Publications by authors named "T W Drew"
Background: Emergency Front of Neck access eFONA) via cricothyroidotomy using a size 6 internal diameter tracheal tube is recommended by the Difficult Airway Society in the event of a 'can't intubate, can't oxygenate' (CICO) scenario in adults. There is a lack of clear guidance on whether to retain or remove a previously inserted supraglottic airway device (SAD) before eFONA. We aimed to study the effect of both neck extension and insertion of an SAD on sagittal cricothyroid membrane (CTM) height.
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- * Three experiments used brain activity measurements (event-related potentials) to explore how visual working memory (VWM) and long-term memory (LTM) contribute to these searches.
- * The results showed that both VWM and LTM are involved in memory search, and the effectiveness of this search depends on how similar target items and distractors are, influencing our ability to reject irrelevant information quickly.
Article Synopsis
- Emergency front-of-neck access (eFONA) is a method to provide oxygen directly into the airway through the front of the neck.
- It includes techniques that penetrate either the cricothyroid membrane or the tracheal wall, but there is no universally agreed-upon method for doing this.
- The article aims to review current clinical practices, scientific findings, and societal guidelines related to eFONA.
Irrelevant salient distractors can trigger early quitting in visual search, causing observers to miss targets they might otherwise find. Here, we asked whether task-relevant salient cues can produce a similar early quitting effect on the subset of trials where those cues fail to highlight the target. We presented participants with a difficult visual search task and used two cueing conditions.
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