Publications by authors named "H D Kuntz"
Adverse Events in Patients Aged 90 Days or Younger Receiving Ketamine in the Emergency Department.
Pediatr Emerg Care
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- This study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of ketamine in children aged 90 days or younger in an emergency department setting.
- A retrospective review over 8 years included 14 eligible patients, with various routes of ketamine administration leading to different average doses.
- Only one patient experienced an adverse event (7.1% incidence), specifically laryngospasm during intubation, indicating that the adverse event rate is comparable to broader pediatric data.
Given recent advances in cancer therapeutics, there is a growing population of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors navigating the physical and psychological consequences of cancer treatment. Fertility preservation (FP) conversations are of increasing importance for these survivors. Decision regret (DR) is a measure of distress or remorse following a health care decision, and it is a useful tool to evaluate the impact of a treatment on quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease encountered in pediatrics with surgical repair being the definitive treatment. Long-term survival after surgical repair has improved; however, reported mortality rates in untreated TOF are significant. Associated complications include neurological sequelae such as brain abscess and stroke.
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- Dysphonia, or trouble speaking clearly, is common in people with asthma and might be caused by inhaled medications, but researchers think it might actually be due to how the voice box works instead.
- In a study, they looked at 68 women with asthma who used inhaled corticosteroids and compared them to 53 women without asthma. They found that a lot more asthma patients had voice problems (66.2%) compared to the control group (11.3%).
- The researchers found that the voice problems in asthma patients weren't linked to throat infections or serious throat damage, but showed that asthma patients had more difficulty with how their voice box works when talking than the healthy women did.
Introduction: Chest trauma is a major contributor to injury morbidity and mortality, and understanding trends is a crucial part of addressing this burden in low- and middle-income countries. This study reports the characteristics and emergency department (ED) management of chest trauma patients presenting to Rwanda's national teaching hospital in Kigali.
Methods: This descriptive analysis included a convenience sample of patients presenting to a single tertiary hospital ED with chest trauma from June to December 2017.