Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
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The McGRATH® MAC videolaryngoscope (McG) is a new device for tracheal intubation. Its utility has been reported in both tracheal intubation in children and difficult tracheal intubation for adults. Initially, the blade introduced was for adult use only, but the one for children was also in the market. We examined the usefulness of the McG for tracheal intubation in 100 children. ⋯ McG is useful in both routine and difficult airway management for children.
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Case Reports
[A Case of Epidural Hematoma after Removal of Epidural Catheter in a Patient with Coagulation Disorder].
A 75-year-old man with abdominal aortic aneurysm underwent Y-graft replacement under combination of general anesthesia and epidural anesthesia. Although we inserted an epidural catheter at first attempt from T11-12, nurse cut the epidural catheter accidently. We re-inserted from the same place. ⋯ After one hour, he could move leg but had numbness of the left leg. MRI revealed epidural hematoma from T8 to T10. Although the cause of epidural hematoma remains unclear, we should have proposed to check anticoagulant data when catheter was pulled out from epidural space.
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Biography Historical Article
[Seishu Hanaoka Did Not Describe His Anesthetic as Tsusensan--A Misunderstanding of the Terms Mafutsusan and Tsusensan].
It is widespread even among medical professionals as well as medical historians that the formal term of the general anesthetic that Hanaoka developed is Tsusensan and its alias name is Mafutsusan. Hanaoka himself, however, described it as Mafutsusan in his Nyugan Chikenroku, the case report of the first breast cancer excision under general anesthesia with the anesthetic, and a large number of his disciples all used the term Mafutsusan to denote the anesthetic in their manuscripts. The description of Tsusensan has not been found in the documents written in the Edo period, and this name is detected only in the epitaph of Hanaoka. Consequently, we should refer to Hanaoka's anesththetic as "Mafutsusan, another name Tsusensan" instead of "Tsusensan, another name Mafutsusan."