Context-Sensitive Airway Management
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 14-year-old girl is scheduled to have an excision of a mandibular mass in a hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. She is otherwise healthy, takes no…
ANESTHESIA
Aspiration: Risks and Prevention
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pulmonary aspiration, an uncommon occurrence in nonemergency airway management, may lead to a spectrum of sequelae, from no discernable effects to significant morbidity and mortality. In…
How to Test for Trends
How to Test for Trends: Introduction Print Section Listen The first statistical problem we posed in this book, in connection with Figure 1-2A, dealt with a drug that was thought…
Pharmacology of Drugs Used in Airway Management
PHYSIOLOGY OF TRACHEAL INTUBATION Print Section Listen What Are the Physiological Responses to Tracheal Intubation? The goal of tracheal intubation is to provide a successful and definitive airway. Unfortunately, laryngoscopy…
Human Factors and Airway Management
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A lady in her thirties presented for endoscopic sinus surgery and septoplasty. Preoperative assessment found only a congenitally fused neck vertebra and use of nasal…
Confidence Intervals
Confidence Intervals: Introduction Print Section Listen All the statistical procedures developed so far were designed to help decide whether or not a set of observations is compatible with some hypothesis….
The Special Case of Two Groups: The t Test
The Special Case of Two Groups: The t Test: Introduction Print Section Listen As we have just seen in Chapter 3, many investigations require comparing only two groups. In addition,…
How to Analyze Survival Data
How to Analyze Survival Data: Introduction Print Section Listen All the methods that we have discussed so far require “complete” observations, in the sense that we know the outcome of…
What Does “Not Significant” Really Mean?
What Does “Not Significant” Really Mean?: Introduction Print Section Listen Thus far, we have used statistical methods to reach conclusions by seeing how compatible the observations were with the null…
How to Test for Differences between Groups
How to Test for Differences between Groups: Introduction Print Section Listen Statistical methods are used to summarize data and test hypotheses with those data. Chapter 2 discussed how to use…
