Development and validation of a risk score to predict the probability of postoperative vomiting in pediatric patients: the VPOP score.

Background: Few data are available in the literature on risk factors for postoperative vomiting (POV) in children.

Objective: The aim of the study was to establish independent risk factors for POV and to construct a pediatric specific risk score to predict POV in children.

Methods: Characteristics of 2392 children operated under general anesthesia were recorded.

Supraclavicular ultrasound-guided catheterization of the subclavian vein in pediatric and neonatal ICUs: a feasibility study.

Objectives: To assess the feasibility of ultrasound-guided supraclavicular catheterization of the subclavian vein in pediatric and neonatal ICU.

Design: Retrospective cohort.

Setting: Ten-bed pediatric medicosurgical ICU and 15-bed neonatal ICU.

[Intraoperative ventilatory obstruction by twisting of a reusable coiled expiratory breathing tube].

A case of intraoperative subtotal obstruction of a reusable coiled expiratory breathing tube is reported. Partial occlusion by twisting was made possible by detachment of the coil from the external face of the tube after multiple reprocessings with high drying temperatures. A technique for tube checking before reuse is described.

[Surgical management of community-acquired peritonitis in children. Analysis of a survey].

The purpose of this work was to determine current practices of pediatric surgeons in the management of community peritonitis, excepting antibiotic use and resuscitation car. A questionnaire was sent to 63 French pediatric surgeons in France. Forty-six answers concerning appendicular peritonitis were analyzed.

[Video-assisted thoracic surgery of hydatid cysts of the lung in children].

10 children between 3 and 9 years old, have been operated on for an echinococcosis cyst of the lung, by a thoracoscopic procedure. It was a vomited cyst in 6 cases, a pyopneumocyst in 1 case, and a jung noncomplicated and univesicular cyst in 3 cases. The surgical procedure is described.