OBJECTIVE To compare the short-term efficacy of surfactant administration by laryngeal mask airway versus endotracheal tube. METHODS Preterm infants (28-35 weeks of gestational age), weighing 1kg or more, with respiratory distress syndrome, requiring nasal continuous positive airway pressure, with increased respiratory effort and/or fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2)≥0.40 to maintain oxygen s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Cress-seed (Lepidium sativum) exudate exerts an allelochemical effect, promoting excessive hypocotyl elongation and inhibiting root growth in neighbouring Amaranthus caudatus seedlings. We investigated acidic disaccharides present in cress-seed exudate, testing the proposal that the allelochemical is an oligosaccharin-lepidimoic acid (LMA; 4-deoxy-β-l-threo-hex-4-enopyranuro...

BACKGROUND To assess the correlation between lumbar disc degeneration (LDD), multifidus muscle atrophy (LMA), and facet joints degeneration in patients with L4-L5 lumbar disc herniation (LDH). METHODS Sixty patients with L4-L5 LDH diagnosed by a 1.5 T MRI scanner were enrolled in the study group and another 60 patients with non-specific back pain were enrolled in the control group. LDD, LMA, ...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of delivery of mechanical ventilation through different airway devices during fibreoptic intubation is not known. METHODS We compared the laryngeal mask airway (LMA), intubating laryngeal mask (ILM) and endoscopy mask for positive pressure ventilation (PPV) during fibreoptic intubation. In 80 adult paralysed patients, fibreoptic intubation was performed during PPV usin...

BACKGROUND The i-gel differs from other supraglottic airway devices, in that it has a softer, non-inflatable cuff. This study was designed to compare the performance of the i-gel and the LMA-Unique (LMA-U) when used during anaesthesia in paralysed patients. METHODS Both devices were studied in 39 anaesthetized, paralysed patients in a randomized crossover trial. The primary outcome was airway...

Many applications that utilize motion capture data require small, discrete, semantic segments of data, but most motion capture collection processes produce long sequences of data. The smaller segments are often created from the longer sequences manually. This segmentation process is very laborious and time consuming. This paper presents an automatic motion capture segmentation method based on m...

about the prevention of aspiration. Frankly, we were astonished to see that nobody in the Belfast City Hospital admitted to preferring the LMA in obese patients, as there is a substantial body of knowledge supporting its use in this situation. Perhaps more than anything, however, these new data illustrate the wide variation in clinical practice among institutes. In Cairns Private Hospital, for ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study was undertaken to highlight the method, usefulness and postoperative morbidity of using a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) to ventilate patients with difficult airways undergoing laryngeal procedures. PROCEDURES Retrospective chart review where we identified patients deemed to have a difficult airway who underwent laryngeal and upper tracheal procedures, and were el...

CORRESPONDENCE THE LARYNGEAL MASK FOR INTRAOCULAR SURGERY Sir,—Ripart, Cohendy and Eledjam [1], in commenting upon the article by Lamb, James and Janicki [2], described two untoward incidents associated with the use of the laryngcal mask airway (LMA) for controlled ventilation during intraocular surgery. As a result, they have abandoned the technique. They have done so without relating the inci...