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Vivi Tellas’s Project Museums (1994-2000) invites us to examine the theatricality inherent in museums and, simultaneously, the ways in which theatre draws on functional and aesthetic elements from museums. Focusing on Federico León’s Museo Miguel Ángel Boezzio (1998), I discuss the impact of the use of autobiographical narratives onstage, taking into account observations by Hans-Thies Lehmann regarding this usage in a postdramatic context. I examine the ways in which the play crosses the boundary between real and fictional in order to establish an intimate connection with the audience and present possible modes of understanding the politicization of emotions on stage.

Background: Difficult or impossible face mask ventilation complicated with difficult tracheal intubation during anesthesia induction occurs in 0.4% of adult anesthesia cases, possibly leading to life-threatening complications. Because of such catastrophes, muscle relaxants have been recommended to be administered after confirming adequate face mask ventilation without a solid scientific validation of this principal., Methods: In this observational study, the ease of ventilation and the scores of direct laryngoscopy views before and after administration of cisatracurium were assessed in ninety young healthy adults, without anesthetic risks and without foreseen difficult intubation and who were scheduled for general elective surgeries., Results: Before muscle relaxation, 43 patients (48%) were Cormack Grade I, while the remaining 47 patients (52%) were either Cormack Grade II (28 patients, 31%) or Cormack Grade II (19 patients, 21%). Following muscle relaxation with cisatracurium, the number of patients with Cormack Grade I significantly increased from 43 patients (48%) to 65 patients (72%) (p=0.0013). Only 1 patient out of 19 patients (5%) improved his Cormack grade from Grade III to Grade I while 16 out 19 patients (84%) improved their Cormack grade from Grade III to Grade II after the use of cisatracurium. The quality of face mask ventilation did not differ with and without muscle relaxants in all patients., Conclusion: The use of cisatracurium in healthy young adults undergoing general elective surgeries with no anticipated difficult endotracheal intubation had no effect on the quality of face mask ventilation despite resulting in a quantifiable improvement in the laryngeal view., (Copyright © 2017. Publicado por Elsevier Editora Ltda.)