Injuries due to foreign body aspirations in Georgia: A prevention perspective.

Background: Suffocation due to foreign bodies (FB) is a leading cause of death in children aged 0-3. No data from the former U.S.

[Comparison of PIM and SOFA scoring systems for mortality risk prognosis in critically ill children with sepsis].

The task of the study was the comparison of 2 scoring systems SOFA and PIM for mortality risk assessment in intensive care units. SOFA score is evaluated on admission and thereafter 72 and 120 h until ICU discharge in Children's Central Clinical Hospital from 2001 to 2005 years. Total 200 patients were studied.

[Surgical occlusion of the bronchi combined with surgery of lung abscesses or cysts in acute purulent lung diseases in children].

The authors propose a new method for surgical treatment of acute purulent diseases of lungs and pleura in children consisting in a combination of operative occlusion of the bronchus of the injured portion of the lung (transection of the bronchus with suturing its ends) with pneumoabscessotomy or cystectomy. Such operations are maximum sparing, have a sufficient sanitation effect, reduce the risk of recurrence, pyopneumothorax and shorten the period of treatment.