Background: Prolonged endotracheal intubation is a growing method for supporting ventilation in patients who require intensive care. Despite considerable advancement in endotracheal intubation, this method still has some complications the most important is laryngo-tracheal injuries.                    Methods: Over a 2-year period, this retrospective study was conducted on 57 patients with hist...

Introduction: Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation necessitate to start a surgery and induction of general anesthesia as well as the maintenance of the air way and to provide ventilation. However, Laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation may lead to hemodynamic response that appear with the symptoms of hypertension tachycardia, arrhythmia and myocardial ischemia and results in myocardial infarction...

Background and purpose: Penetrating eye injury is one of the most frequent trauma admitted in ophtalmological emergency rooms. The major concern when treating such a trauma is increased intra-ocular pressure and vitreous loss as a side effect of Succinylcholine and endotracheal intubation with no appropriate substitute drug available yet. This study is aimed to determine whether the use of...

Introduction: General anesthesia is the most common technique for performance of various surgical procedures. Thiopental is the most common anesthetic agent for intravenous induction. Since the introduction of propofol as an anesthetic agent, its use has increased progressively and has become the drug of choice for induction of anesthesia in several conditions. The aims of this study were com...

Aim and background: Tracheal intubation remains the choice method for keeping airways open during mechanical ventilation. Among the various methods, standard method of direct laryngoscopy generally used by non-skilled staff increases the risk of failure. This study was performed to evaluate and compare the results of tracheal intubation using laryngeal masks vs. glidescope led by novice personn...