BACKGROUND Intraosseous (IO) access represents a reliable alternative to intravenous vascular access and is explicitly recommended in the current guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council when intravenous access is difficult or impossible. We therefore aimed to study the efficacy of the intraosseous needle driver EZ-IO in the prehospital setting. METHODS During a 24-month period, all c...

Introduction Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCF) are common in routine medical practice and usually heal without neurologic complications. However, vertebral bodies that are severely osteoporotic and located in thoracolumbar junction are more susceptible to non-healing with resultant intravertebral cleft formation (1). Recently, dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imagin...

Intraosseous venous malformations are rare lesions in the facial bones often presenting incidentally on imaging, and accounting for 0.5% to 1% of all osseous tumors. Physicians presented with a diagnostic challenge differentiating intraosseous from bony mandible midface. This is due rarity malformations, which have an asymptomatic course, potential significant intraoperative blood loss. We repo...

763–7 2 Hebbard P. Subcostal transversus abdominis plane block under ultrasound guidance. Anesth Analg 2008; 106: 674–5 3 Hebbard P, Fujiwara Y, Shibata Y, Royse C. Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block. Anaesth Intensive Care 2007; 35: 616–7 4 Tran TMN, Ivanusic JJ, Hebbard P, et al. Determination of spread of injectate after ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane bl...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of consensus regarding the optimal surgical approach and fixation method for distal biceps tendon ruptures. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review comparing the results of the various surgical approaches and repair techniques for acute distal biceps tendon ruptures. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE, Cochrane, and Embase databases for all publish...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to measure the distance of the intraosseous vascular anastomosis in the anterolateral wall of the maxillary sinus from different reference points, and to correlate the location of the intraosseous vascular anastomosis with the tooth position and the residual bone height of the maxilla. METHODS Computed tomography (CT) images were taken from 283 patients und...

BACKGROUND Several insertion sites have been described for intraosseous puncture in cases of emergencies when a conventional vascular access cannot be established. This pilot study has been designed to evaluate the feasibility of the mandibular bone for the use of an intraosseous vascular access in a cadaver model. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS 17 dentistry and 16 medical students participat...