Management of otogene extracranial complications in children and adolescents: report of 35 cases over 10 years.

Objective: Medical management of exocranial otogenic complications represents a challenge for a medical system of a country in general, especially for ENT services. The goal of this study is to find some answers on demographic data, clinical symptoms and signs, diagnostics, and especially therapy for these complications in young patients.

Method: The study is retrospective, performed in the ENT clinic of the University Clinical Center of Kosova in Prishtina and covers 10 years (from 01.

Smoking and COVID-19 in ICU Patients.

Background: Case studies revealed an astonishingly low number of current among patients suffering from symptomatic COVID-19 compared to general population, leading to the conclusion that smoking/nicotine uptake might have a preventive effect.

Objective: This study aims to show the relation between smoking habits, present and past, and severity and outcome in COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the ICU of the University Hospital in Pristina.

Methods: This paper reports the results of possible association between smoking habits and severity and outcome of COVID-19.

Use of antibiotics in COVID-19 ICU patients.

Introduction: The role of antibiotics in the treatment in COVID-19 cases has not yet been adequately defined, and no criteria have been established for antibiotic treatment, type and duration.

Methodology: This paper reports the results of an observational study on the extent of antibiotic use in 52 randomly selected patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the University Hospital in Pristina, Kosovo with severe forms of COVID-19.

Results: Antibiotics were prescribed in all the cases (52; 100%).

Acute Mastoiditis Complicated with Concomitant Bezold's Abscess and Lateral Sinus Thrombosis.

Bezold's abscess is a very rare extracranial complication of acute mastoiditis. Lateral sinus thrombosis is another intracranial complication of acute mastoiditis that can occur, but there are only few reports of concomitant ispilateral Bezold's abscess and lateral sinus thrombosis with favorable outcome. We diagnosed and treated successfully a 14-year-old girl suffering from acute mastoiditis complicated with Bezold's abscess and lateral sinus thrombosis.

Survey about the Extubation Practice among Anaesthesiologists in Kosovo.

Background: Tracheal extubations may be performed before or after awakening from anaesthesia. The advantage of extubation during anaesthesia may avoid all the unpleasant effects of fully awake extubation such as severe hypertension and tachycardia, malignant dysrhythmias, myocardial ischemia laryngospasm, and cough induced high intraocular and intracranial pressure.

Aim: To show the current practice of performing extubations in Kosovo, as well as the advantage and disadvantage in performing this procedure in an awake patient or inpatient in light anaesthesia.