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Andranik Ovassapian
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 45
Citations - 4150
Andranik Ovassapian is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intubation & Tracheal intubation. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 45 publications receiving 3895 citations. Previous affiliations of Andranik Ovassapian include Northwestern University & Veterans Health Administration.
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practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult airway An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway
Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum,Carin A. Hagberg,Robert A. Caplan,Casey D. Blitt,Richard T. Connis,David G. Nickinovich,Jonathan L. Benumof,Frederic A. Berry,Robert H. Bode,Frederick W. Cheney,Orin F. Guidry,Andranik Ovassapian +11 more
TL;DR: This document updates the “Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway: An Updated Report by”, which provides basic recommendations that are supported by a synthesis and analysis of the current literature, expert and practitioner opinion, open-forum commentary, and clinical feasibility data.
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Use of the intubating LMA-Fastrach in 254 patients with difficult-to-manage airways.
TL;DR: The clinical experience presented herein indicates that this device may be particularly useful in the emergency and elective treatment of patients in whom intubation with a rigid laryngoscope has failed and in the treatment of Patients with immobilized cervical spines.
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Fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation--incidence and causes of failure.
TL;DR: The incidence of difficult fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation (FNI) and the failure rate in 423 consecutive carefully monitored such intubations are reported.
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Comparison of direct and video-assisted views of the larynx during routine intubation
Marshal B. Kaplan,Carin A. Hagberg,Denham S. Ward,Ansgar M. Brambrink,Ashwani K. Chhibber,Thomas Heidegger,Leonardo J. Lozada,Andranik Ovassapian,David Roy Parsons,James Ramsay,Wolfram Wilhelm,Bernhard Zwissler,Haus J. Gerig,Christian Hofstetter,Suzanne Karan,Nevin Kreisler,Robert M. Pousman,Andreas Thierbach,M. Wrobel,George Berci +19 more
TL;DR: Video-assisted laryngoscopy provides an improved view of the larynx, as compared with direct visualization, and may be useful for cases of difficult intubation and reintubation as well as for teaching laryNGoscopy and intubations.
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Practice patterns in managing the difficult airway by anesthesiologists in the United States.
TL;DR: Although the teaching of alternative methods of securing a difficult airway has become ubiquitous, most anesthesiologists rely on direct laryngoscopy and fiberoptic-aided intubation in most clinical circumstances.