Prospective validation of a new airway management algorithm and predictive features of intubation difficulty.

Background: Some patients have features that indicate possible difficulty with direct laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation. Prediction of the likely outcome and selection of patients for an enhanced management algorithm would reduce the possible harm from failed intubation attempts.

Methods: Adult elective patients were assessed for seven features associated with difficult direct laryngoscopy, ranked in difficulty from 0 to 3.

Role of nutritional status in the early postoperative prognosis of patients operated for retroperitoneal liposarcoma (RLS): A single center experience.

Purpose: To assess the nutritional status and its role in the outcome of patients operated for retroperitoneal liposarcoma (RLS).

Material And Methods: Retrospective study on consecutive patients operated with en bloc compartment resection for primary or local recurrence of RLS between 2016 and 2017. Preoperative nutritional and laboratory assessment comprising serum albumin, serum transthyretin, orosomucoid, and CRP was systematically performed.

Adducted vocal cords relieved by neuromuscular blocking drug: a cause of impaired mechanical ventilation when using a laryngeal mask airway: two photographically documented cases.

Two cases of vocal cord closure, which was responsible for acute intraoperative impairment of mechanical ventilation in two patients with entropy-controlled depth of anesthesia, are reported. Administration of low-dose neuromuscular blocking drug was associated with immediate vocal cord relaxation and restoration of efficient mechanical ventilation.