Pediatric disorders that involve actual or potential airway compromise are among the most challenging cases that emergency department providers face. This article discusses the diagnosis and management of common and uncommon conditions in infants and children who may present with airway obstruction.

Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (J.P.B., S.J.S.), New York, New York 10032; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (J.T.P., R.N.), Boston, Massachusetts 02114; American University of Beirut Medical Center (G.E.-H.F.), Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine (M.K.), D...

1Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; 3American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 4Novartis Corporation, East Hanover, NJ; 5University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 6Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, CA; 7Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; 8University of Miami, FL; 9Columbia University, New York, NY; 10University of Mis...

1American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 2University College London, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 4First Department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece; 5Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 6Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial...

BACKGROUND To date, approximately 43 cases of hyperkeratosis of the nipple and areola have been reported, most of which have been sporadic. OBSERVATION We describe 3 patients with this dermatosis who were encountered in the outpatient clinic of the Department of Dermatology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, within a 1-year period. CONCLUSION Hyperkeratosi...

Tommaso Caneva,1,2 Tommaso Calarco,2 Rosario Fazio,3 Giuseppe E. Santoro,1,4,5 and Simone Montangero2 1International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste, Italy 2Institut für Quanteninformationsverarbeitung, Universität Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany 3NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore & Istituto di Nanoscienze-CNR, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy 4CNR-INFM De...

Retrospective measurements underestimate nightmare frequency, but little is known about how retrospective duration and attention for nightmares may affect this process. This study evaluates the differences between two retrospective durations, a prospective log, and a retrospective estimate after keeping this log. Forty-nine participants completed the SLEEP-50, kept a nightmare log, and estimate...

The aim was to investigate the role of age, drug abuse, period of confinement, loneliness, difficulty in controlling emotions, having no friends in prison, victimization in prison, guilt over crimes, insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and mood change in predicating suicide attempts in a sample of homicidal young prisoners. Poisson regression model indicated that five variables contribut...