Pediatric Plastic Surgical Procedures

Putting it all together: recommendations for improving pain management in plastic surgical procedures-surgical facial rejuvenation.

BACKGROUND Postoperative pain is a major concern for patients undergoing facial aesthetic surgery. Aggressive efforts to reduce postoperative pain while avoiding adverse sequelae, such as nausea and vomiting, will result in an improved patient experience. Newer pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and longer-acting local anesthetics offer the potential to reduce pain and enhance patient satisfacti...

Common ground: measuring intrainstitutional mortality among pediatric surgical procedures.

BACKGROUND For adult populations, hospitals that have low mortality rates for one surgical discipline tend to have low mortality rates for other surgical disciplines. We sought to determine to what degree mortality rates for high-risk pediatric surgical procedures were correlated within institutions. METHODS High-risk operations performed on patients ≤ 10 years of age were identified in the 2...

Pediatric abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: diagnosis through surgical and non-surgical procedures.

OBJECTIVE To describe the success rate and the complications after procedures to diagnose abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children and adolescents. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted with a population consisting of children and adolescents with abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed between September 1994 and December 2012. The sample comprised of 100 patients...

Palliative Pediatric Shunt Procedures

Evaluating Blood Requests and Transfusion Practice in Major Surgical Procedures

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...