Impending Complete Airway Obstruction from a Reinforced Orotracheal Tube: a Case Report.

Reinforced tubes are commonly used to minimize the opportunity of upper airway obstruction in patients at risk. There are a few reports of the airway obstruction resulted from kinked reinforced tubes. This report describes the obstruction of a reinforced tube in an adult patient who underwent tonsillectomy.

Case report: A pulseless radial artery in a child under anesthesia for radiotherapy.

Treatment of cancer in children often requires a combination of chemotherapy, surgery, and/or radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are not painful processes, but children undergoing these procedures must be made motionless through anesthesia or sedation. There are a few reports of complications during these procedures in relation to the procedures themselves or to the anesthesia given.

Coincidence of asthma and bronchospasm during anesthesia in tympanomastoidectomy.

High prevalence of asthma and bronchospasm was observed during induction of anesthesia in patients with chronic suppurative otitis mMedia (CSOM) who underwent tympanomastoidectomy. Although several studies have proposed association of allergic diseases with CSOM but no consensus about it has been established. Current study was designed to determine the coincidence of asthma in CSOM patients.

Mid-term results of thoracoscopic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis.

Context: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has been proposed as a less invasive technique for treatment of myasthenia gravis.

Materials And Methods: A total of 31 patients underwent a right-sided VATS to remove all anterior mediastinal fat and thymic tissue during a 4-year period in our institution. None of the patients had associated thymoma.

Laparoscopic peritoneal dialysis catheter implantation using a Tenckhoff trocar under local anesthesia with nitrous oxide gas insufflation.

Background: Laparoscopic implantation of peritoneal dialysis catheters has many advantages over conventional methods. The ability to perform laparoscopy with the patient under local anesthesia allows renal failure patients, who ordinarily might not be considered candidates for general anesthesia, an opportunity to undergo this procedure.

Methods: Using local anesthesia and nitrous oxide pneumoperitoneum, 175 catheters were implanted in long musculofascial tunnels under laparoscopic guidance to minimize the risk of catheter migration and flow dysfunction.