Ventilatory Strategies in Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Controversies and Current Updates.

Ventilatory management of patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) is a complex and controversial area of critical care medicine. Despite significant advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of CSCI and the development of novel interventions, there remains a lack of consensus about the optimal approach to ventilatory management in these patients. Some of the key controversies in CSCI ventilatory management include timing of tracheal intubation, non-invasive ventilation versus invasive ventilation, high versus low tidal volume, and early versus late tracheostomy.

Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia for Modified Radical Mastectomy in a High-Risk Patient: A Case Report With Literature Review.

Surgery is one of the mainstays of treatment in breast cancers. Typically, modified radical mastectomy (MRM) is done under general anesthesia (GA). However, GA is not a reasonable choice in patients with multiple comorbidities and difficult airways.

[King Vision video laryngoscope for severe post burn contracture neck: an encouraging experience].

Background And Objectives: Managing the airway of post burn contracture of the neck has always been challenging to anesthesiologists as it limits the alignment of oro-pharyngo-laryngeal axes because of functional and anatomical deformities that occur as a result of long standing contractures. Here the role of the King Vision video laryngoscope which is the latest in the series of video laryngoscope has been evaluated for such patients.

Case Report: A 35 year old male patient with post burn contracture of neck was scheduled for release of the contracture.

A comparative evaluation of the Airtraq and King Vision video laryngoscope as an intubating aid in adult patients.

Airtraq has been shown to improve ease of intubation in patients with normal and difficult airway. King Vision video laryngoscope is a newly introduced intubating device with an attached monitor. We here hypothesized that the King Vision video laryngoscope with channeled blade performs better during intubation as compared to Airtraq.

Efficacy of clonidine as an adjuvant to ropivacaine in supraclavicular brachial plexus block: A prospective study.

Background And Aims: Bupivacaine has been the most frequently used local anaesthetic in brachial plexus block, but ropivacaine has also been successfully tried in the recent past. It is less cardiotoxic, less arrhythmogenic, less toxic to the central nervous system than bupivacaine, and it has intrinsic vasoconstrictor property. The effects of clonidine have been studied in peripheral nerve blockade.

Comparison of the Airtraq and McCoy laryngoscopes using a rigid neck collar in patients with simulated difficult laryngoscopy.

Study Objective: To determine the efficacy of the Airtraq versus the McCoy laryngoscope as intubation devices with the neck stabilized by a rigid cervical collar.

Design: Prospective, randomized, double-blinded study.

Setting: Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College.