Advertised sustainability practices among suppliers to a university hospital operating room.

The present study aimed to identify firms supplying products to our university operating room (OR) that promote sustainable manufacturing methods. Results show that 72% of our suppliers, or 152 of 211 companies, do not promote sustainability practices in a salient manner. Multi-national firms document sustainability methods significantly more than U.

Laryngeal mask airway (LMA) artefact resulting in MRI misdiagnosis.

We report a 7-year-old child who underwent brain MRI for a known seizure disorder. The technique used for general anesthesia included inhalation induction followed by placement of a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) for airway maintenance. Because the reviewing radiologist was unfamiliar with the use of an LMA during anesthesia, and because the attending anesthesiologist did not communicate his technique to the radiologist, an MRI misdiagnosis was reported because of artefact created by the in situ LMA.

Distraction with a hand-held video game reduces pediatric preoperative anxiety.

Background: Video games have received widespread application in health care for distraction and behavior modification therapy. Studies on the effect of cognitive distraction during the preoperative period are lacking. We evaluated the efficacy of an interactive distraction, a hand-held video game (VG) in reducing preoperative anxiety in children.

Phospholipid abnormalities in children with Barth syndrome.

Objectives: We sought to identify characteristic lipid abnormalities in patients with Barth syndrome (BTHS) and to correlate the lipid profile to phenotype and genotype.

Background: Barth syndrome typically includes cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, neutropenia, growth retardation, and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, and it is commonly associated with mutations in the tafazzin (TAZ) gene, whose products are homologous to phospholipid acyltransferases. However, clinical features of BTHS have also been found in patients with normal TAZ gene.

Infants undergoing pyloromyotomy are not at risk for postoperative apnea. Staff of Sutter Community Hospitals Sleep Disorders Center.

Thirty term infants undergoing general anesthesia and pyloromyotomy had pre- and postoperative sleep studies to determine whether these infants were at risk for postoperative apnea. Sleep studies showed an improved respiratory disturbance index (RDI) after surgery. Postoperatively, apnea indices were lower and lowest oxygen saturation values were increased compared to the infants' preoperative status.