Traditionally, the sniffing position has been considered a standard head and neck position during direct laryngoscopy. The perfect head and neck position for video laryngoscopy has yet not been described. Hence, we planned the present study to compare the neutral and sniffing position for ease of ...
Background: Traditionally, the patient's head is placed in a neutral position with a chin-lift to facilitate light wand guided endotracheal intubation. However, our study found that the sniffing position was more effective. In this study, we aimed to compare the two positions of light wand gui...
in position inside or outside the box. The curators instructed the elephant to reach for and find the food. The elephant employed multiple strategies to find the food including sweeping its trunk side to side in the box as well as sniffing for the food. In the trials where the elephant us...
Five replicate measurements were performed at each position of the vapor source and for each sampling mode (sniffing vs. inhale only). The vapor source was capped between each experiment to prevent undesired loss of TNT and to prevent vapor contamination on surrounding surfaces. The area was rinse...
Neutral position increased POGO score in 31 patients and decreased POGO score in 13 patients compare to sniffing position (p=0.017). There were no significant differences between the two head positions with regard to intubation time or degree of convenience during intubation.#Neutral position improved...
Background: Traditionally, the patient's head is placed in a neutral position with a chin-lift to facilitate light wand guided endotracheal intubation. However, our study found that the sniffing position was more effective. In this study, we aimed to compare the two positions of light wand ...
Comparison of vocal cord view between neutral and sniffing position during orotracheal intubation using fiberoptic bronchoscope: a prospective, randomized cross over studyAirway management, Fiberoptic bronchoscope, Intubation, Patient positioningBackground In intubation using fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB), ...
The percentage of glottic opening score was lower for C‐ MAC neutral group as compared with other three groups (p = 0.01). There was no significant difference in the ease of intubation between the 'sniffing' and the neutral position when using the KingVision and the C‐ MAC video...
Yamada R, Maruyama K, Akihisa Y, Koyama Y, Andoh T. Comparison of success rate of blind intubation through Air-Q and LMA FastrachTM in sniffing position and neutral position. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2013;30:249. doi: 10.1097/00003643-201306001-00778....
Conventional direct laryngoscopy with the curved Macintosh blade is a fundamental skill for all anaesthetists and has been the cornerstone of airway management for many years. This technique relies on the operator aligning the oro-pharyngo-laryngeal structures and inserting an endotracheal tube into ...