The original Jolly-Seber (JS) model (Jolly, 1965; Seber, 1965) was primarily interested in estimating abundance. Since then, the focus of many mark-recapture experiments changed to estimating survival rates (but not abundance) using the Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS)models (Cormack, 1964; Jolly, 1965; Seber, 1965)particularlywith the publication of Lebreton et al. (1992). In previous chapters concer...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway FastrachTM (ILMA) has been used with success in difficult intubation cases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of mouth opening, Mallampati classification, thyromental distance and Cormack-Lehane Grade, on the ease of ILMA use. METHODS Eighty one patients ASA I-II, were assessed preoperatively for mouth opening, Ma...

The purpose of this study was to compare the preoperative anesthetic airway evaluation methods of the modified Mallamapti test (MMT) and upper lip bite test (ULBT) with the direct laryngoscopic views obtained during tracheal intubation. Positive relationships were predicted for the MMT and ULBT with direct laryngoscopic view and between the MMT and ULBT. We assessed 50 patients' airways preoper...

In the course of developing tools for the 2015 Total Recall Track, co-coordinators Cormack and Grossman created an autonomous continuous active learning (“CAL”) system, which was provided to participants as the baseline model implementation (“BMI”) [http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/⇠gvcormac/trecvm/]. BMI essentially employs the approach described by Cormack and Grossman [http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06868...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Prediction of intubation difficulty can save patients from major preoperative morbidity or mortality. The purpose of this paper is to assess the correlation between oro-hypo pharynx position, neck size, and length with endotracheal intubation difficulty. The study also explored the diagnostic value of Friedman Staging System in prediction cases with difficult intubation...

UNLABELLED We studied the effectiveness of the intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA) in morbidly obese patients scheduled for bariatric surgery. We included 118 consecutive morbidly obese patients (body mass index, 45 +/- 5 kg/m(2)). After the induction of general anesthesia, the laryngeal view was classified by the first observer according to the method of Cormack and Lehane. The ILMA was th...

This study compared intubation conditions produced by the Macintosh and Airtraq™ laryngoscopes when used in obese patients in the ramped position. One hundred and thirty-two patients having bariatric surgery were placed in the ramped position and randomly assigned to have their tracheas intubated using either the Macintosh (n=64) or an Airtraq (n=68) laryngoscope. Mean (SD) intubation times wer...