[The COVID-19 emergency management in Nephrology: a cross-sectional survey on the procedures management to deal with the pandemic].

From mid-March 2020, the pandemic caused by COVID 19 has placed health facilities in front of the need to implement a rapid and profound reorganization. However, many hospitals have not had time to organize a rapid and effective response, both for the speed of spread of the virus, and for the lack of previous experience with a pandemic of this magnitude. With the aim of assessing the knowledge and adoption of the procedures and recommendations disseminated by hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the dialysis and hemodialysis services of Italian centers, a cross-sectional survey was designed by the Society of Nurses in Nephrology (SIAN).

Describing nurses' awareness of biological risk in delivering care for renal-dialysis patients: an Italian pilot survey.

Background And Aim Of Work: Despite national descriptions of awareness, knowledge, and perceptions about the exposure to the biological risk among nurses employed in renal-dialysis care are pivotal to increase work safety, there is a paucity of data on these descriptions in the Italian context. This study aimed at describing Italian nurses' awareness and knowledge about biological risk in delivering care for renal-dialysis patients, and their experiences of biological accidents.

Methods: A pilot survey using cross-sectional data collection and convenience sampling procedure.

[SARS-CoV-2: recommendations on nursing care for dialyzed and transplanted patient].

Coronavirus disease 2019 is an infectious respiratory syndrome caused by the virus called SARS-CoV-2, belonging to the family of coronaviruses. The first ever cases were detected during the 2019-2020 pandemic. Coronaviruses can cause a common cold or more serious diseases such as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndromes (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Effectiveness of selective neck dissection in head and neck cancer: the experience of two Italian centers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oncologic outcomes after a selective neck dissection (SND), both in elective and therapeutic settings, with particular regard to regional recurrence rate.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 827 patients with head and neck primary tumors submitted to SND from 1999 to 2011 in two large hospital centers of northern Italy.

Results: A total of 40 neck recurrences were found in the whole series, with the same incidence after primary or salvage surgery (4.

Extra-capsular dissection in benign parotid tumors.

Unlabelled: The type of surgery for benign parotid tumors is still lacking of general consensus: this retrospective study, from 1964 to 2004 with a minimum follow-up of 7 years, is carried out with the aim to evaluate the results of parotidectomy and extracapsular dissection (ECD).

Patients And Methods: Three hundred forty-nine pts were operated for pleomorphic adenoma (219) or cystadenolymphoma (165). ECD was performed in 332 pts and parotidectomy in 52.

Gamma probe accuracy in detecting the sentinel lymph node in clinically N0 squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

The sentinel node, which is not always located at the first-echelon nodal area close to the primary tumor, is the initial recipient of possible metastasis. In order to verify the usefulness of the sentinel lymph node technique in the staging of head and neck cancers, we studied 31 untreated patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the upper airways by injecting them around the primary tumor with technetium 99m albumin microcolloid (99mTc) and submitting them to selective neck dissection with en bloc tumor removal. The nodes were examined after gamma-probe identification of the sentinel node(s).