AIMS To describe the experience of using high concentration nitrous oxide (N(2)O) relative analgesia administered by nursing staff in children undergoing minor procedures in the emergency department (ED) and to demonstrate its safety. METHOD Data were collected over a 12 month period for all procedures in the ED performed under nurse administered N(2)O sedation. All children greater than 12 m...

Endogenous toxins are protein molecules whose content in the blood is determined by destruction of cells. Not being normal components plasma, they subject to elimination from bloodstream. Due accumulation endogenous toxic substances, intoxication a frequent complication many acute and chronic diseases respiratory system. The present study revealed significant increase markers tubular lesion chi...

Massive pulmonary infiltration by leukemic cells resulting in respiratory symptoms is a rare complication of acute leukemia. We report the findings in a patient with acute myelomonocytic leukemia presenting with acute onset of fever, dyspnea, and nonproductive cough, in whom the diagnosis of pulmonary invasion by leukemic cells was made by cytochemical analysis of bronchoalveolar cells recovere...

Acute respiratory distress developed in two preterm babies because of unilateral hydrothorax secondary to the migration of a central venous catheter into the pulmonary vasculature. Prompt recognition of the problem and rapid treatment are essential and life saving. This complication of intravenous alimentation catheters has not been previously reported in the neonatal age group.

Tracheostomy is a life saving procedure and many patients are discharged with permanent tracheostomy tubes. We report the rare occurrence of a fractured tracheostomy tube migrating into the tracheobronchial tree and highlight the clinical manifestations of this uncommon complication that carries the potential risk of fatal respiratory obstruction.

Sir, Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is most commonly an iatrogenic complication of exogenous gonadotropin administration for ovulation induction. Its clinical presentation varies from abdominal pain and bloating, nausea, vomiting, and ovarian enlargement to possibly life‐threatening conditions including renal failure, hypovolemic shock, adult respiratory distress syndrome, thromboembolism, a...

Respiratory stridor developed rapidly during an interscalene brachial plexus block for shoulder arthroscopy in an obese woman. Extensive cervicothoracic edema due to tissue diffusion of the arthroscopic fluid was suspected. The outcome of patient after conservative management was satisfactory. We give a brief review of how this complication develops, the ultrasound findings, and briefly discuss...

The heart and the respiratory system are closely connected in such a way that disorders of one system would influence the function of the other. This unique case of silicosis complicated by corpulmonale associated with pericardial plaque formation in a young adult male is reported here due to an unknown complication of silicosis.

Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare but serious malignancy-related respiratory complication. The most common causative neoplasm is gastric adenocarcinoma. We report a case caused by metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma, diagnosed postmortem in a 58-year-old male. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case from metastatic prostate adenocarcinoma.

Risk factors for pneumothorax include male sex, height, smoking and underlying lung conditions. The reported causes of bilateral trauma, tumor, iatrogenic causes. Complications Respiratory failure or arrest, Pneumoperitoneum, Pyopneumothorax, Pneumohemothorax, Pneumopericardium, Bronchopulmonary fistula, damage to the neurovascular bundle during tube thoracostomy pain skin infection at site tho...