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We report a case of impossible ventilation in a patient with severe nasal bleeding. A 47-year-old man with intractable nasal bleeding was scheduled for emergent hemostasis under general anesthesia. He also had alcohol-related cirrhosis and was highly obese (165 cm, 93 kg). Although he sufficiently
A 53-year-old dialysis patient was admitted with symptoms of a respiratory tract infection, abdominal pain and vomiting. She aspirated and required intubation. A nasogastric tube was placed with slight difficulty and the patient developed severe epistaxis. The bleeding could not be controlled with
BACKGROUND
Epistaxis is a common problem that occurs in up to 60% of the general population, and is a common emergency department (ED) complaint. The use of lidocaine for analgesia is common when cauterization is required for bleeds that are refractory to manual compression. Although the use of
Problems related with nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) are nasal and mouth dryness, soreness on the bridge of the nose, eye irritation and epistaxis. Gastrointestinal distention due to air swallowing has been reported in half of the patients. Acceleration of digestive
BACKGROUND
We investigated selumetinib (AZD6244, ARRY-142886), an oral, potent, and highly selective, allosteric MEK1/2 inhibitor, plus platinum-doublet chemotherapy for patients with advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
METHODS
In this Phase I, open-label study (NCT01809210),
Extradural hemorrhages are commonly seen in coup head injuries, rarely seen in contrecoup head injuries. Acute extradural hemorrhage in the coup head injuries associated with a fracture is common, but the incidence of acute contrecoup extradural hemorrhage not associated with the fracture is
BACKGROUND
Children have non specific symptoms after mild head injury (MHI). It is difficult to define indication of CT scan among them. We aimed at identification of predictors of CT scan findings after MHI.
METHODS
Children aged ≤12 years with GCS 13-15 after head injury were retrospectively
According to Phillips, Continuous Lateral Rotation (CLR) or Kinetic Therapy (KT) together with the technological advances obtain some important benefits in mechanically ventilated patients.
OBJECTIVE
Compare Static Prone Decubitus (PD) with DP in CRL.
METHODS
We analyzed 2 groups with a total of 41
A 19-year-old boy suffered from headache and intermittent CSF rhinorrhea, was admitted to Matsuyama Shimin Hospital on June 1, 1979. Two months prior to admission he had had a frontal head injury with confusion and the right nasal bleeding. Plain skully x-ray films and biplane (axial & coronal) CT
A case is reported here of brain abscess due to Streptococcus sanguis in association with multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. A 19-year-old male who had been diagnosed in 1988 as pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas was admitted to our hospital for repeated epistaxis, headache, and vomiting. A
Dengue fever is the world's most important viral hemorrhagic fever disease, the most geographically wide-spread of the arthropod-born viruses, and it causes a wide clinical spectrum of disease. We report a case of dengue hemorrhagic fever complicated by acute hepatitis. The initial picture of
BACKGROUND
Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy is traditionally performed under general anaesthesia. However, there are reports in the literature of various local anaesthetic techniques with or without sedation for this procedure. An effective and acceptable local anaesthetic technique enables the
A 61-year-old male fell from a position 1 m high when building a house. An iron rod, which protruded upward from a solid base in cement, penetrated this patient's neck 15 cm to the head and was successfully extracted by himself. On admission, he complained of headache and vomiting. General
A report of 19 cases of serologically-proven dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) in infants aged 3-12 months who were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics, Chon Buri Regional Hospital, Thailand, during 1995 to 1998. Subjects were 8 males and 11 females, with the peak age of 8 months. Four cases (21%)