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Ryu Komatsu
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 59
Citations - 1429
Ryu Komatsu is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Intubation. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 51 publications receiving 1226 citations. Previous affiliations of Ryu Komatsu include Cleveland Clinic & University of Louisville.
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Remifentanil for general anaesthesia: a systematic review
Ryu Komatsu,Alparslan Turan,Mukadder Orhan-Sungur,J. McGuire,Oliver C. Radke,Christian C. Apfel,Christian C. Apfel +6 more
TL;DR: Remifentanil does not seem to offer any advantage for lengthy, major interventions, but may be useful for selected patients, e.g. when postoperative respiratory depression is a concern.
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Anesthetic induction with etomidate, rather than propofol, is associated with increased 30-day mortality and cardiovascular morbidity after noncardiac surgery.
TL;DR: Clinicians should use etomidate judiciously, considering that improved hemodynamic stability at induction may be accompanied by substantially worse longer-term outcomes, especially on 30-day mortality.
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Learning curves for bag-and-mask ventilation and orotracheal intubation: an application of the cumulative sum method.
Ryu Komatsu,Yusuke Kasuya,Hisanori Yogo,Daniel I. Sessler,Edward J. Mascha,Dongsheng Yang,Makoto Ozaki +6 more
TL;DR: Participating interns developed mask ventilation skills faster than orotracheal intubation skills, and there was more variability in the rate at which intubations skills developed.
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Ultrasound quantification of anterior soft tissue thickness fails to predict difficult laryngoscopy in obese patients.
Ryu Komatsu,Partho P. Sengupta,Anupama Wadhwa,Ozan Akca,Daniel I. Sessler,Tiberiu Ezri,Rainer Lenhardt +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the thickness of pretracheal soft tissue at the level of the vocal cords is not a good predictor of difficult laryngoscopy in obese patients in the United States.
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Effects of supplemental oxygen and dexamethasone on surgical site infection: a factorial randomized trial
A. Kurz,E. Fleischmann,D. I. Sessler,D.J. Buggy,Christian C. Apfel,Ozan Akca,Edith Fleischmann,Erol Erdik,Klaus Eredics,Barbara Kabon,Friedrich Herbst,Sara Kazerounian,Andre Kugener,Corinna Marschalek,Pia Mikocki,Monika Niedermayer,Eva Obewegeser,Ina Ratzenboeck,Romana Rozum,Sonja Sindhuber,Katja Schlemitz,Karl Schebesta,Anton Stift,Andrea Kurz,Daniel I. Sessler,Endrit Bala,Samuel T. Chen,Jagan Devarajan,Ankit Maheshwari,Ramatia Mahboobi,Edward J. Mascha,Hassan Nagem,Suman Rajogopalan,Luke F. Reynolds,Adrian Alvarez,Luca Stocchi,Anthony G. Doufas,Raghavendra Govinda,Yusuke Kasuya,Ryu Komatsu,Rainer Lenhardt,Mukadder Orhan-Sungur,Papiya Sengupta,Anupama Wadhwa,Susan Galandiuk,Donal J. Buggy,Mujeeb Arain,Siun Burke,B. McGuire,Jackie Ragheb,Akikio Taguchi +50 more
TL;DR: It is shown that low-dose dexamethasone can be used for nausea and vomiting prophylaxis without promoting wound infections, and the preponderance of clinical evidence suggests that administration of 80% supplemental inspired oxygen does not reduce infection risk.