La lesión de la columna cervical ocurre en el 3-4% los pacientes traumatizados, cuales 25% tiene una médula espinal cervical. El manejo vía aérea presenta riesgos inherentes con cervical, tanto si inestabilidad se conoce previamente como no, puesto que incluso las maniobras más simples pueden desplazar lesionada. Las guías actuación recomiendan realización estabilización manual línea junto lari...

The effect of patient position on mask ventilation, laryngoscopic view, intubation difficulty, and the stance adopted by the anesthesiologist during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation was investigated in 546 anesthetized adults in this prospective, randomized study. Patients were randomly assigned to either the sniffing position group or the simple extension group. The distribution of Cormack...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this case was to describe the anesthetic approach to a patient with Kabuki syndrome. CASE REPORT A patient with Kabuki syndrome had revision surgery for scoliosis. On physical examination, shown were long palpebral fissures, large, prominent fissures with an eversion of the lateral third of the lower eyelids, large, prominent malformed ears with low implan...

A new code, named MAP, is written in FORTRAN language for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) calculation with the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallelization. There are several optional numerical schemes for computing the MHD part, namely, modified Mac Cormack Scheme (MMC), Lax-Fridrichs scheme (LF) and weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme. All of th...

Sir,—The paper by Dunnett (1977) and the subsequent letter from Cormack (1977) deal with the problem of avoiding awareness during endotracheal intubation. May I draw attention to a special situation in which the likelihood of such awareness appears to be increased. This happens when the intranasal cavity is prepared for surgery with cocaine solution or cocaine paste immediately before induction...

Many manuscripts comparing populations and/or analysing the structure of animal communities use indexes of captures as synonymous of abundance. However, the basic methods more suitable to this assumption - probabilistic estimates based on equal capture probability - have not been considered. In this study, the deviations caused by different types of capture indexes are compared with a common pr...

Fertility behaviour includes not only biological but also social reproduction, involving a complex network of institutions. As Fortes highlights: 'The process of social reproduction, in broad terms, includes all those institutional mechanisms and customary activities and norms which serve to maintain, replenish and transmit the social capital from generation to generation' (1958: 2). Biological...

This article focuses on the first Australian report on middle schooling, the Report of the Junior Secondary Review (hereafter JSR), (Eyers, Cormack & Barratt, 1992). This report has been a catalyst for the burgeoning interest in middle schooling in South Australia and is used as a key reference for studies in other Australian states. The final report on which this article is based was completed...

The aim of the present paper is to review the literature regarding video-laryngoscopes (Storz V-Mac and C-Mac, Glidescope, McGrath, Pentax-Airway Scope, Airtraq and Bullard) and discuss their clinical role in airway management. Video-laryngoscopes are new intubation devices, which provide an indirect view of the upper airway. In difficult airway management, they improve Cormack-Lehane grade and...