Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Sep 2016
Time-dependent and independent neurophysiological indicators of prognosis in post-anoxic coma subjects treated by therapeutic hypothermia.
Evaluation of prognostic value of electroencephalography (EEG) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) according to different recording times. ⋯ EEG is a reliable time-dependent predictor of a good outcome (within 12 hours) and a poor outcome (after 72 hours). SEP is a time-independent predictor of a poor outcome.
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Minerva anestesiologica · Sep 2016
Near zero difficult tracheal intubation and tracheal intubation failure: too good to be true.
Unpredicted Difficult Tracheal Intubation (DTI) with Macintosh occurs frequently in obese patients. We investigated the incidence of DTI using an algorithm based on preoperative assessment with the El-Ganzouri Risk Index (EGRI) and Glidescope® routine use. ⋯ The incidence of DTI and Intubation Failure was reduced to near-zero using Glidescope® and the Besta Airway Algorithm in this sample of morbidly obese patients.