Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a growing population of diagnostically heterogeneous children characterized by chronic conditions affecting multiple organ systems, the use of medical technology at home as well as intensive healthcare service utilization. Many of these children will experience either a respiratory-related complication and/or they will become established on respiratory...

background: tick and tenacious secretions is one of the problems in suctioning and the instillation of normal saline in airways is one of the ways for removing pulmonary secretions. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of endotracheal suctioning using or not using normal saline on respiratory physiologic parameters in open heart surgery patients. methods: this study was a one-group...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may be a severe complication of descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) that dramatically increases mortality in conventionally treated patients.1 Extracorporeal respiratory support in case of ARDS secondary to DNM represents a hard challenge, as a very severe clinical condition is treated with a complex technique. Here we describe a case of ARDS se...

Laryngeal paralysis is a common cause of upper airway obstruction in older, large-breed dogs and is likely associated with a generalized polyneuropathy in most animals. Surgical therapy is frequently indicated, and UAL is currently the recommended treatment. Respiratory signs significantly improve in most patients after surgery; however, postoperative complication rates can be high, and patient...

Up to 60% of all children that receive to bone marrow transplantation (BMT) develop respiratory distress. It constitutes a common complication in this kind of patients, due to the increasing number of therapeutic applications of BMT and to improvement in the therapeutic approach to the problems associated with this procedure. We describe the different causes of respiratory distress after BMT in...

BACKGROUND/AIM Varicella is a common and benign disease of childhood. Complications are rare, but in some patients, even without risk factors, severe, life treathening complications could be seen. The aim of this study was to establish the type and frequency of varicella complications among hospitalised patients over an 8-year period. METHODS This retrospective analysis included medical chart...

We present a combined obstetric and respiratory perspective on two pregnancies for a woman with severe Type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Our patient had the lowest prepregnancy weight (20 kg) and vital capacity of 0.34 L (VC 11% predicted) yet to be reported in the sparse literature on pregnancy with SMA. She delivered two live healthy infants via planned caesarean section without pregnancy...