Pulse oximetry

Pulse oximetry was taped on patient’s toe. False desaturation was noticed from irregular waveforms and was corrected when patient uncrossed legs. • Chest assessment – Wheezes were heard on expiration in the right upper lobe, right middle lobe, and right lower…

umbar spinal canal stenosis is the narrowing or stricture of the spinal canal, with possible subsequent nerve impingement (1). The canal components that contribute to its narrowing include facet joint hypertrophy, ligamentum flavum thickening, bone spurs, and multilevel disc bulge or protrusion (2). Lumbar spinal canal stenosis is one of the most Pain Physician: March/April 2016: 19:139-146 140 www.painphysicianjournal.com sion), and patients with a history of adverse reaction to either local…

consisted of preoperative level of anxiety (not anxious, some anxiety, anxious), procedure types (dentoalveolar, pathology, other), anesthesia level grouped as MS or , DS/GA, anesthesia time, monitoring techniques (capnography, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, pericardial stethoscope, pretracheal stethoscope, electrocardiography (ECG), monitoring chest movement, electroencephalogram (EEG), temperature), other monitoring method (yes or no),…

Data for this study were derived from an AAOMS Outcomes Assessment Project study of anesthesia and third molar extractions in private practice oral and maxillofacial surgery offices. A randomly selected sample of 300 OMS were instructed to enter data on all eligible patients they treated during a one month period. This study has two study samples, a surgeon sample and subject sample. The surgeon sample was composed of OMSs randomly selected from the population of AAOMS members between June, 2011…

Required Uniform Assignment: Interdisciplinary Care Gary Grant Chamberlain College of Nursing NR340: Critical Care Nursing Required Uniform Assignment: Interdisciplinary Care Background information Demographics: 65-year-old black male; No known allergies; Full code status History of present illness: Patient presents to the Emergency Department with complaints of stroke like symptoms. Patient is visibly weak on the left side and slurred speech. Relevant past medical and surgical…

One of the most fundamental skills of a pre-hospital EMS provider is management of the airway. Having the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the pediatric airway along with the various tools now at our disposal, have allowed the opportunity to have a much more successful rate of securing the pediatric airway. The one thing to remember is, “Kids are not small adults!” There are many differences from the anatomical and physiological perspective along with pathological conditions that…

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE As a child I remember watching an episode of ‘I dream of Jeannie’ which within the world of my childhood innocence brought about a spirit of magic. I recollect spurts of apparition amongst the characters, moving from one place to another in literally the blink of an eyelid. But what remained back in my head was the crux of the entire series where one can see the genie named ‘Jeannie’ living in a bottle with all her belongings and a room like structure all within that thin…

Easy pediatric nasal intubation Abstract: Background: Pediatric anesthesiologists use Magill forceps commonly during nasotracheal intubation but often have difficultly during advancing the nasotracheal tube into the trachea, differences in pediatric airway structure relative to adults are thought to be the reason of this problem. The modified pediatric Magill forceps (modified by Farrukh and his colleagues) added anteroposterior firm grasping of the nasotracheal tube enables us for…

unconsciousness and unaware during the entire surgery. Based on this anesthesia it is important to monitor the patient’s vital signs continuously intra-op and post-op. Vital signs to monitor include, heart rate, blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respirations, pulse oximetry, and exhaled tidal volume (Ignatavicius & Workman 2013). If the anesthesiologist…

In addition, Owlet device tries to mimic the hospital grade monitors by adding an alarm that signals off alerts (). Owlet is working on achieving the same level of pulse oximetry readings from newborn infants as hospital monitors are (). The disadvantages to this device are there “no mention of privacy and hacker concerns” (). Political/Legal Currently, the device is not FDA approved and is not appropriate for clinical…