A 7-Step Guide to High-Definition Liposuction.

Background: High-Definition (HD) Liposuction refers to the most advanced body contouring technique, offering an athletic and healthy body appearance. The latest available devices, the criteria of proper selection, and an expert surgeon's tips are highlighted in a 7-step guide approach.

Methods: A retrospective study of prospectively maintained database was conducted from 2015 to 2020.

Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy in a severely burned patient with upper airway obstruction and circulatory failure.

Airway inaccessibility is one of the most dreaded situations in emergency medicine. Surgical tracheostomy is not indicated in emergency situations because it takes a long time and can result in death if respiratory support cannot be provided during the procedure. Emergency percutaneous tracheostomy (PCT) was widely regarded as absolutely counterindicated.

Stevens-johnson syndrome: a case report.

The Stevens-Johnson syndrome has the appearance of a partial-thickness burn that may lead to a 100% loss of epidermis, requiring the same resuscitation as a severe burn. A 38-yr-old male patient was admitted to the neurosurgery department of the Evangelismos General Hospital in Athens, where immediately after administration of an antiepileptic drug he developed sloughing of total epidermis, high fever, and the clinical picture of a severe burn patient. He was treated as a burn patient with massive cutaneous injuries and the concomitant systemic effects.

Pain response and pain control in burn patients.

Burn injury is totally correlated to pain, which depends on burn depth and extent, cause, age and the patient's general condition, and on the local therapy of the burn wound. In hospitalized patients adjectival and numerical scales have been used to measure pain. The management of pain is challenging to the therapist and extremely important for the patient.