Tracheotomy Outcomes in 64 Ventilated COVID-19 Patients at a High-Volume Center in Bronx, NY.

Objectives/hypothesis: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. Few studies have reported COVID-19 specific tracheotomy outcomes, and the optimal timing and patient selection criteria for tracheotomy remains undetermined. We delineate our outcomes for tracheotomies performed on COVID-19 patients during the peak of the pandemic at a major epicenter in the United States.

Tracheotomy in a High-Volume Center During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Surgeon's Risk.

Objective: Performing tracheotomy in patients with COVID-19 carries a risk of transmission to the surgical team due to potential viral particle aerosolization. Few studies have reported transmission rates to tracheotomy surgeons. We describe our safety practices and the transmission rate to our surgical team after performing tracheotomy on patients with COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic at a US epicenter.

Perioperative Management of Total Laryngectomy Patients: A Survey of American Head and Neck Society Surgeons.

Objectives: Standards of care for total laryngectomy (TL) patients in the postoperative period have not been established. Perioperative care remains highly variable and perhaps primarily anecdotally based. The aim of this study was to survey members of the American Head and Neck Society to capture management practices in the perioperative care of TL patients.

Measurement of resident fatigue using rapid number naming.

Objective: Sleep deprivation has a negative effect on neurocognitive performance. The King-Devick test (KDT), which tests speed and accuracy of number-reading, requires integrity of saccades, visual processing, and cognition. This study investigated effects of sleep deprivation in on-call residents using KDT.

Factors predictive of the development of surgical site infection in thyroidectomy - An analysis of NSQIP database.

Background: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is an uncommon but serious complication of thyroidectomy when encountered.

Study Design: NSQIP Participant Use File (PUF) from 2012 to 2015 were queried. Thyroidectomy was identified with CPT 60210, 12, 20, 25, 40, 52, 54, 60 in patients ≥18 years and clean (Wound Classification 1) wounds.

Extensive Cervicomediastinal Emphysema from Mastoid Injury.

Traumatic cervicomediastinal emphysema resulting from isolated head trauma is a rare occurrence. Herein, we describe a patient who sustained a closed mastoid injury after being struck with a batted baseball, resulting in acute extensive cervicomediastinal emphysema. Upon further assessment, the patient's aerodigestive tract was determined to have remained intact and unaffected by the injury.

Successful Isavuconazole therapy in a patient with acute invasive fungal rhinosinusitis and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Objectives: To report a case of acute invasive Mucorales rhinosinusitis in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome and diabetes mellitus. To provide a literature review on the role of Isavuconazole in the management of invasive Mucorales rhinosinusitis.

Methods: A literature review was conducted on August 9, 2015 using PubMed database.

Complications of surgery for sporadic vestibular schwannoma.

Objectives: We sought to investigate the postoperative complications of vestibular schwannoma excision and determine their significant clinical predictors.

Study Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: California Hospital Inpatient Discharge Datasets 1997-2011.