Intubating Stillborns

The intubating laryngeal mask airway.

T he laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is accepted as both a rescue ventilation and a primary airway management device in both the prehospital and emergency department environments. A modified version of the LMA, the intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA, LMA-Fastrach; Intavent Ltd, Reading, UK) exists, which, when combined with a modified tracheal tube, can be used for blind tracheal intubation. Th...

Intubating Conditions and Injection Pain

We studied 60 patients, ASA 1, aged 18-60 years, undergoing elective surgical procedures. The patients were randomly assigned to 3 groups who received intravenously either 0.15 mg/kg cisatracurium [2ED95], 0,6 mg rocuronium [2ED95] or a combination of 0.075 mg/kg cisatracurium [1ED95], plus 0.3 mg rocuronium [1ED95]. In the awake patients, the pain on injection of muscle relaxant was assessed o...

Intubating trauma patients before reaching hospital – revisited

Endotracheal intubation is widely used for airway management in a prehospital setting, despite a lack of controlled trials demonstrating a positive effect on survival or neurological outcome in adult patients. The benefits, in term of outcomes of invasive airway management before reaching hospital, remain controversial. However, inadequate airway management in this patient population is the pri...

Quest for an ideal intubating device.

Bonfils intubating fibrescope in normal paediatric airways.

a wide variation in the observed (A–a)DO2. However, these factors were not significantly different between the two groups and our primary outcome measure was the change in (A–a)DO2 between 1 h before extubation and 1 h after, so each patient acted as their own control such that only events occurring between the two measurements of (A–a)DO2 will have affected our results. All patients received a...