Percutaneous dilatation tracheostomy (PDT) is one of the most frequent interventions in ventilator dependant ICU patients. Ciaglia and Griggs are two common PDT techniques. Few studies are available comparing these two methods, but there is no data available to compare these two techniques in Iranian population. The aim of this study was to compare Ciaglia and Griggs technique in our population...

percutaneous dilatation tracheostomy (pdt) is one of the most frequent interventions in ventilator dependant icu patients. ciaglia and griggs are two common pdt techniques. few studies are available comparing these two methods, but there is no data available to compare these two techniques in iranian population. the aim of this study was to compare ciaglia and griggs technique in our population...

BACKGROUND Tracheostomy is considered the airway management of choice for patients who need prolonged mechanical ventilation support. Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheotomy (PDT) is a technique that can be performed easily and rapidly at bedside and is particularly useful in the intensive care setting. The Griggs percutaneous tracheotomy is unique in its utilization of a guide wire dilator force...

OBJECTIVE Analysis of laryngotracheoscopic findings of the upper airway tract following percutaneous tracheostomy using the technique according to Griggs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study PATIENTS Nineteen of 32 long-term surviving patients (mean follow-up duration, 17 months; range, 11 to 23 months) underwent a modified Griggs tracheostomy during their stay in the ICU following cardiothor...

Sperner’s bound on the size of an antichain in the lattice P(S) of subsets of a finite set S has been generalized in three different directions: by Erdős to subsets of P(S) in which chains contain at most r elements; by Meshalkin to certain classes of compositions of S; by Griggs, Stahl, and Trotter through replacing the antichains by certain sets of pairs of disjoint elements of P(S). We unify...

This article presents our observations and experiences with the Griggs method of percutaneous dilation tracheostomy (PTD). We performed 200 tracheostomies on neurosurgical and surgical patients who needed temporary ventilatory support and protection. Early complications were defined and registered. Frequency of early complications was 22,5 %. The majority of complications were minor and improve...

Heparan sulfate/heparin class of proteoglycans (HSPG) have been shown to function in cellular attachment and infection of numerous viruses including picornaviruses. Coxsackievirus A9 (CV-A9) and human parechovirus 1 (HPeV-1) are integrin-binding members in the family Picornaviridae. CV-A9 Griggs and HPeV-1 Harris (prototype) strains have been reported not to bind to heparin, but it was recently...

Thirty-eight noncounselor subjects were administered a sixty-four item questionnaire to measure empathy (Hogan Empathy Scale) just prior to instruction, and three months following regular practice ofTranscendental Meditation (TM). Encouraging but nonsignificant statistical results were obtainedfor empathy levels for this subject sampling. A second group of seventeen nonrandomized, noncounselor,...