The aim of this study was to determine the cephalometric changes in subjects with Class III malocclusions after rapid palatal expansion (RPE) and facemask treatment. The 30 subjects presented with developing Class III malocclusions. The treatment group comprised 15 patients (eight girls and seven boys, mean age 11 years 6 months) who had undergone RPE and facemask therapy. The control group con...

BACKGROUND The aim of this prospective study was to determine whether a level of positive airway pressure was generated in participants receiving nasal high flow (NHF) delivered by the Optiflow system (Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand) in a cardiothoracic and vascular intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS Nasopharyngeal airway pressure was measured in 15 postoperative card...

PURPOSE To develop and demonstrate a real-time MRI method for assessing upper airway collapsibility in sleep apnea. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were acquired on a clinical 3 Tesla scanner using a radial CAIPIRIHNA sequence with modified golden angle view ordering and reconstructed using parallel imaging and compressed sensing with temporal finite difference sparsity constraint. Segmented airwa...

The treatment of severe asthmatics aged 1-3 years with budesonide administered via Nebuhaler and Laerdal facemask was assessed in a six month, double blind, placebo controlled study. Patients were randomised to budesonide (n = 20) or placebo (n = 20) treatment. Daily symptom scores were recorded by parents and clinic visits occurred every six weeks. Cough scores improved significantly with bude...

Inspiratory resistive load (IRL) has been used as part of clinical tools to evaluate respiratory responses of a child like depth of inspiratory efforts and perception of the inspiratory load. These responses have shown to be important to monitor the prognosis of asthma and sleep apnea. Minimally invasive instrumentations are generally preferred for children if extended monitoring is required. A...

Aims: The present study was undertaken to evaluate whether a visual classification of anterior malar support using vector relationship is supported by cephalometric analysis and to assess the effects of face mask therapy on vector relationship and other cephalometric variables. Methods and Material: Pre-treatment profile photographs and lateral cephalograms of forty adult subjects (20 positive ...

PURPOSE To report successful awake insertion of the intubating laryngeal mask (Fastrach) and subsequent tracheal intubation through it, in a patient with predicted difficult tracheal intubation, due to limited mouth opening, and difficult ventilation through a facemask, due to a large mass at the corner of the mouth. CLINICAL FEATURES A 53-yr-old woman with a large post-gangrenous mass on the...

698 March 2015 A full-term, 69-dayold infant with an antenatal diagnosis of a frontonasal encephalocele presented for a bifrontal craniotomy and encephalocele resection. The encephalocele measured 4.5 cm by 4.5 cm and extended from the patient’s glabella to his nasal alae. It was soft and covered with intact skin. The remainder of his airway examination (including computed tomography) was unrem...