Unpicking the Narrative: Difficult Women, Difficult Work

Management of the difficult Airway

The appropriate airway management is the important point during the anesthesia. For it dose, ‎taking history, physical examination (head and neck, mandible, mouth opening, neck ‎movements …) must be done completely and they are helpful in estimating difficult ‎intubation.‎ It is necessary to note that one case from every ‎‏5000‏‎ cases of anesthesia, not o...

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain

Solving Difficult HTM Problems Without Difficult Hardware

There are several classes of operations, including I/O and memory allocation, that are considered difficult to perform as part of a transaction. To allow such operations inside of transactions, previous hardware transactional memory systems have proposed additional mechanisms such as opennested transactions that use hardware management of software handlers. Open-nested transactions are not nece...

Difficult face-mask ventilation and difficult laryngoscopy.

To the Editor: Our thanks are due to Kheterpal et al. 1 for another valuable addition to our understanding of airway management during anesthesia. Their work suggests that provided we exclude the patients with obvious abnormalities, we will find that the incidence of the combination of difficult mask ventilation (DMV) and difficult laryngoscopy (DL) is infrequent but not rare (0.4%), and the ou...

Difficult colonoscopy score identifies the difficult patients undergoing unsedated colonoscopy

BACKGROUND Many factors have been found to affect the difficulty of colonoscope insertion, such as age, gender, body mass index (BMI), history of abdominal surgery and operator etc. However, a scoring system may be more useful to predict the difficulty during colonoscopy. METHODS The individual and procedure-related data of 616 patients undergoing colonoscopy were prospectively collected from...