6 results match your criteria: "King's College Hospital Dubai[Affiliation]"
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- * A case report from the Middle East details a 71-year-old comatose patient diagnosed with TCM while being treated for DKA, highlighting the condition's unusual presentations.
- * The report encourages healthcare providers to be alert for TCM in critically ill patients to identify and manage it early, preventing severe complications.
Immediate sphincter repair following fistulotomy for anal fistula: does it impact the healing rate and septic complications?
Ann Coloproctol
June 2024
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Fistulotomy is a widely used treatment for anal fistula, but there's a concern about it leading to incontinence; this study compares outcomes of patients who had fistulotomy with and without sphincteroplasty.* -
- The research involved 152 patients; those who had sphincteroplasty (Group A) showed more complex fistulas but had similar healing rates and septic complications compared to those who didn't have the repair (Group B).* -
- Both groups achieved comparable healing rates (over 90%) and had no increased risk of postoperative infections, suggesting that sphincteroplasty could be a viable option, warranting further studies to investigate long-term functional outcomes.*
Factors to consider for fascial plane blocks' success in acute and chronic pain management.
Minerva Anestesiol
February 2024
Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
The outcome of fascial plane blocks (FPBs) has a certain variability that may depend on many factors, which can be divided into three main categories: operator-related, patient-related and drug-related. Operator-related factors include personal skills, choice of needle and injection modalities. Patient variables include anthropometric features, the type of targeted fascia, anatomical variants, patient positioning, muscle tone and breathing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSerratus plane block versus standard of care for pain control after totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement: a double-blind, randomized controlled, superiority trial.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
June 2024
Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Jessa Hospital Campus Virga Jesse, Hasselt, Belgium.
Introduction: Serratus anterior plane block has been proposed to reduce opioid requirements after minimally invasive cardiac surgery, but high-quality evidence is lacking.
Methods: This prospective, double-blinded, randomized controlled trial recruited patients undergoing totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement. Patients in the intervention arm received a single-injection serratus anterior plane block on arrival to the intensive care unit added to standard of care.
There are several stitch techniques used for surgical wound closing. Each stitch has its own benefits and drawbacks that a surgeon must balance before use. In this paper, we highlight some of the more common techniques utilized in operative wound closure and briefly discuss benefits and caveats one must be aware of before using.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStandardizing nomenclature in regional anesthesia: an ASRA-ESRA Delphi consensus study of abdominal wall, paraspinal, and chest wall blocks.
Reg Anesth Pain Med
July 2021
Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Background: There is heterogeneity in the names and anatomical descriptions of regional anesthetic techniques. This may have adverse consequences on education, research, and implementation into clinical practice. We aimed to produce standardized nomenclature for abdominal wall, paraspinal, and chest wall regional anesthetic techniques.
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