Publications by authors named "Daniel Cordovani"
Background: Caesarean section (CS) is the most common inpatient surgical procedure performed in Canada. CS is known to cause moderate-to-severe pain, which is suggested to be associated with postpartum depression and persistent pain. Existing limitations in multimodal analgesia and conscious attempts to avoid opioids highlight the need for non-pharmacological strategies.
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- A systematic review was conducted to compare video laryngoscopy (VL) and direct laryngoscopy (DL) for intubating critically ill adult patients in emergency and ICU settings.
- The analysis included 20 randomized controlled trials and found that VL likely improves first pass success rates and reduces the likelihood of esophageal intubations compared to DL.
- Additionally, VL may lead to fewer dental injuries and aspiration events, with no significant difference in mortality rates between the two methods.
Purpose: In Canada, three out of 17 medical schools do not mandate an anesthesia rotation in their clerkship curriculum. Understanding the effects of a mandatory anesthesiology rotation is important in determining its value to the specialty and guiding decision-making for medical educators. We sought to determine whether a mandatory anesthesia rotation affected students' understanding of anesthesiology, as well as their perspectives on anesthesia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Learning needs are influenced by the stage of learning and medical specialty. We sought to investigate the characteristics of a good clinical teacher in anesthesiology from the medical students' perspective.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative descriptive study to analyze written comments of medical students about their clinical teachers' performances.
Background: In patients with predictive features associated with easy direct laryngoscopy, videolaryngoscoy with the GlideScope has been shown to require less force when compared with Macintosh direct laryngoscopy.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare forces applied with Glidescope vs. Macintosh laryngoscopes in patients with predictive features associated with difficult direct laryngoscopy.
A literature review on observational learning for medical motor skills and anesthesia teaching.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
December 2016
Motor skill practice is very important to improve performance of medical procedures and could be enhanced by observational practice. Observational learning could be particularly important in the medical field considering that patients' safety prevails over students' training. The mechanism of observational learning is based on the mirror neuron system, originally discovered in the monkey pre-motor cortex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The primary objective of our study was to determine the minimum intravenous dose of carbetocin required to produce adequate uterine contraction in 95% of women (effective dose [ED](95)) undergoing elective Cesarean delivery (CD).
Methods: Eighty term pregnant women with low risk for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) undergoing elective CD under spinal anesthesia were randomly allocated to receive carbetocin intravenously in doses of 80 μg, 90 μg, 100 μg, 110 μg, or 120 μg upon delivery. The consultant obstetrician evaluated the efficacy of the patient's uterine tone as satisfactory or unsatisfactory.