[The Pierre Robin sequence from an anesthesiologic perspective : Presentation of the procedure based on a retrospective analysis at a university hospital].

Introduction: As part of surgical interventions in pediatric patients, children with craniofacial malformations and syndromes are presented in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery, anesthesia and also in all other clinical disciplines. In particular, the Pierre Robin sequence in the clinical context leads to a situation albeit a rare one, which should be given high attention in preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care.

Material And Methods: In a retrospective analysis from 1993 to 2020 in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital Halle (Saale), a total of 54 patients were identified with syndromic changes and a need for surgical treatment.

Closure of cleft lips with Pfeifer's wave line technique does not inhibit upper lip growth: A retrospective study.

The aim of this study is to describe the growth of the upper lip after reconstruction with a Pfeifer wave-line incision in patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate (CL/P) in the long term. This was a longitudinal, monocentric, retrospective study. Metric standardized lip length measurements were taken annually from the age of 6 months to the age of 16 years.

[Effects of an In-House Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative on Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Childhood and Adolescence].

Background:  Pediatric community-acquired pneumonia (pCAP) often leads to prescription of antibiotics and hospital admission of children. Unfortunately, adherence to diagnosis and treatment guidelines is inconsistent, and misuse of antibiotics may occur. Antimicrobial stewardship interventions, which were started in many hospitals during the last decade, can optimize management of pCAP without negative patient outcomes.

Psychosocial and socioeconomically aspects of mothers having a child with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P): a pilot-study during the first year of life.

Background: The emotional impact on parents at the birth of their new-born with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) can be traumatic for parents, especially mothers, and affect the sensitive early parent-child relationship. Unlike many other congenital malformations facial deformities are visible to all. The uncommon facial appearance creates feelings and reactions in the mother, families and other people.

Prophylactic nimodipine treatment improves hearing outcome after vestibular schwannoma surgery in men: a subgroup analysis of a randomized multicenter phase III trial.

A 2016 published randomized multicenter phase III trial of prophylactic nimodipine treatment in vestibular schwannoma surgery showed only a tendency for higher hearing preservation rates in the treatment group. Gender was not included in statistical analysis at that time. A retrospective analysis of the trial considering gender, preoperative hearing, and nimodipine treatment was performed.