Enteral feeding has become an important means of providing nutritional support to seriously ill patients. Placement of the feeding tube through the pyloric ring and past the ligament of Treitz into the proximal jejunum is critical to reduce the risk of gastroesophageal regurgitation and microaspiration. We started utilizing transnasal endoscopy for intestinal feeding tube placement, placing ent...

when our data were consistent with other work. Overall, there was a significant difference between epistaxis in upper and lower pathway cannulation, but as we indicated in the paper, the number of preformed and thermosoftened preformed tubes passing though the lower pathway was too small (16.7% and 20%, respectively) for meaningful statistical analysis on their own. However, when reinforced tub...

Corresponding author: Keon-Sik Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Hoegidong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-702, Korea. Tel: 82-2-958-8591, Fax: 82-2-958-8580, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/license...

PURPOSE Even though aural fullness is ubiquitous among patients presenting to otolaryngology clinics, the association between aural fullness and disease development has not yet been clearly determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study was performed on outpatients from June 2006 to February 2010 whose major complaint was "ear fullness", "aural fullness", or "ear pressure". We assessed their dem...

Learning Objectives: Patulous eustachian tube (PET) can have a significant negative impact on a patient’s quality of life. Several methods of surgical management can be an option to treat PET, and our objective is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of autologous cartilage injection in patients with PET. Thirty-three ears of twenty-five patientswith chronic PET refractory to conservative treatm...

BACKGROUND Active upper respiratory tract infection (URI), orotracheal intubation and use of inhalation anesthetics are known risk factors for perioperative respiratory adverse events (RAE). This study investigated the risk factors of perioperative RAE in children with these risk factors. METHODS The records of 159 children who underwent general anesthesia with an orotracheal tube and inhalat...

BACKGROUND Use of general anaesthesia or deep sedation during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies leads to pharyngeal muscle relaxation, often resulting in snoring and subsequent vibrations with head micromotion. Given that MRI is very susceptible to motion, this causes artifacts and image quality degradation. The purpose of our study was to determine the effectiveness of different airway ...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobials treatment of Otitis media (OM) reduces some complications, but some of chronic complications, and specially otitis media with effusion (OME), seem to increase. Theoretically the usage of nasal corticosteroid sprays may prevent this problem by reducing the local inflammation around the eustachian tube. So, this study aimed to evaluate the role of nasal corticosteroid sp...

introduction: septal deviation is the chief cause of chronic nasal obstruction. in order to treat such cases, nasal septoplasty surgery is usually performed based on patient complaints and a surgeon's examination, both of which are subjective. this study aims at using the objective parameters of acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry to evaluate the effectiveness of septoplasty surgery.   ...