Pope JF, Birnkrant DJ. Noninvasive ventilation to facilitate extuWeaning from mechanical ventilation and endotrabation in a pediatric intensive care unit. J Intensive Care Med cheal extubation is generally accomplished un2000;15:99–103. eventfully in children. Extubation failure, defined Noninvasive ventilation has been used extensively to treat as the need for reintubation, was reported to occ...

Aim: To compare the efficacy of intravenous dexamethasone with placebo in preventing POST after endotracheal intubation general surgical patients. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Place and duration study: Department Anesthesiology Surgical Intensive Care Unit Pain Management, Civil Hospital, Dow University Health Sciences Karachi from 12th January 2015 to 11th July 2015. Methodology: Sixty...

BACKGROUND Securing the endotracheal tube is a common procedure in the neonatal intensive care unit. Adequate fixation of the tube is essential to ensure effective ventilation of the infant whilst minimising potential complications secondary to the intervention. Methods used to secure the endotracheal tube often vary between units and sometimes even between healthcare providers in the same nurs...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the short term benefit of high-flow nasal oxygen cannula (HFNC) with nonrebreathing mask in terms of change of dyspnea, physiologic variables, and patient comfort in subjects after endotracheal extubation. METHODS: A randomized cross-over study was conducted in a 10-bed respiratory care unit in a university hospital. Seventeen mechanically ventilated subjects were randomiz...

INTRODUCTION Endotracheal intubation is a method necessary for controlling and maintaining airway during general anesthesia. Cough and hoarseness are common complications after endotracheal intubation. Inflammation has an important role in postoperative cough and hoarseness outbreak. Also it has been stated that green tea has anti-inflammatory properties. Therefore, the current study has been c...

To avoid the complications associated with endotracheal intubation, noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) has been proposed in the management of ventilator weaning in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) of various etiologies. Several studies have been performed to assess the benefit of NPPV in various weaning strategies, including permitting early extubation in patients who...

OBJECTIVE To identify the associations between the duration of endotracheal intubation and developing post-extubational supraglottic and infraglottic aspiration (PEA) and subsequent aspiration pneumonia. METHODS This was a retrospective observational study from January 2009 to November 2014 of all adult patients who had non-neurologic critical illness, required endotracheal intubation and wer...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Malpositioning of an endotracheal tube within the airway can lead to serious complications, such as endobronchial intubation, which may cause collapse of the nonventilated lung and barotrauma of the ventilated lung or vocal cord paralysis and accidental extubation [1]. We retrospectively identified 204 (54 plain tubes and 54 reinforced tubes in m...