ObjectivesTo inform the shared decision-making process between clinicians and older adults and their surrogates regarding emergency intubation.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingMulticenter, emergency department (ED)-based cohort.ParticipantsAdults aged 65 and older intubated in the ED from 2008 to 2015 from 262 hospitals across the United Sta...
Published in BMC Anesthesiology
BackgroundObesity is a serious disorder and may bring about many difficulties of perioperative management. A systematic review was conducted to assess the association between obesity and difficult intubation.MethodsWe searched electronic databases for related reviews and references of meta-analyses on August 14, 2017. The databases of PubMed, Embas...
Published in International journal of nursing studies
Oral care of intubated patients is essential to the prevention of infection and patient discomfort. However, barriers to oral access and delivery of oral care have received little attention. To determine prevalence and predictors of oral access difficulty. A prospective, observational, multi-center study. Four intensive care units in Toronto, Canad...
Published in Medical Journal, Armed Forces India
BACKGROUND: Studying ventilation and intrathoracic pressure (ITP) induced by chest compressions (CC) during Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation is challenging and important aspects such as airway closure have been mostly ignored. We hypothesized that Thiel Embalmed Cadavers could constitute an appropriate model.
METHODS: We assessed respiratory mechanics...
© 2018 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to detect novel mesenchymal stem cell peptides/biomarkers of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in the tracheal aspirate fluid (TAF) of preterm infants. STUDY DESIGN: Participants included infants less than 32 weeks' gestational age or birth weight under 1500 grams w...
Published in Critical Care
BackgroundPercutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) in critically ill patients often involves bronchoscopic optical guidance. However, this procedure is not without disadvantages. Therefore, we aimed to study a recently introduced endotracheal tube-mounted camera (VivaSightTM-SL tube [VST]; ETView, Misgav, Israel) for guiding PDT.MethodsThis was...
We thank the authors for this letter and appreciate the opportunity to respond to the comments and clarify our position. We agree with the authors in a number of their specific comments, and will attempt to address each of them. The first comment refers to the difference in video laryngoscopy devices and how "… pooling of results from studies evalu...
Published in Pharmacology & therapeutics
Clinical pharmacologists and toxicologists are often faced with predicting equivalent dosages for humans from biological observations in laboratory animals. Allometric scaling has been used extensively as the basis for extrapolation of drug dosage that might be expected to produce the equivalent biological effects. Allometry is the study of size an...
ObjectivesEstablishing a definitive airway is often the first step in emergency department treatment of critically ill patients. Currently, there is no agreed upon consensus as to the most efficacious method of airway confirmation. Our objective was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of real-time sonography performed by resident physicians to con...
