Tracheobronchial suctioning is an essential part of routine care for mechanically ventilated patients. Closed, rather than open, suction catheters are preferred for their advantages, which include minimizing risk of hypoxemia and containment of potentially infected secretions during suctioning.1,2 A closed-suction catheter is situated between the endotracheal tube (ETT) and the Y-piece of the b...

AIM To assess the long-term quality of life (QoL) and symptoms experienced by patients who underwent esophageal replacement for congenital and acquired children esophageal pathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group comprised 71 patients divided into 2 groups, group I: 34 patients who underwent gastric tube esophagoplasty, and group II: 37 patients who underwent colic tube esophagoplasty....

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare the heat generated from different depths of an implant drilling site with and without a sleeve. materials and methods: in this study, 60 cortical bone samples were used and a load of 2.0 kg was applied. rilling for implant surgery, we used a diameter of 4.3 mm and a normal sleeve. heat was measured from 3 different depths(3,6, and 9 mms). d...

BACKGROUND Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is a complex operation, and the detailed optimal surgical procedure has not been well described. Our aim was to evaluate use of a simple method of laparoscopic gastric tube construction as minimally invasive surgery for patients with esophageal cancer. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of 26 consecutive patients who underwent MIE for...

A 65-year-old male was operated for esophageal carcinoma. Transhiatal esophagogastrectomy with jejunostomy feeding tube was done. Orals were started on the 12th postoperative day. The jejunostomy feeding tube was removed on the 20th postoperative day. Immediately after removal of the feeding tube, a 10-12 cm ascaris was seen emerging through the jejunostomy tract. Ascaris lumbricoides can cause...

Methods This study was conducted on 100 patients who were admitted to Critical Care Medicine Department in Alexandria Main University Hospital with an indication of endotracheal tube placement. All patients were examined by ultrasonography “linear probe” after endotracheal tube insertion. Results were compared with capnometric readings (end tidal CO2). After confirmation of endotracheal tube po...

Unlike traditional drift-tube ion mobility-mass spectrometry, traveling-wave ion mobility-mass spectrometry typically requires calibration in order to generate collision cross section (CCS) values. Although this has received a significant amount of attention for positive-ion mode analysis, little attention has been paid for CCS calibration in negative ion mode. Here, we provide drift-tube CCS v...

A benign fistula between the gastric tube and the airway resulting from esophagectomy is a rare complication, but it is a potentially life-threatening status. We present a 59-year-old man with thoracic empyema and lung abscess resulting from a benign gastric tube-to-pulmonary fistula caused by a penetration of the peptic ulcer in the gastric tube four years after an esophagectomy for esophageal...