Publications by authors named "May Han Loh"
The difficult airway involves the complex interaction between patient factors, the clinical setting and the practitioner's skills (Apfelbaum in Anesthesiology 118(2):251-70, 2013 and Mark et al. in Anesth Analg 121(1):127-139, 2015). It can also be a result of preparedness and system failures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Teaching endotracheal intubation is uniquely challenging due to its technical, high-stakes, and highly time-sensitive nature. The GoPro is a small, lightweight, high-resolution action camera with a wide-angle field of view that can encompass both the airway as well as the procedurist's hands and positioning technique when worn with a head mount. We aimed to evaluate its effectiveness in improving intubation teaching for novice learners in a simulated setting, via a two-arm, parallel group, randomized controlled superiority trial with 1:1 allocation ratio.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoronavirus disease 2019, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As the pandemic evolves rapidly, there are data emerging to suggest that pregnant women diagnosed as having coronavirus disease 2019 can have severe morbidities (up to 9%). This is in contrast to earlier data that showed good maternal and neonatal outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCesarean sections under spinal anesthesia are now a daily occurrence in most tertiary hospitals. We report the first published case of inadvertent spinal injection of ondansetron without any neurological sequelae in a patient undergoing elective Cesarean section under spinal anesthesia. She did not experience any permanent neurological sequelae, and also did not exhibit any central neuraxial opioid side effects-nausea, vomiting or pruritus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- Managing complicated monochorionic twins and fetal anomalies is challenging in areas without advanced fetal therapy, prompting efforts in rapid selective feticide methods like radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and selective fetoscopic laser photocoagulation (SFLP) to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).
- In a study involving five pregnancies, RFA techniques were quickly learned, while SFLP required a more structured learning approach under the guidance of an experienced proctor, leading to successful live births for most co-twins.
- The experience shows that supervised directed learning can help smaller medical units quickly provide effective fetal therapy services, complementing traditional training methods and enhancing overall team capabilities.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to review the presenting features of pediatric patients found to have omental infarction with a normal appendix at surgery.
Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of all patients with surgically proven omental infarction treated at KK Women's and Children's Hospital between May 1997 and January 2004.
Results: Twelve children (10 boys and 2 girls) were treated for primary omental infarction.