Anesth Pain Med
June 2022
Introduction: The incidence of tracheal stenosis is progressively increasing. A risk factor for developing this clinical condition is a history of prolonged endotracheal intubation. A transnasal humidified rapid insufflation ventilatory exchange, known as THRIVE, has gained importance in tracheal resection surgeries.
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September 2021
Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and the frequency of maternal, fetal and neonatal complications in accordance with the neuraxial anesthesia (NA) technique in women with twin-totwin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) treated with laser photocoagulation.
Materials And Methods: Descriptive retrospective cohort study of pregnant patients with TTTS treated with laser photocoagulation under NA at Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali (Colombia), between 2013-2017. Patients with Quintero stage V TTTS were excluded.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with hamstring tendons has gained popularity in the past and is the most used type of graft in several national registries. It usually involves the harvest of both gracilis and semitendinosus tendons from the ipsilateral knee. More recently, the use of only 1 of the tendons (semitendinosus) in a tripled or quadrupled arrangement has been described, especially in an all-inside type of reconstruction.
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