A. Pearce
Guy's Hospital
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Anaesthesia | 2004
John J. Henderson; M. Popat; I. P. Latto; A. Pearce
Problems with tracheal intubation are infrequent but are the most common cause of anaesthetic death or brain damage. The clinical situation is not always managed well. The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) has developed guidelines for management of the unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in the non‐obstetric adult patient without upper airway obstruction. These guidelines have been developed by consensus and are based on evidence and experience. We have produced flow‐charts for three scenarios: routine induction; rapid sequence induction; and failed intubation, increasing hypoxaemia and difficult ventilation in the paralysed, anaesthetised patient. The flow‐charts are simple, clear and definitive. They can be fully implemented only when the necessary equipment and training are available. The guidelines received overwhelming support from the membership of the DAS.
Anaesthesia | 2001
Donald Miller; I. Youkhana; W. U. Karunaratne; A. Pearce
Twenty previously used and supposedly clean, sterilised laryngeal mask airways, five bougies and five Magill forceps from the operating theatre, and 61 laryngoscope blades from different sites within a single hospital were randomly collected and stained with erythrosin B dye, which stains proteins if present on surfaces. All 20 laryngeal mask airways had been used before and were stained: four (20%) showed heavy staining, five (25%) moderate staining and 11 (55%) mild staining. Two unused laryngeal mask airways used as controls were without staining. Thirty‐four of 44 (77%) laryngoscope blades taken from the operating theatres, six of seven (86%) from the overnight intensive recovery room and all 10 (100%) from the wards were stained. None of the other items was totally clean. These findings suggest that current cleaning methods do not remove all proteinaceous material.
Anaesthesia | 2001
Donald Miller; I. Youkhana; W. U. Karunaratne; A. Pearce
Twenty previously used and supposedly clean, sterilised laryngeal mask airways, five bougies and five Magill forceps from the operating theatre, and 61 laryngoscope blades from different sites within a single hospital were randomly collected and stained with erythrosin B dye, which stains proteins if present on surfaces. All 20 laryngeal mask airways had been used before and were stained: four (20%) showed heavy staining, five (25%) moderate staining and 11 (55%) mild staining. Two unused laryngeal mask airways used as controls were without staining. Thirty-four of 44 (77%) laryngoscope blades taken from the operating theatres, six of seven (86%) from the overnight intensive recovery room and all 10 (100%) from the wards were stained. None of the other items was totally clean. These findings suggest that current cleaning methods do not remove all proteinaceous material.
Anaesthesia | 1996
A. Pearce; S. Shaw; S. Macklin
A new, rigid intubating fibrescope, the Upsherscope, was evaluated in clinical practice. Intubation was attempted in 200 adult patients and was successful in 191, with a median intubation time of 38s, range 14–154s. Intubation was straightforward in just under half of the patients. Difficulties were encountered in picking up the epiglottis, in passing the tracheal tube between the vocal cords and with secretions interfering with the view. In two patients known to be difficult to intubate, the Upsherscope was successful in one patient using an awake technique and failed in the other.
European Journal of Anaesthesiology | 2001
Donald Miller; I. Youkhana; A. Pearce
Anaesthesia | 2004
J. Henderson; M. Popat; P. Latto; A. Pearce
Anaesthesia | 2000
S. Walton; A. Pearce
Anaesthesia | 1998
A. Patel; A. Pearce
Anaesthesia | 2002
S. Das; A. Pearce; S. M. Yentis
Anaesthesia | 2008
John J. Henderson; M. Popat; P. Latto; A. Pearce