OBJECTIVE Over a million ventilation tubes are placed annually in the United States, making this one of the most commonly performed procedures in the field of medicine. Certain factors increase the risk of persistent tympanic membrane perforation following the extrusion of short term ventilation tubes. Persistent perforations may fail to heal on their own, necessitating surgical closure to avoi...

Neonates and small infants with craniofacial malformation may be very difficult or impossible to mask ventilate or intubate. We would like to report the fiberoptic intubation of a small infant with Treacher Collins Syndrome using the technique described by Ellis et al. CASE REPORT An one month-old infant with Treacher Collins Syndrome was scheduled for mandibular surgery under general endotra...

Objective: To compare the effects of nasal packing using a Nasopore with and without an airway tube on postoperative pain, SpO2, obstruction, difficulty in breathing complaints.
 Methods: This comparative study was conducted at Dow University Health Sciences (DUHS), DMC Civil Hospital Karachi between September 18, 2021, to May 19, 2022. A total 70 patients who underwent septoplasty for sep...

Background Various techniques have been introduced to decrease complications during nasotracheal intubation. A common practice is to use nasal packing with a cotton stick and 0.01% epinephrine jelly. However, this procedure can be painful to patients and can damage the nasal mucosa. Xylometazoline spray can induce effective vasoconstriction of the nasal mucosa without direct nasal trauma. In th...

BACKGROUND The placement of nasal or oral gastric tubes is one of the most frequently performed procedures in critically ill children; tube malposition, particularly in the trachea, is an important complication. Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) ventilation (available only on the Servo-i ventilator, Maquet Critical Care, Solna, Sweden) requires a proprietary-design catheter (Maquet Cr...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy and safety of lidocaine nasal spray before nasogastric tube insertion in an emergency department. DESIGN Double-blind, randomised controlled study. SETTING Emergency department of a major regional hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS A total of 206 adult patients, for whom nasogastric tube insertion was indicated. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Primary outcome wa...

purpose : to report a case of retained silicone tube case report : we report a case of 48-year-old iranian lady who referred to the department of otolaryngology with 18 years history of epiphora and intermittent mucopurulant discharge from the left lacrimal canaliculi. she had external dacryocystorhinostomy (dcr) with silicon stenting for epiphora 18 years ago but epiphora had continued after s...

INTRODUCTION The exposed section of a traditional nasogastric (NG) tube can interfere with patients' social activities and thereby result in distress. This study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and safety of a novel two-piece NG tube for patients with dysphagia. METHODS Ten patients with dysphagia were recruited between November 2011 and May 2012. Patients who were unconscious or in...