The Beneficial Role of Endotracheal Lidocaine in Mitigating Hemodynamic Responses During Elective Surgical Tracheostomy in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.

Background: The effectiveness of endotracheal lidocaine administration to reduce sympathetic stimulus after tracheostomy is still uncertain.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the hemodynamic responses of patients undergoing tracheostomy with and without pre-tracheostomy administration of endotracheal lidocaine.

Study Design, Setting And Sample: A prospective cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care cancer center in the United Kingdom.

Case Report: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Young Child With SARS-CoV-2 Infection: The Italian Experience.

Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in pediatric patients is usually characterized by fever, dry cough, and fatigue, or is asymptomatic and rarely presents with pneumonia. On the other hand, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) could be a neurological sequela of the prothrombotic state triggered by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) both in adults and children.

Case Report: We present a case of a 15-year-old male child who was obese and had mild neurocognitive impairment.

To What Extent Does Illicit Drug Use Predispose to Facial Injury? An Institutional Investigation for an Emergent Problem.

Study Design: There are potential substantive linkages between illicit drug use and the occurrence of injury.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence, class of illicit drugs abused, and demographics in relation to a cohort of patients who sustained facial injury.

Methods: The authors undertook a retrospective observational study of a prospectively accessioned cohort of patients who had sustained a facial injury and presented to the John Hunter Hospital (Newcastle, NSW, Australia).

Ultrastructure study of skin fibroblasts in patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS): preliminary results.

Aim Of The Study: To investigate, in vivo and in vitro, the fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition in patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). To analyze the dermis of patients with classical form of EDS (cEDS) and with hEDS, to identify qualitative and/or quantitative differences in ECM component and ultrastructural changes in collagen.

Materials And Methods: Seven subjects, aged over 18, two with cEDS and five with hEDS underwent two skin biopsy.

Retrospective analysis of postoperative interventions in mandibular fractures: a shift towards outpatient day surgery care.

The management of fractured mandibles typically involves admission and operation at the time of presentation. While this should involve only a short stay in hospital these patients are surgically stable, and so priority is often given to more urgent cases. We retrospectively evaluated the postoperative medical requirements of patients who were operated on at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Western Australia between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2016.