Laryngeal Dysfunction and Acute Organophosphorus Poisoning.

Goonasekera C, Karalliedde L. Laryngeal Dysfunction and Acute Organophosphorus Poisoning. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(2):155-156.

When to abandon single-lung anesthesia during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in infants and young children: A case-based review.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in infants and young children increasingly require one-lung anesthesia. However, the maintenance of norms of gas exchange is difficult during one-lung anesthesia in some infants. A combination of factors including added dead space of HME and the circle Y piece, intrathoracic inflation of CO and its pressure, airway resistance and bilateral lung disease contribute.

Enhancing the utility of virtual surgical pre-assessment.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual pre-assessment was introduced for all elective and semi-urgent surgeries to maintain surgical clinical services in the authors' Trust. This mainly involved telephone pre-assessments, although occasionally video technology was used. This had to be managed and maintained at a distance with little or no training or established method.

Exploring the utility of neuro-monitoring in neurosurgery: The users' perspective in a single center.

Background: The purpose of intraoperative neuro-monitoring (IONM) is to minimize injury to eloquent neural structures and optimize tumor resection.

Method: We explored the utility of IONM using a qualitative approach in a single center. Eight experienced users of its use in spinal and cranial surgery in adults and children were the informants.

Morbidity after thoracoscopic resection of congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAM): single center experience over a decade.

Purpose: Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) resection of CPAM in children is an established, albeit controversial strategy for its management. We report a 10-year single center experience.

Methods: All children underwent VATS (2008-2017) and their current status was reviewed.