Although there are intrinsic limitations in the analysis of closed malpractice claims, the Closed Claims Project has identified important anesthetic complications and mechanisms of injury and stimulated research in problem areas. The decrease in severity of injury in anesthesia malpractice claims suggests that anesthesia safety has improved since the establishment of monitoring standards using ...

Tracheal ultrasound can be an alternative diagnostic tool in airway management, besides traditional confirmatory methods such as capnography and auscultation. The standard image is a hyperechoic air-mucosa (A-M) interface with a reverberation artifact posteriorly (comet-tail artifact). If the second A-M interface appears, which we call a "double-tract sign," esophageal intubation is considered.

Objective: to evaluate the usefulness of capnography for the detection of metabolic changes in spontaneous breathing patients, in the emergency and intensive care settings. Methods: in-depth and structured bibliographical search in the databases EBSCOhost, Virtual Health Library, PubMed, Cochrane Library, among others, identifying studies that assessed the relationship between capnography val...

Background. Transcutaneous measurement of carbon dioxide (TcCO2) provides a non-invasive estimation of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2). Nasal capnography (PE 0 CO2 ) is used to assess ventilation during monitored anaesthesia care (MAC) with sedation since it can readily detect apnoea. We compared the agreement between TcCO2 and PE 0 CO2 with PaCO2 and the ability to detect hypercarbia in patien...

Abstract Background Assurance of proper endotracheal tube (ETT) location is crucial immediately after intubation as undiagnosed esophageal can be catastrophic. The primary purpose for this study to determine the diagnostic accuracy evaluate an inclusive three-window ultrasonography assessment rapid authentication position in intensive care unit (RICU) with reference Co 2 monitors (capnography) ...