The airway management devices market is experiencing significant expansion, driven by increasing prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases, rising surgical procedures, and breakthrough innovations ...

The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) is a simple airway adjunct used by various healthcare professionals. It has some advantages over the oropharyngeal airway (OPA) but despite this it appears to be used ...

Testing for COVID-19 is commonly conducted using nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs of the posterior wall of the pharynx. The risk of aerosol generation associated with obtaining nasopharyngeal or ...

Explanation: The oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal tubes help maintain airway patency and facilitate ventilation. The placement of the oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal tube must not delay ventilation, ...

General anaesthesia necessitates securing the patient’s airway either with an endotracheal tube or a laryngeal mask airway (LMA); however, both carry the disadvantage of postoperative sore throat. A ...

Sputum, oropharyngeal and nasal airway samples were collected from tuberculosis patients and healthy individuals in Colombia, followed by microbiome characterization using metagenomic technique ...

Airway, breathing and cardiac support is vital in the deteriorating child to prevent progression to cardiorespiratory arrest. In this, the first of two articles about the paediatric emergency trolley, ...

Head and neck cancer is the seventh most common cancer worldwide2 and accounts for approximately 4% of all cancers in the United States.