BACKGROUND Ambiguity remains about the effectiveness of wearing surgical face masks. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact on surgical site infections (SSIs) when non-scrubbed operating room staff did not wear surgical face masks. METHODS Eight hundred twenty-seven participants undergoing elective or emergency obstetric, gynecological, general, orthopaedic, breast or urological s...

Rhinophyma is painless benign swelling due to hypertrophy of the sebaceous gland of the face and nose in particular. In a neglected case, it presented as ‘Proboscis-nose’. As it was hanging in front of nose it was compromising breathing ability of the patient during sleep. It was posing difficulty in placing normal size anstomical face-mask. We placed naso-pharyngeal airway under local anesthes...

OBJECTIVE The Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Guidelines 2010 for neonatal resuscitation introduced continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in delivery room. The present study evaluated the effect of CPAP for pulmonary air leak at term birth. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS This retrospective single-centre study used the data of term neonates who were born without major congenital anomalies...

BACKGROUND Difficult or impossible face mask ventilation complicated with difficult tracheal intubation during anesthesia induction occurs in 0.4% of adult anesthesia cases, possibly leading to life-threatening complications. Because of such catastrophes, muscle relaxants have been recommended to be administered after confirming adequate face mask ventilation without a solid scientific validati...

We have measured oxygen wash-in in 20 volunteers undergoing preoxygenation with a face mask, mouthpiece alone and a mouthpiece with a noseclip, in a crossover study. Tidal volume breathing and maximal deep breath techniques were studied with each type of equipment. When tidal volume breathing was used, the face mask and mouthpiece with noseclip were comparable, but the mouthpiece alone achieved...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were (1) to evaluate the way in which nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy influences the relative humidity (rH) of inspired air; and (2) to assess the impact on rH of the addition of an integrated heated humidifier or a full face mask to the CPAP circuitry. DESIGN The studies were performed in 25 patients with obstructive slee...

Mask-face detection has been a significant task since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. While various reviews on mask-face techniques up to 2021 are available, little reviewed distinction between two-class (i.e., wearing mask and without mask) three-class masking, which includes an additional incorrect-mask-wearing class. Moreover, no formal review conducted implementing models h...

OBJECTIVE To compare the comfort of oxygen therapy via high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) versus via conventional face mask in patients with acute respiratory failure. Acute respiratory failure was defined as blood oxygen saturation < 96% while receiving a fraction of inspired oxygen > or = 0.50 via face mask. METHODS Oxygen was first humidified with a bubble humidifier and delivered via face mas...

Objective: To present skeletal class III patient treated with protraction face mask and bonded rapid maxillary expander in order to demonstrate the effects of face mask and bonded rapid maxillary expander on maxillary hypoplasia skeletal class III patient. Materials and methods: The patient was reported with skeletal class III malocclusion. The patient was 11 year 3 month old boy and his treatm...

Thirty postoperative patients were allocated randomly to receive oxygen by Hudson face mask at 4 litre min-1 (group I) or 2 litre min-1 (group II) via nasal cannulae. From 22:00 on the first night after operation, the position of the nasal cannula or face mask was observed for 8 h using video and oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SpO2) recorded simultaneously. In group I the mask remained on and posit...