Laryngoscope breakage

The Laryngoscope

Classics from the laryngoscope.

This classic article meticulously detailed the spiral ganglion cell (SGC) populations in 100 patients with variable degrees of hearing loss and known diagnoses to assess the correlation with speech discrimination scores and to hypothesize upon the inherent ability to stimulate the remaining spiral ganglia successfully with cochlear implants. Important observations from this study were that spir...

Contamination of laryngoscope handles.

Despite use of sterile or disposable laryngoscope blades for each patient, disinfection of laryngoscope handles does not routinely occur, and these devices present a potential route of transmission of pathogens between patients and staff. A total of 192 specimens from 64 laryngoscope handles deemed 'ready for patient use' in the anaesthetic rooms of 32 operating theatres were semiquantitatively...

Bone breakage

In This Issue In This Issue Saying NO to muscular dystrophy ccording to the prevailing model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) pathogenesis, a lack of dystrophin protein makes muscle cells susceptible to mechanical damage, leading to muscle breakdown. On page 123, Wehling et al. suggest that the major damage in DMD may actually be caused by a secondary consequence of dystrophin loss: destru...

The Laryngoscope in Medicine

My object in writing the following short paper is, not to attempt to say anything new or original, but rather to repeat what has been often and well said, and once more to show how great is the help given, by an accurate use of the laryngoscope, in the diagnosis and treatment of otherwise obscure and untreatable cases. The first man who appears to have conceived it possible to illuminate the va...