airway morbidity Editor—We read the interesting article by Seo and colleagues about the study comparing two techniques of double-lumen endobronchial intubation. We have a few queries. First, the authors have not mentioned if any lubrication or softening technique was used to prepare the double-lumen tube (DLT) before placement to prevent airway morbidity. Secondly, the authors have not mentione...

Bronchial obstruction due to a tumor embolus of the contralateral lung during pneumonectomy is an uncommon and fatal complication. According to previous cases, a bronchial balloon of double-lumen endotracheal tube (DLT) could prevent a dislodged tumor from traveling to the contralateral lung. We experienced a tumor embolism from the bronchus with cancer to the other bronchus despite applying DL...

In this report, we demonstrate the CANCEIS (CANadian Census Edit and Imputation System) experiments of edit and imputation with the 2006 test data. The major effort is to translate the if-then-else rules of current edit and imputation system of the decennial census into the decision logic tables (DLT) of CANCEIS. We also formulate the input files that are needed to run the CANCEIS software. The...

Thomas G. Robertazzi State University of New York, Stony Brook T he increasing prevalence of multiprocessor systems and data-intensive computing has created a need for efficient scheduling of computing loads, especially parallel loads that are divisible among processors and links. During the past decade, divisible load theory has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling data-intensive computatio...

Uniquely identifying individuals across the various networks they interact with on a daily basis remains challenge for digital world that we live in, and therefore development of secure efficient privacy preserving identity mechanisms has become an important field research. In addition, popularity decentralised decision making such as Bitcoin seen huge interest in use distributed ledger technol...

Primary lymphedema can be managed effectively as a form of chronic lymphedema by a sequenced and targeted treatment and management program based around a combination of Decongestive Lymphatic therapy (DLT) with compression therapy, when the latter is desired as an adjunct to DLT. Treatment in the maintenance phase should include compression garments, self management, including self massage, met...

This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and performance of Arndt-endobronchial blocker (Arndt) combined with laryngeal mask airway (LMA) compared with left-sided double-lumen endobronchial tube (L-DLT) in morbidly obese patients in one-lung ventilation (OLV). In a prospective, randomized double-blind controlled clinical trial, 80 morbidly obese patients (ASA I-III, aged 20-70) undergoing g...

Introduction: Insertion of endotracheal tubes, especially large and relatively inflexible double-lumen tubes, provokes cardiovascular and humoral responses which can cause complications. Bronchial blockers, combined with conventional single-lumen tubes (SLT), serve as alternatives to double-lumen tubes (DLT) and may provoke less hemodynamic response. Methods: Forty adults scheduled for elective...

Purpose: Elderly oncology patients are not enrolled in early-phase trials in proportion to the numbers of geriatric patients with cancer. There may be concern that elderly patients will not tolerate investigational agents as well as younger patients, resulting in a disproportionate number of dose-limiting toxicities (DLT). Recent single-institution studies provide conflicting data on the relati...

OBJECTIVE Airway complications (AC) remain a significant contributing factor of morbidity after lung transplantation (LT). The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for AC, and to review the outcomes after endoscopic and surgical treatment. METHODS From 1993 to 2006, 255 patients underwent LT. Seven retransplants and 34 patients not surviving beyond 7 days were excluded. The remainin...