AIRWAY MANAGEMENT WITH RIGID BRONCHOSCOPE IN ADULT PATIENT DURING CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY: A CASE REPORT.

SCIWOCTET is a cervical spine injury (CSI) with objective signs of myelopathy, due to trauma, without evidence of ligament injury or bone fractures on x-ray and computed tomography (CT) images. It is rare, found in about 3% of patients with CSI. Perioperative manipulation of these patients may cause secondary spinal cord injury.

IS CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION OUTCOME IN PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE RELATED TO AIRWAY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE?

According to current European Resuscitation Council guidelines, priorities in advanced life support in adult are chest compression with minimal interruption and early defibrillation. Endotracheal intubation is still considered the gold standard in airway management, but guidelines suggest that securing the airway be incremental, ranging from basic techniques to more complex ones. Doctors who work in pre-hospital emergency medicine teams (EMT) in Croatia usually lack sufficient education and expertise.

Who is the patient? Disclosure of information and consent in anesthesia and intensive care (informed consent).

Physicians have always strived to uphold all the ethical postulates of the medical profession in all aspects of the practice, however with the vast advances in science and technology, numerous ethical dilemmas regarding all aspects of life and ultimately death have emerged. Medical decisions however, are no longer in the sole jurisdiction of traditional Hippocratic medicine but are now deliberated and delivered by the patient and they are comprised of a number of additional determining aspects such as psychological, social, legal, religious, esthetic, administrative etc., which all together represent the complete best interest of the patient.

Perioperative management with glucose solution and insulin.

The objective of this study was to analyze how preoperative glucose treatment influences the blood glucose level as a measured exponent of surgical stress and to establish the best postoperative replacement considering glucose solutions and insulin. This prospective clinical trial involved 208 non-diabetic patients with normal glucose tolerance, who underwent major surgical procedures and needed 24 hours ICU monitoring postoperatively. Patients were randomly given 5% glucose solution (1000 mL) one day before surgery or after overnight fasting.