Improving the management of patients with chronic cardiac and respiratory diseases by extending pulse-oximeter uses: the dynamic pulse-oximetry.

Respiratory and cardio-vascular chronic diseases are among the most common noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide, accounting for a large portion of health-care costs in terms of mortality and disability. Their prevalence is expected to rise further in the coming years as the population ages. The current model of care for diagnosing and monitoring NCDs is out of date because it results in late medical interventions and/or an unfavourable cost-effectiveness balance based on reported symptoms and subsequent inpatient tests and treatments.

Awake intubation with the Bonfils fibrescope in patients with difficult airway.

Background: In the majority of patients with difficult airways intubated using the Bonfils fibrescope, intubations have been performed under general anaesthesia. Our aim is to report a consecutive series of intubations on awake patients with anticipated difficult airways, performed using the Bonfils fibrescope.

Methods: A prospective case series of intubations performed with the Bonfils fibrescope by a single anaesthesiologist is described in this article.