The American journal of emergency medicine
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Letter Randomized Controlled Trial
Ultrasonography as a tool for prehospital recognition of tension pneumothorax: Preliminary data.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Comparison of local anesthetic effect of lidocaine by jet injection vs needle infiltration in lumbar puncture.
Usual routes of drug administration are often painful and invasive. Nowadays, using jet injection has been introduced successfully, as a noninvasive and painless method of anesthetic delivery in performing different procedures. ⋯ Injecting lidocaine by jet injector is less painful than infiltrating it by needle and syringe.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of head position on the success rate of blind intubation using intubating supraglottic airway devices.
To evaluate the effect of head position on the performance of intubating supraglottic airway devices, we compared the success rate of blind intubation in the head-elevated and the pillowless head positions with the LMA Fastrach and the air-Q, and the change of glottic visualization through the air-Q. ⋯ Although the head-elevated position improved glottic visualization in the air-Q, the head position had minimal influence on the success rate of blind intubation with either the Fastrach or the air-Q.