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Is Daycare Tonsillectomy Safe?

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon.  Usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. With the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  Materials and Methods: A...

Safe in the Sun

سرطانهای جلدی را می توان به انواع پیش بدخیم و بدخیم تقسیم نمود. شایعترین ضایعه جلدی پیش بدخیم، کراتوز آفتابی نام دارد که بصورت ضایعات خشک و دلمه دار جلدی بروز می کنند - لنتیگو  آفتابی یک ضایعه پیش بدخیم دیگرن است که بصورت لکه های قهوه ای و صاف (غیر برجسته روی پوست مشاهده می شوند) ضایعات پیش بدخیم در صورت عدم درمان می توانند بدخیم شوند. 

How safe is safe enough?

Hospitals are rather strange places to work. The rationale, after all, of purposely concentrating into close quarters the sick, the frail, and the contagious is elusive at times. Further compounding the situation is the introduction of healthcare workers into the mix, usually at the ratio of approximately five or six full-time employees for every hospital bed. In no other circumstance, except p...

Are we really in safe hands? How safe is safe?

After safe sex, safe surgery?

Robinson et al found no benefit between those who were treated with steroids and those who were not.'" The results of further studies in patients suffering from combined burns and smoke inhalation injury suggest that giving steroids leads to increased mortality and morbidity, mainly because infection occurs more often." 12 Early treatment of smoke inhalation focuses on keeping the upper airways...