OBJECTIVE To assess long-term complication rate and parental satisfaction of osseointegrated bone conduction hearing implants (OBCHIs). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review of children undergoing OBCHIs. METHODS A retrospective chart review of children undergoing OBCHIs for the treatment of conductive, mixed, and single-sided sensorineural hearing loss in children. RESULTS Forty-five s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate children's sleep patterns before and after ambulatory surgery and to identify predictors of sleep decrements following surgery. METHODS Participants were 55, 6- to 12-year-old children undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Sleep was assessed using actigraphy for 5 nights prior to and 5 nights following surgery. Parent state and trait anxiety, and child perioperativ...

Clonidine is an effective preanesthetic medication in children, providing a preoperative sedative effect. The analgesic properties of the drug have been well documented in adults. The current study was designed to investigate the effect of oral clonidine given preoperatively on postoperative pain in children undergoing minor surgery. In a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial, 90 c...

Surgery, in particular the preparation procedure for anaesthesia, can be very stressful for children and has a profound effect.1,2 Excessive anxiety and stress can affect children’s physical and mental well-being, hinder their ability to cope with surgery, and inhibit their postoperative recovery. Psychological needs of children are seldom taken into consideration. In a study of paediatric day ...

Effect of ketamine versus alfentanil following midazolam in preventing emergence agitation in children after sevoflurane anaesthesia: A prospective random-ized clinical trial. Ketamine is effective in decreasing the incidence of emergence agitation in children undergoing dental repair under sevo-flurane general anesthesia. Effects of ketamine and midazolam on emergence agitation after sevoflura...

BACKGROUND Otherwise healthy children who present for elective surgery with an upper respiratory infection (URI) may be at risk for perioperative respiratory complications. This risk may be increased in children with congenital heart disease who undergo cardiac surgery while harboring a URI because of their compromised cardiopulmonary status. Therefore, this study was designed to determine the ...

background and aims. gingival hyperplasia, a relatively common side effect of antiepileptic and anticonvulsant drugs, occurs in 30‒50% of patients taking phenytoin and 25‒81% of those taking cyclosporine. gingival hyperplasia due to lack of balance between extracellular synthesis and degradation is associated with increased production of il-1b, il-6 and il-8 by gingival fibroblasts. tissue leve...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes between children (<18 yrs) and adults undergoing total thyroidectomy for Graves' disease (GD) at a high volume, multidisciplinary thyroid center. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Reported complication rates for children undergoing surgery for Graves' disease are worse than for adults. METHODS 100 consecutive patients (32 children; 68 adults) who underwe...