A New Surgical Option For Patients with Unresolved Bell's Palsy.

Purpose: This paper describes a new surgical procedure with electrical stimulation of the facial nerve for unresolved Bell's palsy and compares the facial nerve recovery with another group who underwent traditional middle cranial fossa decompression.

Recent Findings: All patients with total unilateral facial paralysis had surgery by the senior author 3 months from onset of Bell's Palsy. Surgical decompression was performed in 13 patients between 1992-2012 (Group 1).

Localized Amyloidosis of the Sphenoid Sinus: A Case Report and a Descriptive Literature Review.

Amyloidosis is the process of extracellular deposition of protein fibrils and manifests pathologically as a systemic or localized process. Localized amyloidosis of the head and neck is uncommon, and involvement of the sphenoid sinus is exceedingly rare. We describe a case of localized amyloidosis isolated from the sphenoid sinus.

Implementing an Interprofessional Difficult Airway Response Team to Identify and Manage High-Risk Airways.

Objective: To describe a multidisciplinary approach to and results from the creation of a difficult airway response team (DART) to address the management of inpatient loss of airway events.

Methods: Description of an interprofessional process to establish and sustain a DART program at a tertiary care hospital. An Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective review of the quantitative results was conducted from November 2019 through March 2021.

Idiopathic Facial Vein Aneurysm: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Venous aneurysms of the head and neck, and in particular the facial vein, are rare lesions that present as soft, compressible masses. We describe a case of an idiopathic aneurysm of the facial vein. A comprehensive literature review of this entity was conducted to better understand the disease process.