Outcomes of mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 associated respiratory failure.

Purpose: The outcomes of patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 remain poorly defined. We sought to determine clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 managed with invasive mechanical ventilation in an appropriately resourced US health care system.

Methods: Outcomes of COVID-19 infected patients requiring mechanical ventilation treated within the Inova Health System between March 5, 2020 and April 26, 2020 were evaluated through an electronic medical record review.

The effect of a family support intervention on physician, nurse, and family perceptions of care in the surgical, neurological, and medical intensive care units.

Many patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) have predictable medical and discharge outcomes, but some trajectories are marked with medical uncertainty. Stressed family-surrogates receive multiple medical updates from a variety of personnel. These circumstances can lead to confusion, which may result in conflicts and dissatisfaction with care.

Radiotherapy with or without surgery for maxillary sinus squamous cell carcinoma: should the clinical N0 neck be treated?

Objectives: Maxillary sinus squamous cell carcinoma is commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage and treated using radiotherapy, with or without surgical resection.

Methods: Fifty-four patients with maxillary sinus squamous cell carcinoma were treated from 1969 to 2006, using radiotherapy, with or without surgical resection. Fifty-two (96%) patients had American Joint Committee on Cancer stages III to IV disease, and 45 (83%) patients had N0 neck disease.

Ewing tumors of the head and neck.

Purpose: Retrospective review describing the 40-year University of Florida experience treating Ewing tumors of the head-and-neck region with a summary of the pertinent literature.

Patients And Methods: Nine patients were diagnosed and treated for Ewing sarcoma of the head and neck at our institution between 1965 and 2007. Primary sites included: mandible (3 patients), calvarium (2 patients), paranasal sinus (2 patients), oral cavity (1 patient), and the extraosseous soft tissue of the neck (1 patient).

Radiotherapy for cutaneous squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the head and neck.

Objectives/hypothesis: To discuss the role of radiotherapy (RT) in the treatment of cutaneous squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the head and neck.

Methods: Review of the pertinent literature.

Results: The likelihood of cure with a good cosmetic outcome is high for patients with early-stage cancers treated with definitive RT.