Cannulation via the external jugular vein--An alternative to conventional peripherally inserted central catheterisation for paediatric patients.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe a peripherally inserted central catheterisation (PICC) for paediatric patients with inaccessible access and a high risk of general anaesthesia (GA).

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study involving all paediatric inpatients who performed the PICC via an EJV approach without GA between September 2014 and September 2021 in a provincial key clinical speciality.

Results: A total of 290 EJV line placement attempts were performed, and 29 were excluded due to missing placement results, resulting in a sample size of 261.

[Clinical analysis of 286 cases of abdominal trauma with gastrointestinal tract laceration].

Objective: To improve the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal injury.

Methods: The clinical data of 286 patients with gastrointestinal tract laceration admitted between 2004 and 2009 to our hospital was analyzed.

Results: The duration after trauma was 15 min to 2 days.

[Traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of mycoplasmal pneumonia in children and the serum cytokine changes].

Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine (WM) treatments on mycoplasmal pneumonia in children and the changes in the serum cytokines.

Methods: Ninety children with mycoplasmal pneumonia were randomly divided into the treatment group and the control group. TCM was given orally and azithromycin at the daily dose of 10 mg/kg was administered intravenously in the treatment group.

[Application of intraoperative colon irrigation in primary resection and anastomosis of left colorectal cancer with intestinal obstruction].

Objective: To study the application of intraoperative irrigation of the colon in primary resection and anastomosis of left colorectal cancer with intestinal obstruction.

Methods: The clinical data were analyzed in 58 patients with left colon rectal cancer and intestinal obstruction undergoing intraoperative irrigation of the colon for primary anastomosis, and the results were compared with 58 patients receiving conventional primary tumor resection.

Results: The mean intraoperative blood loss or postoperative hospital stay was comparable between the two groups, but the patients undergoing colon irrigation had significantly delays in the recovery of bowel movement.

[Immunohistochemical study of tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression in the lungs and small intestines in hyperthermia-LPS co-stressed rats].

Objective: To investigate the effects of co-exposure to hyperthermia and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) expression in the lungs and small intestines of rats.

Methods: Male pathogen-free Wistar rats were randomly assigned into saline-injected normothermic control (C), saline heat exposure (H), LPS normothermic control (L), and LPS plus heat exposure (HL) groups. The rats in H and HL groups were exposed in a chamber at an ambient dry bulb temperature (Tdb) of 35.

[Changes of the sodium channel in alveolar type II cells in pulmonary water transport in rats with oleic acid-induced acute lung injury].

Objective: To determine the capability of alveolar fluid clearance and the changes of sodium channel in alveolar type II cells (ATII) in oleic acid-induced acute lung injury.

Methods: Forty four male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomized into a control group and an acute lung injury (ALI) group, with 22 rats in each group. The ALI model was established by oleic acid.

[Epithelial sodium channel subunit mRNA expression in acutely isolated rat alveolar type II cells].

Objective: To investigate the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) subunit mRNA expression in acutely isolated rat alveolar type II (ATII) cells.

Methods: Acutely isolated ATII cells from 20 SD rats were purified and ENaC alpha, beta, gamma-subunit mRNA levels were determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).

Results: mRNA expressions of all the subunits were detected in the ATII cells, and ENaC alpha-subunit mRNA showed significantly higher expression than beta- and gamma-subunit mRNAs, and the expressions of the latter two mRNAs were comparable.