Wideband Tympanometry and Pressurized Otoacoustic Emissions in Children with Surgical Excision of Palatine and/or Pharyngeal Tonsils.

Palatine and pharyngeal tonsil hypertrophy may lead to dysfunction of the auditory tube due to a propensity for infection, potentially giving rise to otitis media. This is a quantitative and longitudinal study, developed from 2019 to 2021, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The studied sample comprised 15 participants aged 5 to 12 years (mean 7.

Analysis of transit time flow of the right internal thoracic artery anastomosed to the left anterior descending artery compared to the left internal thoracic artery.

Introduction: We evaluated with transit time flow the performance of the right and left thoracic arteries when used as a graft for the left anterior descending artery.

Methods: Fifty patients undergoing surgery for myocardial revascularization without cardiopulmonary bypass were divided into two groups. In group A patients received graft of right internal mammary artery to the anterior interventricular branch.

Minimally invasive redo mitral valve surgery without aortic crossclamp.

Introduction: Reoperations of the mitral valve have a higher rate of complications when compared with the first surgery. With the field of video-assisted techniques for the first surgery of mitral valve became routine, reoperation cases began to arouse interest for this less invasive procedures.

Objective: To assess the results and the technical difficulties in 10 patients undergoing minimally invasive redo mitral valve surgery.

Minimally-invasive video-assisted coronary-artery bypass grafting.

Background: In general, surgeries currently tend to be less invasive and cardiac surgery has started to follow this trend.

Objective: To evaluate the evolution of one hundred patients undergoing minimally-invasive coronary artery bypass grafting.

Methods: Access to the heart was attained through a small; 6-cm thoracotomy, located in the 4th left intercostal space, starting at the nipple.

[Iatrogenic events with medications at the intensive care unit: procedures and feelings expressed by nurses].

Iatrogenic occurrences with medication in ICU are adverse events that demand nurse's interventions. The aims of this study were:- to identify nurse's procedures and feelings in this situation;- to characterize factors related to this kind of event in ICU settings. A questionnaire was answered by 148 ICU nurses (76.