Methods Patients requiring pre-hospital intubation in a physician– led pre-hospital trauma service over 16 months were included. Intubation success rate, misplaced tracheal tube rate, Cormack and Lehane grade and the presence and nature of gross airway contamination were recorded at laryngoscopy. Tube placement was verified with carbon dioxide detection and chest x-ray. After visual assessment ...

Cormack (1992) proposed a framework for pronominal anaphora resolution. Her proposal integrates focusing theory (Sidner et al.) and DRT (Kamp and Reyle). We analyzed this methodology and adjusted it to the processing of Portuguese texts. The scope of the framework was widened to cover sentences containing restrictive relative clauses and subject ellipsis. Tests were conceived and applied to pro...

Background: Securing airway and adequate ventilation after induction of anesthesia is the utmost priority anesthesiologists, failure that can lead to hypoxic brain injury death in a few minutes. Aims Objectives: The aims this study were ascertain role ultrasonography predicting difficult intubation by comparing different ultrasonographic parameters. Materials Methods: One hundred patients poste...

Objective: To acknowledge the work and life of the Austrian mathematician Johann Radon, motivated by a historical narrative on the development of the computed tomography scanner. Methods: Information was obtained from journal articles, textbooks, the Nobel web site, and proceedings from mathematical symposiums. Results: The computed tomography scanner changed the paradigm of medical imaging. Th...

BACKGROUND Super-obese patients are at increased risk of difficult mask ventilation and difficult intubation. Therefore, devices that allow for simultaneous ventilation/oxygenation during attempts to visualize the entrance to the larynx, increase patient safety. TotalTrack video intubating laryngeal mask is a new device that allows for ventilation during intubation efforts. PATIENTS AND METHO...

Background: The present study was performed to 1. compare usefulness of the AirtraqTM (ATQ) and the Airway ScopeTM (AWS) with the Macintosh laryngoscope (MAC), 2. compare usefulness of the ATQ with the AWS, 3. compare usefulness of the AWS with the tip of the blade under the epiglottis as recommended by the manufacturer (AWS-Miller) and the AWS with the tip of the blade in the vallecula as the ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Safe airway management is the cornerstone of contemporary anaesthesia practice, and difficult intubation (DI) remains a major cause of anaesthetic morbidity and mortality. The surgical category, particularly cardiac surgery as a risk factor for DI has not been studied extensively. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis whether cardiac surgical patients are at incre...