LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION FOR ADENOIDECTOMY IN OUTPATIENT SURGERY - SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE.

Adenoidectomy with or without tonsillectomy remains one of the most routinely performed surgical procedures in children. The duration of the procedure is usually less than half an hour and is done in a day surgery setting. Airway management for adenoidectomy can be especially challenging as the airway is shared between the surgeon and the anesthesiologist.

Antibiotic prescription rate for upper respiratory tract infections in general practice - a Croatian study.

Aim Acute upper respiratory tract infections are the most common indication for antibiotic prescribing in primary care. The frequency of antibiotics prescribed to patients with upper respiratory tract infections has been studied. Methods A cross-sectional survey has been conducted from October to December 2017 with participation of 17 General Practices in Croatia.

How to improve opportunistic screening by using EMRs and other data. The prevalence of undetected diabetes mellitus in target population in Croatia.

Objectives: Opportunistic screening for type 2 diabetes (T2D) has not been adopted as part of routine practice. The aim of the study was to investigate the yield of opportunistic target screening for T2D in Croatia and to evaluate the process of screening by using data from electronic medical record.

Study Design: We conducted opportunistic screening in 23 general practitioners (GPs) in a population of 13,344 patients aged 45-70 years.

Missing risks in opportunistic screening for type 2 diabetes - CroDiabGP study.

Aim To examine two methods of extracting risks for undetected type 2 diabetes (T2D): derived from electronic medical record(EMR) and family medicine (FM) assessment during pre-consultation phase. All risks were structured in three lists of patients' data using Wonca International Classification Committee(WICC). Missing data were detected in each list.

A thin line between Meniere's disease and spontaneous intracranial hypotension syndrome.

Aim: To point out the similarity of Meniere disease and spontaneous intracranial hypotension and difference of their treatment.

Methods: A case of a 54-year-old male patient with previously diagnosed Meniere's disease and newly diagnosed spontaneous intracranial hypotension syndrome is presented. Additional neuroradiological examination, Brain contrast-enhanced MRI and MR myelography were used for diagnosis.

[ACCUSTOMING TO HELICOBACTER PYLORI BACTERIUM IN FAMILY PRACTICE].

Today, antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori (HP) is a worldwide problem. The ‘test and treat’ strategy is the recommended approach in family medicine, as family medicine doctors make decisions on treating gastrointestinal conditions without endoscopic findings or HP testing. In treatment strategy, family medicine doctor has to answer several questions: whether the patient has HP infection, is it necessary to evaluate HP infection, which diagnostic test to use in evaluation of HP infection, should he proscribe antibiotic, and which antibiotic to prescribe.

Antibiotic prescription rate for upper respiratory tract infections and risks for unnecessary prescription in Croatia.

Overprescribing of antibiotics in primary care has been recognized as public health problem. We investigated visits prescription rate of antibiotics to patients with upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and unnecessary prescription for tonsillopharyngitis, in Croatia. In prospective observational study in November 2007.

Hedgehog-Patched pathway aberrations in a malignant triton tumor case study.

Transition from malignant schwannoma to malignant triton tumor is analyzed in a case report on a patient with recurring cancers and suspected familial predisposition. It is hypothesized that rhabdomyoblastic differentiation, which distinguishes triton from schwannoma, might be attributable to Hedgehog-Patched pathway malfunctioning. Loss of one Patched gene allele was found in the tissue of advanced triton, but the retained allele had no exon or promoter mutations.

Chronic patients--persons with diabetes frequent attenders in Croatian family practice.

Chronic diseases cause high frequency visits and generate the long-term frequent attenders (FAs). The connection between frequent attendance and specific morbidities in the health care systems in transitional Europe has been underestimated. We investigated whether frequent visits of chronic patients in primary care are related to characteristic of chronic disease (diabetes mellitus) and whether this is influenced by the family practice in the transitional health care.

Structure of visits persons with diabetes in Croatian family practice--analysis of reasons for encounter and treatment procedures using the ICPC-2.

The reasons for encounter and the procedures conducted during the visit persons with diabetes to family practice have been investigated. Five family practitioners located in two Croatian counties took part in this study. In this study patients with diagnoses E10-E14 according to International Classification Disease-10 (ICD-10), were involved.

Frequent attenders in family practice in Croatia: retrospective study.

Aim: To determine the number of "frequent attenders" in family practice offices in Croatia according to the number and proportion of frequent attender visits in the total number of visits, and to follow up the frequent attenders and the number of visits they made over a period of three years.

Methods: The retrospective study involved 8 family practice offices in Northern Croatia. The number of visits to family practice was determined for 4,312 patients aged over 18 years.