Emergency airway management is often complicated by the presence of blood, emesis or
other contaminants in the airway. Traditional airway management education has lacked task …

Methods We modified a standard difficult-airway mannequin head (Nasco, Ft. Atkinson, WI)
with hardware-store equipment to enable simulation of vomiting or hemorrhage during …

Novel technologies and techniques can influence airway management execution as well as
procedural and clinical outcomes. While conventional wisdom underscores the need for …

Background Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is a mode of non-invasive
ventilation used to treat a variety of respiratory conditions in the emergency department and …

Nucleolar organizer regions are collections of nucleolar proteins associated with ribosomal
genes that can be visualized in histologic sections using a silver colloid stain, thus the term …

In the next few years, the number of long-term space missions will significantly increase.
Providing safe concepts for emergencies including airway management will be a highly …

STUDY AIM: We present a pilot study in which we use an ovine model to develop a rapid,
safe cricothyrotomy technique using a Melker cuffed 5.0 cricothyrotomy catheter loaded over …

Background Medical support for space exploration missions must prepare for severe
medical events in conditions of microgravity. A key component to managing these events is …

Recent resuscitation guidelines have been altered to prioritize chest compression over
airway management and have strongly advocated the placement of a supraglottic airway …

Introduction Airway management, mechanical ventilation and resuscitation can be
performed almost everywhere–even in space–but not under water. The present study …