Capnography is a medical tool that measures concentration or partial pressure of excised or current carbon dioxide. During anesthesia and intensive care, it is mostly used to monitor CO2 in ...

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Oesophageal cancer is a malignancy of the oesophagus or food pipe . It is a rare malignancy. Nearly all oesophageal cancer are squamous cell carcinomas (cancer arising from the flat cells of ...

Recent study investigates the potential of preoperative airway ultrasonography (USG) measurements to predict difficult intubation. Specifically, it focuses on hyomental distances measured in neutral ...

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SAN DIEGO — Rifaximin plus N-acetylcysteine outperformed rifaximin alone among patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, improving bloating, diarrhea and pain, according to ...

Hypercapnia describes high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the blood above 45 mm Hg. It can happen when there is an overproduction of CO2 or an inability to efficiently clear it from the body.