Videolaryngoscopy: a help or a hindrance?

Author(s):  
Victoria Stokes ◽  
Luke Dearden ◽  
Andrew Martin

Airway management is fundamental to anaesthesia, and technology may help with the safety of this procedure. Videolaryngoscopy is a developing area, which is becoming commonplace in anaesthesia practice.

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D Weatherall ◽  
Minal Menezes ◽  
Su May Koh ◽  
Michelle D Lazarus

Paediatric airway management is a challenging area of anaesthesia practice to learn. Techniques and skills required need modification from adult practice and gaining experience through exposure takes considerable time. Preparation to manage airway emergencies can be particularly difficult as these events are rare in paediatric practice. This study aimed to examine what educational approaches health professionals of varying backgrounds find useful when learning or teaching paediatric airway management. This qualitative study involved the conduct of five interdisciplinary focus groups; each group consisted of four to six health professionals from nursing, anaesthetic, simulation and critical care backgrounds. After transcription, focus group content was analysed using a qualitative method to identify common themes expressed within the interviews. Five themes were most prominent. These included the high value of hands-on learning, the challenges created by variability in exposure, the importance of developing basic airway skills, the potential for simulation to cover rare situations, and the problems of current airway models. These themes were evident in comments from both experienced and novice practitioners, clinicians with different subspecialty backgrounds and both medical and nursing staff. Learners and educators have similar priorities in airway education. This includes a strong recognition of the importance of spending time mastering basic airway techniques, a role for simulation in building non-technical skills and noted deficiencies in current airway models.


Anaesthesia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 1116-1130
Author(s):  
R. V. Johnson
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2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
TVSP Murthy ◽  
Parmeet Bhatia ◽  
RL Gogna ◽  
T Prabhakar

2010 ◽  
Vol 222 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
CC Röhr ◽  
G Schmalisch ◽  
M Rüdiger ◽  
H Hummler ◽  
M Nelle ◽  
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Author(s):  
Mihály Bakonyi ◽  
Hugo J. Woerdeman

Intensive research in matrix completions, moments, and sums of Hermitian squares has yielded a multitude of results in recent decades. This book provides a comprehensive account of this quickly developing area of mathematics and applications and gives complete proofs of many recently solved problems. With MATLAB codes and more than two hundred exercises, the book is ideal for a special topics course for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in mathematics or engineering, and will also be a valuable resource for researchers. Often driven by questions from signal processing, control theory, and quantum information, the subject of this book has inspired mathematicians from many subdisciplines, including linear algebra, operator theory, measure theory, and complex function theory. In turn, the applications are being pursued by researchers in areas such as electrical engineering, computer science, and physics. The book is self-contained, has many examples, and for the most part requires only a basic background in undergraduate mathematics, primarily linear algebra and some complex analysis. The book also includes an extensive discussion of the literature, with close to six hundred references from books and journals from a wide variety of disciplines.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu-Shan Xue ◽  
Ya-Yang Liu ◽  
Hui-Xian Li ◽  
Gui-Zhen Yang
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2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-174
Author(s):  
D. Hashimoto ◽  
S. Horiguchi ◽  
M. Okamoto

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