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Unexpected and asymptomatic lingual thyroid as a cause of difficult intubation
24 May 2012
Adolfo Pisanu, Daniela Deplano, Alessandro Uccheddu, Mauro Cardu
Lingual thyroid is a rare clinical condition that may cause difficult tracheal intubation and is not always predictable during a routine preoperative examination . We experienced one case of unexpecte...
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A rapid emergence device to aid recovery from a volatile anesthetic in stage II nasal reconstruction repair
24 May 2012
L. Lazarre Ogden, Steven Mobley
We report a novel use of the ANEclear (Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Schaumberg, IL, USA) device for emergence from a very delicate nasal reconstruction with a tenuous flap.
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Reflux-preventing face mask designed for painless gastroscopy
24 May 2012
Zhong Jiang, Xiaoli Wu, Yue Liu, Zhengliang Ma
Gastroscopy, a procedure performed using short-term intravenous anesthetics and analgesics such as propofol and remifentanil, is performed widely. To ensure safety during gastroscopy, we invented a ve...
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Oculocardiac reflex elicited during debridement of an empty orbit
24 May 2012
James C. Tsai, James W. Heitz
The oculocardiac reflex (OCR) is also known as the Aschner-Dagnini Reflex, having been reported separately in 1908, first by Guiseppe Dagnini and later, Bernard Aschner . It is a well-described cardia...
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Bulk oxygen tank vaporizer leak
24 May 2012
Thomas E. Schulte, Ellen K. Roberts, Ankit Agrawal
We report an avoidable hospital disaster in which the bulk cryogenic liquid oxygen supply had to be emergently turned off due to a crack in the oxygen vaporizer component of the system.
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