Does sugammadex decrease the severity of agitation and complications in pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy?

Objectives: To evaluate  the effectiveness of sugammadex in reducing or eliminating postoperative agitation levels, early respiratory complications and nausea/vomiting in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy.

Methods: A total of 70 patients (age range: 5-13 years) who underwent an adenotonsillectomy  in the Otolaryngology Clinic, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey between May 2015 and September 2017 were included in the study. The patients were randomized into a sugammadex group (Group S) and a neostigmine + atropine (Group N); each group contained 35 patients.

Six-Month Results of Cervical Intradiscal Oxygen-Ozone Mixture Therapy on Patients with Neck Pain: Preliminary Findings.

Background: Numerous techniques have been developed for the treatment of disc herniation. Oxygen-ozone (O-O) mixture therapy is a minimally invasive percutaneous treatment for disc herniation.

Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the 6-month efficacy and safety of O-O mixture therapy in patients with cervical disc herniation (CDH) and chronic neck pain.

Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Pneumoencephaly Developing after Epidural Oxygen-ozone Mixture Therapy.

Pain treatment can comprise a combination of pharmacological, interventional, surgical, physical, psycological methods. Interventional procedures, particularly minimally invasive percutaneous therapies, have been widely used in recent years. Corticosteroid, hyperbaric saline or oxygen-ozone therapy is a safe procedure for patients in whom pain cannot be relieved by epidural adhesiolysis or other treatments.

Long-term Clinical Effects of DiscoGel for Cervical Disc Herniation.

Background: Radiopaque gelified ethanol (RGE; DiscoGel, Gelscom SAS, France) is used as a chemonucleolysis substance in treating intradiscal herniation, showing good results without complications. It has also been used in cervical disc herniations (CDHs), demonstrating the potential efficacy of this substance.

Objective: The aim of the study is to investigate the long-term effectiveness and safety of DiscoGel in patients with CDH and chronic neck pain.

Cervical vertebroplasty under sedoanalgesia using combined ultrasonography and fluoroscopy guidance: a novel technique.

Purpose: The aim of this report was to describe a case using combined USG and fluoroscopy for cervical VP via a percutaneous route under sedoanalgesia.

Methods: A 70-year-old male patient had severe neck pain for 6 weeks because of metastatic mass lesions in C6. After the decision to VP, the patient was placed on the operating table and 2 mg midazolam and 75 µg fentanyl were administered for conscious sedation.

Does Sugammadex Administration Affect Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective, Double-Blind, Randomized Study.

Background: The aim of this study is to assess the effect of sugammadex on postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Methods: Eighty patients who were scheduled for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery were enrolled in this prospective study. Patients were randomly assigned to neostigmine (group N) or sugammadex (group S) for neuromuscular antagonism at the end of anesthesia.

The correlation between red blood cell distribution width levels with the severity of obstructive sleep apnea and carotid intima media thickness.

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized by repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) increases platelet activation and has been reported as an independent predictor of adverse outcomes in the general population and is believed to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We evaluated RDW, mean platelet volume (MPV), and platelet distribution width (PDW) as a severity index in OSAS and the relationship between carotid intima media thickness and pulmonary hypertension.

The rate of device-associated nosocomial infections in a medical surgical intensive care unit of a training and research hospital in Turkey: one-year outcomes.

In the present study, we aimed to assess the rate and effect of device-associated nosocomial infections (DANIs), as well as the rate of antibiotic resistance, in the medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) of a research and training hospital in Turkey, and to compare our results with those reported by the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system and International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC). A total of 509 patients were followed up within a 1-year period from 1 November 2007 to 1 November 2008. The total patient days were 4,087, the number of DANIs was 181.