An Unexpected Case of Late Fatal Central Venous Catheter Sepsis: A Case Report.

 Central venous catheters (CVC) are associated with risks and complications. Complications like vessel perforation, thrombosis, infection with significant morbidity and mortality, knotting, and ventricular perforation have been described. Another less-frequent complication is retained CVC fragments.

Simulation-based trauma education for medical students: A review of literature.

Background: Medical students often do not feel prepared to manage emergency situations after graduation. They experience a lack of practical skills and show significant deficits in cognitive performance to assess and stabilize trauma patients. Most reports in the literature about simulation-based education pertain to postgraduate training.

[An ill woman with persisting globus].

We report a 56-year-old woman with a migrating foreign body in the digestive tract, eventually located at the prevertebral space. The foreign body was missed during outpatient flexible endoscopy. Most important complication is mediastinitis, clinically presenting as malaise, fever and pain between the scapulae.

Stent fracture after endoluminal repair of a carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.

Purpose: To present a case in which a covered stent fractured 7 months after implantation in the internal carotid artery (ICA).

Case Report: A 59-year-old man presented with a large traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the left ICA. Seven months after successful treatment with a covered Symbiot stent, clinical complaints recurred because the pseudoaneurysm recanalized due to fracture of the stent at its midsection.