Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Surgical Patients.

Objective: To determine the incidence of systemic inflammatory response of the organism in surgical patients and its impact on the outcome of treatment.

Methods: A prospective study was conducted on 60 patients undergoing abdominal surgical procedures, between January 2014 and December 2015 in the Surgery Clinic at the University Clinical Center Tuzla. Two groups of thirty were formed by the method of consecutive sampling.

The Discrepancy Between Subjective and Objective Findings After Septoplasty.

Introduction: Surgical and medical treatments of nasal obstruction are a common parts of otolaryngologist practice. The definitive treatment of deviated nasal septum is septoplasty.

Aim: In this study was to evaluate the values of subjective parameters, and active anterior rhinomanometry parameters prior and three months after the septoplasty.

Impact of Comorbidity on Early Outcome of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Caused by Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture.

Background: One of the complications aneurysms subarachnoid hemorrhage is the development of vasospasm, which is the leading cause of disability and death from ruptured cerebral aneurysm.

Aim: To evaluate the significance of previous comorbidities on early outcome of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by rupture of a cerebral aneurysm in the prevention of vasospasm.

Patients And Methods: The study had prospective character in which included 50 patients, whose diagnosed with SAH caused by the rupture of a brain aneurysm in the period from 2011to 2013.

Foreign body impaction in esophagus: experiences at Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic in Tuzla, 2003-2013.

Objectives: This study aims to report our experience in the management of foreign body (FB) impaction in esophagus in the Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-one patients (44 males, 27 females; mean age 32.99±28.

Complications Related to Insertion and Use of Central Venous Catheters (CVC).

Introduction: Central Venous Catheters (CVC) are essential in everyday medical practice, especially in treating patients in intensive care units (ICU). The application of these catheters is accompanied with the risk of complications, such as the complications caused during the CVC insertion, infections at the location of the insertion, and complications during the use of the catheter, sepsis and other metastatic infections.

Patients And Methods: This study is a retrospective-prospective and it was implemented in the period 1(st) January 2011- 31(st) December 2012.

Assessment of depth of anesthesia: PRST score versus bispectral index.

Unlabelled: Assessment of depth of anesthesia is the basis in anesthesiologists work because the occurrence of awareness during general anesthesia is important due to stress, which is caused in the patient at that moment, and due to complications that may arise later. There are subjective and objective methods used to estimate the depth of anesthesia. The aim of this study was to assess the depth of anesthesia based on clinical parameters and on the basis bispectral index, and determine the part of bispectral monitoring in support to clinical assessment.

APACHE II scoring system is superior in the prediction of the outcome in critically ill patients with perforative peritonitis.

Background: There are several scoring systems used in the prediction of outcome in critically ill patients. This study was undertaken to evaluate APACHE II, SAPS I, Sepsis score, MOF, TISS-28 and MPI scoring systems in prediction of the outcome in patients with perforative peritonitis.

Patients And Methods: The prospective study of 145 patients of both sexes with perforative peritonitis was performed.

Frequency of the central venous catheter colonization in surgical intensive care unit.

Unlabelled: The use of central venous catheters (CVC) carries a risk from local and systemic infectious complications, with prevalence of 6% in patients in Intensive care unit. Microorganisms colonizing the CVC usually originate from patient's or staff member's skin, but the source can also be a contaminated infusion solution or hematogenous dissemination from a distant focus. The infective agents often show increased resistance to antibiotics, which is an additional therapeutic problem.