BACKGROUND The surgical excision of anatomic obstructions such as adenoids, palatine or lingual tonsils are commonly performed in children with sleep disordered breathing (SDB). Imaging studies measuring airway changes post-surgery in the SDB pediatric population are scarce, rarely addresses the nasal cavity, and are based on global measures (e.g. volume) that do not represent the complexity of...

Correction to: Local block and Awake Intubation in a Patient with Laryngeal Mass and Anticipated Difficult Airway: A Case Report       Hooshang Akbari1, Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili2   1 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Paramedical, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing...

background: establishment of a patent airway and preserving spontaneous ventilation is a necessity in predicted difficult airway. airway regional blocks are commonly used in predicted difficult airway but the known limitations of these techniques propose the need to suggest alternative methods. this study compares subcutaneous dissociative conscious sedation (sdcs); a recently reported method o...

BACKGROUND Childhood asthma is generally believed to be a disorder with a good prognosis. However, some asthmatics develop irreversible airway obstruction, probably as a result of airway remodelling. METHODS After 21-33 years, 228 adults (aged 13-44 years at baseline) with a history of asthma were re-examined to assess risk factors for the development of irreversible airway obstruction (IAO, ...

The impact of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on the airway responsiveness of asthmatic subjects with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) has scarcely been studied. A prospective study was performed comparing the changes in airway responsiveness and quality of life in stable asthmatic OSA patients, before and 6 weeks after their nocturnal CPAP treatment. A total of 20 subjects (...

[This corrects the article on p. 881 in vol. 11, PMID: 27217741.].

OBJECTIVE To introduce new 3-D imaging techniques to characterize shape and volume changes of the oropharyngeal space after bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Longitudinal cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans were obtained for 20 patients undergoing BSSO advancement at three time points (T1 = presurgery, T2 = splint removal, and T3 = 1 year afte...

INTRODUCTION This small observational study was motivated by our belief that scaling the tidal volume in mechanically ventilated patients to the size of the injured lung is safer and more 'physiologic' than scaling it to predicted body weight, i.e. its size before it was injured. We defined Total Lung Capacity (TLC) as the thoracic gas volume at an airway pressure of 40 cm H2O and tested if TLC...

Lung function testing in children is an important part of assessment, diagnosis and monitoring of children with lung disease. Regular testing can also be used to evaluate lung growth, review the effects of treatment and assess the risks and benefits of specific clinical interventions. Such tests can also be useful in the pre-operative assessment of high risk patients undergoing surgical procedu...

background: indian tea industry workers are exposed to various exposures at their workplace. objective: to investigate the respiratory health of indian tea industry workers. methods: we administered a respiratory questionnaire to and measured lung function in workers of 34 tea gardens and 46 tea factories. we used correlation matrices to test the association between their respiratory symptoms a...