Establishing an Airway

The nasopharyngeal airway: dispelling myths and establishing the facts.

The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) is a simple airway adjunct used by various healthcare professionals. It has some advantages over the oropharyngeal airway (OPA) but despite this it appears to be used less frequently. This may be due to fears over intracranial placement in cases of possible basal skull fracture. This fear, promulgated by training, is based solely on two single case reports and re...

Vascular compression of the airway: establishing a functional diagnostic algorithm.

IMPORTANCE Pediatric imaging carries the risk of radiation exposure. Children frequently undergo computed tomography with angiography (CTA) for findings on bronchoscopy with limited knowledge regarding the necessity of such imaging. OBJECTIVE To report our experience with all pediatric patients at our institution over an 8-year period with airway symptoms warranting bronchoscopy followed by C...

Airway compromising an airway.

To cite: Hoey AW, Foden N, Oakley R. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016215761 DESCRIPTION There are several tracheostomy tube types that can be used by patients who present to the emergency department with temporary or long-term artificial airways. While specific knowledge of each type may not be required, it is important for the emergency physic...

An Airway which Facilitates intubation with a Fiberoptic Laryngoscope

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Establishing an Appropriate Learning Bias Through Development

Self-organization of connection patterns within brain areas of animals begins prenatally, and has been shown to depend on internally generated patterns of neural activity. Such activity is genetically controlled and has been proposed to give the neural system an appropriate bias so that it can learn reliably from complex environmental stimuli. This paper demonstrates this idea computationally. ...