observers made a JGCS observation within 15 minutes of each other. One observer was the patient'...

BACKGROUND Pathogens are often not identified in severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and the few studies using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques for virus detection are from temperate countries. OBJECTIVE This study assesses if PCR amplification improves virus and bacteria detection, and if viral infection contributes to mortality in severe CAP in a tropical setting, where res...

OBJECTIVE Airway care is the cornerstone of resuscitation. In UK emergency department practice, this care is provided by anaesthetists and emergency physicians. The aim of this study was to determine current practice for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in a sample of emergency departments in Scotland. METHODS Two year, multicentre, prospective observational study of endotracheal intubation in...

BACKGROUND Many trauma patients are intubated for conditions that fully resolve during their emergency department (ED) stay. Often, these patients remain intubated until after they leave the ED. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the prognosis of patients extubated in the ED. METHODS Data from the records of adult trauma patients who were intubated and then extubated in th...