AIM To assess whether an airway assessment score based on the LEMON method is able to predict difficulty at intubation in the emergency department. METHODS Patients requiring endotracheal intubation in the resuscitation room of a UK teaching hospital between June 2002 and September 2003 were assessed on criteria based on the LEMON method. At laryngoscopy, the Cormack and Lehane grade was reco...

BACKGROUND An unexpected difficult intubation can be very challenging and if it is not managed properly, it may expose the encountered patient to significant risks. The intubation difficulty scale (IDS) has been used as a validated method to evaluate a global degree of intubation difficulty. The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of unexpected difficult intub...

To the Editor: We thank Dr. Wang, et al.[1] for the comments in our article. With regard to the first comment point, we agreed with them that Cormack‐Lehane grades 3–4 with Macintosh laryngoscope should be defined as difficult laryngoscopy. The definition of difficult airway in our paper should be difficult laryngoscopy, not difficult airway.[1] The laryngeal classification (Macintosh 3–4 blade...

The transformation of waves is one of the important subjects in coastal engineering studies. Refraction, diffraction, shoaling, reflection can be analysed with the mild slope equation over mild sloped topographies. But the extended mild slope equation can be applied to the rapidly varying topographies since it includes higher order bottom effects such as square of bottom slope and bottom curvat...

The TruView EVO2 laryngoscope was compared with the traditional Macintosh laryngoscope in 200 patients who required tracheal intubation for elective surgery. Mallampati score determined prior to laryngoscopy was significantly related to the view of the glottis during laryngoscopy for both laryngoscopes. The view of the larynx was better with the TruView EVO2 laryngoscope than with the Macintosh...

The Third International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering was held in Rochester, New York, June 4-6, 2005, at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Following a welcome by the conference chair, Dr. Subrata Saha, the participants were also formally welcomed by Dr. Alastair Cormack, dean of the School of Engineering, Alfred University, and by Dr. Charles Phelps, the provost of the Universit...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We determine the proportion of successful intubations with the C-MAC video laryngoscope (C-MAC) compared with the direct laryngoscope in emergency department (ED) intubations. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data entered into a continuous quality improvement database during a 28-month period in an academic ED. After each intubation, the ope...