Tracheal intubation remains a common procedure during neonatal intensive care. Rapid confirmation of correct tube placement is important because tube malposition is associated with serious adverse outcomes. The current gold standard test to confirm tube position is a chest radiograph, however this is often delayed until after ventilation has commenced. Hence, point of care methods to confirm correct tube placement have been developed. The aim of this article is to review the available literature on tube placement in newborn infants. We reviewed books, resuscitation manuals and articles from 1830 to the present with the search terms “Infant, Newborn”, “Endotracheal intubation”, “Resuscitation”, “Clinical signs”, “Radiography”, “Respiratory Function Tests”, “Laryngoscopy”, “Ultrasonography”, and “Bronchoscopy”. Various techniques have been studied to help clinicians assess tube placement. However, despite 85 years of clinical practice, the search for higher success rates and quicker intubation continues. Currently, chest radiography remains the gold standard test to confirm tube position. However, rigorous evaluation of new techniques is required to ensure the safety of newborn infants. 相似文献
This study evaluated the myocardial contrast effect and safety of polygelin colloid solution selectively injected into the coronary arteries in 25 patients during two-dimensional echocardiography. Six patients (group I) had selective intracoronary injections of nonagitated and 19 (group II) of hand-agitated polygelin colloid solution. Myocardial contrast was seen on two-dimensional echocardiographic cross sections in three patients of group I and in all patients of group II; in 16 patients it was also seen on M-mode echocardiograms. The contrast effect lasted for 15 to 60 seconds. The intensity of myocardial opacification was not significantly influenced by the amount of polygelin colloid solution injected, heart rate or cardiac size. The total number of contrast-enhanced segments after right and left coronary artery injections delineated the entire cross-sectional area in any given view. None of the patients developed symptoms during or immediately after the injections. One patient had transient second degree atrioventricular block after a right coronary wedge injection, one patient showed a QRS axis shift and two others had transient T wave changes. There were no aortic blood pressure changes and no significant serum enzyme (creatine kinase [CK], CK-MB fraction, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase) elevation or alterations of left ventricular function assessed echocardiographically. It is concluded that hand-agitated polygelin colloid solution is a useful and safe intracoronary contrast agent for delineating myocardial perfusion areas on two-dimensional echocardiography in humans. 相似文献
Objective: To observe the expression of human leukocytic antigen DR (HLA-DR) in primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its up-regulation by interferon (IFN). Methods: The expression of HLA-DR in 46 specimens of human HCC tissues, 4 human HCC cell lines (SMMC-7721, HCC-9204, BEL-7402 and HHCC) and a human hepatocyte cell line QZG was respectively detected by immunohistochemical ABC staining and flow cytometry. The expression of HLA-DR in the 5 cell lines was detected by ELISA before and after the cells were treated with IFN-γ or IFN-α. Results:Eighteen out of 46 HCC tissues (39.1%) expressed HLA-DR, whereas all the normal liver tissues immediately adjacent to HCC tissues were HLA-DR-negative. No obvious HLA-DR-positive staining was found in all the 5 cell lines. The expression of HLA-DR was up-regulated in all the 5 cell lines after IFN-γ or IFN-α treatment. The up-regulation of HI A-DR in QZG cells was less obvious than that in HCC cell lines. The effect of IFN-γ was more significant than that of IFN-α. Conclusion: HCC tissues can express HLA-DR to some extent, but HCC cell lines do not express detectable HLA-DR. IFN can up-regulate HLA-DR expression in HCC cells. 相似文献