Objective: To compare hemodynamic changes (systolic blood pressure and pulse) after intubation with Macintosh McCoy laryngoscopes.
 Study Design: Randomised control trial (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT05133375)
 Place Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital, Jhelum Pakistan, from Apr to Oct 2021.
 Methodology: A group 272 patients reporting the operation theatre were selected div...

We studied 22 female patients (ASA I or II) to investigate if laryngoscopy and intubation induced the skin vasomotor reflex (SVmR), and to compare the effects of the McCoy and Macintosh blades on the SVmR. Anaesthesia was induced with fentanyl, midazolam, vecuronium and nitrous oxide. In 11 patients, the vocal cords were seen for 3 s with the McCoy blade. Two minutes later, laryngoscopy was per...

We congratulate the three authors for their thought-provoking and original work. We thank Guy Nason for the invitation to discuss the papers presented in this stimulating session. Lee and McCoy propose new wavelet shrinkage function estimators. We discuss various wavelet shrinkage estimators, including those of Lee and McCoy, in the context of penalty functions. The paper by von Sachs concerns ...

BACKGROUND Cervical spine immobilization results in a poor laryngeal view on direct laryngoscopy leading to difficulty in intubation. This randomized prospective study was designed to compare the laryngeal view and ease of intubation with the Macintosh, McCoy, and TruView laryngoscopes in patients with immobilized cervical spine. MATERIALS AND METHODS 60 adult patients of ASA grade I-II with ...

OBJECTIVES No population-based studies have been conducted to show the potential for the use of virological diagnosis of the rabies virus. The objective of the present study was to estimate accuracy parameters for the isolation of the rabies virus in McCoy cells as an alternative method and to compare this with the use of murine neuroblastoma (N2A) cells, which is considered to be a reference m...

Resveratrol (RESV), an antifungal compound from grapes and other plants, has a distinct ability to inhibit the Chlamydia (C.) trachomatis developmental cycle in McCoy cells, a classic cell line used for chlamydial research. Inoculation of C. trachomatis with increasing amounts of RESV (from 12.5 to 100 μM) gave a dose-dependent reduction in the number of infected McCoy cells visualized by using...

You don’t often encounter an 80-year-old psychiatrist who uses modular graphics synthesizers and mathematical algorithms to generate vibrant fractal fusions in his spare time. In the strange and creative case of Claude McCoy, he has practiced psychiatry for 50 years but now works only one day a week. After initially downsizing his practice eight years ago, he began experimenting with Bryce on a...

Two cell lines (McCoy and MDCK) were studied in an attempt to understand the metabolic changes associated with adaptation to glutamine-free medium (GMEM + gmate). McCoy cells assumed normal growth rates after 2-3 passages in this medium whereas MDCK cells showed no growth in GMEM + gmate. The glutamine synthetase (GS) activity of both cell lines was elevated (up to x 9) as glutamine was deplete...