Airway assessment
Incidence of unanticipated difficult airway using an objective airway score versus a standard clinical airway assessment: the DIFFICAIR trial – trial protocol for a cluster randomized clinical trial
... Simplified Airway Risk Index (SARI) is a multivari- ate model for airway assessment described by El-Ganzouri et ...clinical airway assess- ment on the prediction of difficult intubation by ...
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Clinical Criteria for Airway Assessment: Correlations with Laryngoscopy and Endotracheal Intubation Conditions
... anesthesiology, airway assessment at the preanesthetic consultation has been found to constitute a moment of extreme importance, and investigators in this field are constantly searching for better ...
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Description and comparison of the performance of the upper lip bite test, the ratio of height to thyromental distance and other methods of preoperative airway assessment in a Nigerian population – a pilot study
... Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Two hundred and sixteen consecutive, consenting ASA I-III patients presenting for surgery and planned for general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation over a six month ...
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A Prospective Observational Study to Determine the Usefulness of Ultrasound Guided Airway Assessment Preoperatively in Predicting Difficult Airway
... ultrasound airway assessment was done to measure the thickness of soft tissues in the anterior neck at 3 levels namely (a) hyoid bone, (b) thyrohyoid membrane and (c) suprasternal ...
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Novel role of focused airway ultrasound in early airway assessment of suspected laryngeal trauma
... Upper airway injury secondary to blunt neck trauma can lead to upper airway obstruction and poten- tially cause a life-threatening ...secure airway. Focused airway ultrasound enables ...
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A Study of Correlation of Preoperative Ultrasonographic Airway Assessment and Clinical Assessment in Prediction of the Difficult Airway
... structures (eg, the mandible and hyoid) were brightly hyperechoic with an underlying hypoechoic acoustic shadow. Cartilaginous structures (eg, the epiglottis, thyroid cartilage, cricoid cartilage, and tracheal rings) ...
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Are physician assistant and patient airway assessments reliable compared to anesthesiologist assessments in detecting difficult airways in general surgical patients?
... way assessment; however, it does not specify the required elements of the assessment ...an airway assessment similar to that performed by an anesthesiologist ...the airway as- sessment ...
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Use of Laryngeal Mask Airway in the Management of a Difficult Airway: A Case Report
... This patient was a clear case of anticipated difficult air- way going by the past history of failed intubation and airway assessment findings of short neck and receding chin in an obese patient. McCoy ...
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Correlation between modified LEMON score and intubation difficulty in adult trauma patients undergoing emergency surgery
... tient’s airway assessment was performed according to the LEON method ...cause airway ob- struction; and (4) neck mobility—assess for the pres- ence of limited neck mobility or use of a hard neck ...
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Detailed statistical analysis plan for the difficult airway management (DIFFICAIR) trial
... by El-Ganzouri and colleagues enabling an estimation of the likelihood of a difficult direct laryngoscopy. The SARI contains seven individual predictors for a difficult direct laryngoscopy, each given a weighted score of ...
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COMPARISON OF THE SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF DIFFERENT TESTS TO DETERMINE DIFFICULT INTUBATION
... four airway examination tests including: Mallampati, Thyro-mental distance, ULBT(Upper Lip Bite Test), and Inter incisicor gap for predicting difficult tracheal ...Preoperative airway assessment of ...
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Role of upper airway ultrasound in airway management
... Upper airway ultrasound is a valuable, non-invasive, simple, and portable point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for evaluation of airway management even in anatomy distorted by pathology or ...upper ...
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Trials directly comparing alternative spontaneous breathing trial techniques: a systematic review and meta analysis
... Meta-analyses of PS vs T-piece SBTs showed benefit in seven nonperioperative trials (n = 1273; RR 1.07, 95% CI 1.01–1.13; p = 0.02, I 2 = 94%) (high-quality evidence) compared with two perioperative trials (n = 548; RR ...
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Auto titrating continuous positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea after acute quadriplegia (COSAQ): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) [23] is a gen- eric quality of life instrument and has been found to be as good as or better than instruments commonly used in measuring outcomes in stroke, co-ordinated ...
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Implementing blended learning in emergency airway management training: a randomized controlled trial
... emergency airway management using PowerPoint slides with the same content as that which was used for video ...emergency airway management (available also on the online learning ...
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Airway inflammation in asthma : from concept to the clinic
... initial assessment before treatment. For the ongoing assessment of asthma control during treatment, PEF variability is not included in the guidelines ...using airway hyperresponsiveness (28), sputum ...
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Toxicological and analytical assessment of e cigarette refill components on airway epithelia
... The majority of the research has been divided as follows: i analytical assessment of the e-liquids; ii analytical assessment of the vapour phase; iii toxicity of the e-liquids and/or vap[r] ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5654813.pdf
... To address these issues, we have developed a suite of algorithms designed to segment both airway lumen and mucus in OCT images. The segmentation of the lumen in the presence of dense mucus is achieved using a ...
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Network User Guide
... Your AirWay system uses Digital Spread Spectrum Technology to help ensure robust, secure communications. The system provides five levels of security, the highest available for 900 MHz products. The first level of ...
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Non-invasive biomarkers and pulmonary function in smokers
... that airway acidifi cation is related to bacterial colonisation in bronchiectasis and to neutrophilic inflammation and oxidative stress in COPD (Kostikas et al ...and airway acidity, demonstrating a ...
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