Anesthesia care for living-related liver transplantation for infants and children with end-stage liver disease: report of our initial experience.

Study Objective: To describe our initial experience of the perioperative anesthetic care provided to pediatric recipients during living-related liver transplantation.

Design: Cohort review of the perioperative anesthetic care for living-related liver transplantation.

Setting: Tertiary referral and postgraduate teaching hospital.

Effects of a simple protocol on infective complications in intensive care unit patients undergoing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy.

In our intensive care unit we monitored infection in 228 patients who underwent percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). In the first phase of the study 128 PDTs were performed during a 33-month period and there were 41 infection complications (nosocomial pneumonia, bacteremia with sepsis, and septic shock) in the perioperative period (immediately prior to and for 5 days after PDT). A significant risk factor among patients with nosocomial pneumonia was empirical administration of inappropriate antibiotics, compared to appropriate antibiotics (34% versus 4%, p < 0.

Pediatric living-related liver transplantation in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to report our experience of the first 29 consecutive living-related liver transplants in pediatric recipients and to demonstrate the feasibility of living-related liver transplantation in the Arab World. The first living-related liver transplantation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was performed in November 1998 by Bassas et al following an appropriate period of multi-disciplinary preparation.

Methods: This study was carried out at the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the period November 1998 through to October 2001.