Incidence of peri-operative paediatric cardiac arrest and the influence of a specialised paediatric anaesthesia team: Retrospective cohort study.

Background: Peri-operative critical events are still a major problem in paediatric anaesthesia care. Access to more experienced healthcare teams might reduce the adverse event rate and improve outcomes.

Objective: The current study analysed incidences of peri-operative paediatric cardiac arrest before and after implementation of a specialised paediatric anaesthesia team and training programme.

Incidence and risk factors of anaesthesia-related perioperative cardiac arrest: A 6-year observational study from a tertiary care university hospital.

Background: In recent decades, the incidences of anaesthesia-related perioperative mortality and adverse outcomes have decreased drastically. However, to date, data on perioperative cardiac arrest and risk factors of perioperative cardiac arrest from European countries are scarce.

Objectives: To determine the incidences of perioperative cardiac arrest and rates of anaesthesia-related and anaesthesia-contributory cardiac arrest.

Extraskeletal osteosarcoma has a favourable prognosis when treated like conventional osteosarcoma.

Purpose: The aims of this analysis were to investigate the clinical features of extraskeletal osteosarcoma (ESOS) and examine the outcome after multi-modal therapy.

Methods: The co-operative osteosarcoma study-group database was searched for patients with extraskeletal osteosarcoma. Eligible patients were included in a retrospective analysis of patient, tumour and treatment related variables and outcome.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Klinefelter syndrome in children: two cases and review of the literature.

The occurrence of mediastinal germ cell tumor and breast cancer have been repeatedly reported in men with Klinefelter syndrome (KS) but this association is debated controversially for patients with hematologic malignancies. The authors describe 2 tall adolescents in whom diagnostic workup for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) revealed 47,XXY and 47,XXY/48,XXXYkaryotype, respectively. Among 4195 registered male patients in the ALL-BFM study group since 1983, no further patients with ALL and KS were identified.

Delaying surgery with chemotherapy for osteosarcoma of the extremities.

Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary cancer of bone. When treated by surgery alone, it is almost invariably followed by metastatic dissemination and death. This dismal prognosis can be improved dramatically by including chemotherapy in an interdisciplinary regimen.