INTRODUCTION A review of the literature was conducted to analyze the impact of simulation-based training for direct and video laryngoscopy (VL) skills for health care professionals and health care students. METHODS This review focused on the published literature that used randomized controlled trials to examine the effectiveness of simulation-based training to develop airway management skills...

Mark-recapture models are extensively used in quantitative population ecology, providing estimates of population vital rates, such as survival, that are difficult to obtain using other methods. Vital rates are commonly modeled as functions of explanatory covariates, adding considerable flexibility to mark-recapture models, but also increasing the subjectivity and complexity of the modeling proc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Predictive value of preoperative tests in estimating difficult intubation may differ in the laryngeal pathologies. Patients who had undergone direct laryngoscopy (DL) were reviewed, and predictive value of preoperative tests in estimating difficult intubation was investigated. METHODS Preoperative, and intraoperative anesthesia record forms, and computerized system o...

The TruView EVO2 laryngoscope was compared with the traditional Macintosh laryngoscope in 200 patients who required tracheal intubation for elective surgery. Mallampati score determined prior to laryngoscopy was significantly related to the view of the glottis during laryngoscopy for both laryngoscopes. The view of the larynx was better with the TruView EVO2 laryngoscope than with the Macintosh...

BACKGROUND The difficulties with airway management is the main reason for pediatric anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE To assess the value of modified Mallampati test, Upper-Lip-Bite test, thyromental distance and the ratio of height to thyromental distance to predict difficult intubation in pediatric patients. DESIGN Prospective analysis. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Data ...

The fusion of law and equity might be variously characterised as fact, fallacy,1 or furphy.2 Whilst some Commonwealth countries have embraced the unification of the two jurisdictions,3 Australian jurisprudence has been more hostile to the concept. There can be no doubt that the influential thinking of Meagher, Gummow and Lehane, expressed in the various editions of Equity: Doctrine and Remedies...

PURPOSE We designed this retrospective study to assess the frequency of difficult airway and difficult intubation in patients with spasmodic torticollis and compare it to that of the general population. METHODS After Institutional Review Board approval, data were collected from the charts of all the patients with spasmodic torticollis who underwent selective peripheral denervation at our inst...

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conclusions the tmd, with a cut-off point of 65 mm, had superior diagnostic value compared with the hmdr and mallampati score. therefore, the tmd could be used in malay patients to predict the difficulty of larynx visualization during laryngoscopy. results difficulty in visualizing the larynx was found in 28 (10.1%) patients. the auc, sensitivity, and specificity for the three airway predictors...