ALLMedicine™ Tracheal Intubation Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Awake Tracheal Intubation (ATI) can be performed in cases where there is potential for difficult airway management. It is considered an aerosol generating procedure and is a source of concern to healthcare workers due to the risk of transmission o...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Videolaryngoscopy Is Extremely Valuable, But Should It Be the Standard for Tracheal Intubation?|2023|Asai T,Jagannathan N,|

Mar 18th, 2023 - In this Pro-Con commentary article, we discuss whether videolaryngoscopy (VL) should be the standard of care for tracheal intubation. Dr Aziz makes the case that VL should be the standard of care, while Dr Berkow follows with a challenge of that a...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Advancing the endotracheal tube (ETT) over a flexible bronchoscope (FB) during awake fiber-optic intubation (AFOI) is often impeded. Various maneuvers and tracheal tubes designed to overcome this obstruction may also be unsuccessful or costly. The...

Mar 11th, 2023 - Post-extubation dysphagia is high in critically ill patients and is not easily recognized. This study aimed to identify risk factors for acquired swallowing disorders in the intensive care unit (ICU). We have retrieved all relevant research publis...

Feb 7th, 2018 - These guidelines describe a comprehensive strategy to optimize oxygenation, airway management, and tracheal intubation in critically ill patients, in all hospital locations. They are a direct response to the 4th National Audit Project of the Royal...

Oct 18th, 2013 - Previously active in the mid-1990s, the Canadian Airway Focus Group (CAFG) studied the unanticipated difficult airway and made recommendations on management in a 1998 publication. The CAFG has since reconvened to examine more recent scientific lit...

Jan 11th, 2013 - Respiratory complications after tracheal extubation are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, suggesting that process improvements in this clinical area are needed. The decreased rate of respiratory adverse events occurring during t...

Nov 9th, 2012 - The ABCs of trauma resuscitation begin with the airway evaluation, and effective airway management is imperative in the care of a patient with critical injury. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice Management Guidelines commit...

Aug 2nd, 2011 - Routine use of a partograph is associated with a reduction in the use of forceps, but is not associated with a reduction in the use of vacuum extraction (Level A). Early artificial rupture of the membranes, associated with oxytocin perfusion, does...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Detailed Description: Laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation cause increased intracranial pressure due to hypoxia, hypercapnia, straining, or coughing. It may be an indirect result of increased arterial and venous pressure, as well as a direct e...

Mar 9th, 2023 - The Delphi method involves the following 4 steps: Step 1: Establishing a preliminary list of broad domains A focused literature review was performed by select membership of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), and based on their...

Mar 9th, 2023 - With ethical committee's approval the investigarors recruited for this cross-over trial pediatric anesthesiologists and intensivists. Emergency tracheotomy consists of four steps: vertical skin incision, strap muscles separation (2 Backhaus clamps...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Eligible children will be prepared for intubation according to the local SOPs of the pediatric anesthesia or pediatric intensive care departments. Mandatory monitoring will consist of: SpO2, HR, NIBP. Induction of anesthesia: All children included...

Mar 8th, 2023 - Oesophageal intubation can cause death. Selective intubation can induce a poor ventilation, hypoxemia, atelectasis etc… It's not rare in paediatric intubation. The prevalence of malposition of endotracheal tube is 30 to 40% in babies and infants l...

Aug 22nd, 2022 - The first consensus guideline aimed at reducing the incidence of unrecognized esophageal intubation by recommending consideration of technical and human factors that contribute to the problem has been issued in an effort to lower rates of preventa...

May 10th, 2022 - Recently, I encountered a study in Pediatrics that hoped to answer the question of whether there was any benefit to tactile stimulation in those nerve-rattling moments when a newborn didn’t seem to take much interest in breathing: “Tactile stimula.

Feb 28th, 2022 - Patients given opioid-free forms of anesthesia spent less time in the hospital following pancreatic resection and reported lower pain scores in a retrospective study of 77 patients. Although opioids have long been a mainstay of pain control after ...

Aug 11th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For adults hospitalized with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), but not high-flow nasal oxygenation (HFNO), reduces the likelihood of needing tracheal intubation, comp...

Aug 5th, 2021 - Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 were less likely to need tracheal intubation when they received continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, researchers said. Preliminary data from a study also found there was no benefit from using hi...