Airway ultrasound for the confirmation of endotracheal tube placement in cadavers by military flight medic trainees - A pilot study.

Objective: Confirming correct endotracheal tube (ETT) placement is a key component of successful airway management. Ultrasound (US) as a tool for the confirmation of ETT placement has been investigated in the hospital setting but not in the pre-hospital setting. We hypothesized that after a short educational session, military flight medic trainees would be able to accurately identify ETT placement in a cadaver model.

[The role of classical surgery in treatment of acute abdomen in oncological patients].

Acute abdomen in patients with malignity may present itself as a first sign, or might manifest itself during therapy of diagnosed disease. Clinical picture might be modified by age of patients, comorbidity, and side effects of multimodal therapy. Authors analyze their group of patients, admitted to their department with malignant disease.

[The "pancreatic unit" in the treatment of severe necrotizing pancreatitis].

The course of acute pancreatitis varies from mild, fortuitous forms to grave, life threatening disease. Approximately 80-90% of all forms are mild with low morbidity and mortality. The rest consist of severe, sometimes even fatal forms with present necrosis.

Injuries of the intraabdominal organs at patients with polytrauma.

The authors analyse group of 77 patients with several injuries of the intraabdominal organs by polytrauma and intraabdominal continuing bleeding. The injuries were classified in compliance with the classification of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), 1994. At hemodynamically stable patients, the authors accept selective non-operative forms of treatment, however are aware of the risk of delaying the therapy of severe polytrauma.