Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Feb 2013
[Orotracheal intubation difficulty with lighted stylet: correlation of body mass index and neck circumference].
To evaluate the difficulty of intubation with a lighted stylet by correlating the body mass index (BMI) with the neck or cervical circumference (CC), and to establish the values of BMI and CC that could help identify a possible difficult intubation with this device. ⋯ A lineal correlation exists between a BMI above 33 kg/m² and/or a CC greater than 40 cm and a difficult intubation using lighted stylet. Another method other than transillumination is recommended for orotracheal intubation in a patient with both characteristics.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Feb 2013
Historical Article[Contributions of the Spanish Navy to the introduction of anaesthesia in Spain. Medical science in the last third of the XIX century].
The last decades of the xix century were years of resurgence and progress in the field of Naval Health, which was in the vanguard of European health structures at that time. In this era, the navy physicians produced some documents known as "Memorias Clínicas" (Clinical Reports), previously established as obligatory in their rules and regulations. ⋯ The introduction of these discoveries was surrounded by immense controversy, with its defenders and critics. The exclusiveness of the documents presented here is an original testimony to the medical-surgical knowledge of the era and places Naval Health in the vanguard of European health structures at that time.