For anatomic and technical reasons, it is often difficult to achieve guiding-catheter stability in the segmental arteries during embolization of spinal vascular lesions. We have developed a segmental artery exchange technique using a thin-walled 4F nontapered catheter that is safe and achieves a stable guiding-catheter position. This catheter accommodates both the flow-guided and variable-stiff...

Background and Objectives: Suction is a necessary and common method which aids in the release of secretion from the respiratory system for the patients who have undergone mechanical ventilation. One of the most common complications of suction is hypoxemia which causes dysrhythmia and death. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of open and closed-endotracheal suction on cardiov...

Background: Prevalence of nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) ranges between from 6-26%. Increased use broad-spectrum antibiotics, urinary and central venous catheterization endotracheal intubation put patients at an increased risk affecting with patients. Methods: A hospital based prospective study was carried out on 725 aged 1 month 12 years admitted PICU Al-Ameen me...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common and serious complication of mechanical ventilation via an artificial airway. As with all nosocomial infections, VAP increases costs, morbidity, and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU). VAP prevention is a multifaceted priority of the intensive care team, and can include the use of specialized artificial airways and heat-and-moisture excha...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation is a complex intervention. One strategy for improving the quality of a complex intervention is to limit the procedure to practitioners or agencies that meet minimum procedure experience standards. The system-level influence of such limits is unknown. We seek to determine how minimum endotracheal intubation experience standards influence th...

We examined 36 outpatients and one inpatient via the transbrachial approach (20 patients via the right brachial, 16 patients via the left). Patients' ages ranged from 18 to 86 years, with the majority in their seventh or eighth decade. Diagnoses among the outpatients included old cerebral infarction, transient ischemia attack, and seizure. The diagnosis for the inpatient was an intracranial ara...

background: the unplanned departure of endotracheal tube is one of the main complications for endotracheal intubation. in addition to endotracheal extubation, its movement can also lead to damage to the oral cavity. stabilizing endotracheal tube is the most important factor that can prevent unplanned departure of endotracheal tube as well as its movement. the current study was done with the aim...

conclusions the results of this study showed that remifentanil, similar to alfentanil, provided excellent conditions for endotracheal intubation when used with propofol for the induction of anesthesia; however, remifentanil improved the patency of the vocal cords to a greater extent than alfentanil. results there were no demographic data differences between groups (age, weight, and sex). furthe...

abstract background: formation of biofilm and bacterial colonization within the endotracheal tube (ett) are significant sources of airway contamination and play a role in the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap). this study was conducted to examine the effect of nebulized eucalyptus (ne) on bacterial colonization of ett biofilm. materials and methods: we performed a randomized c...

background: the normal prostate-specific antigen (psa) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. we designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum psa. materials and methods: seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...