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The Missing Link At Anesthesia Induction: Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse
My opinion: As an anesthesia provider, it has always bewildered me that despite visual confirmation of endotracheal tube’s passage across the vocal cords on video-laryngoscopy, capnography confirmation on the anesthesia monitor is sometimes delayed by few-to-many breaths. This delayed appearance of end-tidal carbon dioxide can b..
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"It's poverty, Covid"
My opinion: In 1990s, James Carville said that it is all about economy whichever way one looks at it [1]. Essentially, economy has evolved as a guise for food energy because food energy for individual’s survival requires individual’s society’s economic growth. Now the question arises whether food energy availability is modif..
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Idiopathic Postoperative Paresis: Know The Unknown
Case Report(s): Postoperative paresis can be frustrating when aetiology is unclear. Herein, after obtaining written and informed consents, we are presenting perioperative hospital course of two patients with “idiopathic” postoperative paresis. Case One: 31-year-old multigravida female presented to labour and delivery suite in ac..
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Investigate In-Mask Temperature As A Surrogate Indicator Of Potentially "Therapeutic" Nasopharyngeal Temperature Denoting Masks' Therapeutic Efficiency To Complement Masks' Filtration Efficiency Against SARS-CoV-2 And Its Variants
My opinion: Abundance of information leading to abundance of interpretation leads to abundance of misunderstanding thus creating a double jeopardy preventing the true understanding of information. Herein, I am sharing my interpretation hoping to correct the misunderstanding unless my understanding of the ever-changing situation ma..
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My In-Mask Micro-Climate's Hot And Humid Efficiency
My opinion: Since the dawn of COVID-19 pandemic, I have been personally exploring my masks’ ambiance. After documenting in-mask heat and humidity objectively determined with Hygrochron iButton DS1923 in my face covering [1], I had been wondering whether my in-mask micro-climate will differ (A) if simple mask vs. valved mask vs. ..
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Are We Prescribing More Than 3-Days Worth Opioids' Prescriptions To Our Outpatient Surgical Patients When Discharged On Day Of Surgery? A Quality Improvement Study Worth Exploring
Background: Since the time when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came up with the guidelines [1] to further responsible attitude towards opioid prescriptions in acute pain settings, we have been wondering the status of awareness among opioid prescribers in our institution as well as their responsiveness to the CDC ..
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Uterine giant myomectomy: A case report
Abstract: Background Uterine leiomyomas, the most common benign gynecological tumor, usually occur in females of reproductive age. Myomectomy is the preferred surgical treatment in reproductive-aged women who want to retain their uterus. Myomas can range in size from as small as an apple seed to as large as a melon. Giant uterin..
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Induction of labour in women with nonscarred uterus using balloon catheter: Randomised controlled trial
Abstract : Induction of labour is a common obstetric procedure. At present, different methods are used for induction of labour in women. One of these methods is Foley catheter, which is a low cost method that can induce labour with less risk to the fetus. This is one of the first studies in the Middle East aiming to study efficac..
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Crossed Steinmann Pin Fixation In Supracondylar Femur Fractures In Adults A Case Series
Abstract: Supracondylar femur fractures in adults is a complex fracture constitutes approximately 1% of total fractures and 4-7% of all femoral fractures (Kolmert, 1982)1. There is a bimodal distribution, with young patients with high energy trauma and elderly patients with low-energy falls. Approximately 85% of these fractures ..
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Gait Analysis in Uner Tan Syndrome Cases with Key Symptoms of Quadrupedal Locomotion, Mental Impairment, and Dysarthric or No Speech
Abstract: Introduction: Uner Tan syndrome (UTS) consists of quadrupedal locomotion (QL), impaired intelligence and dysarthric or no speech. Previously, I described the walk of cases with UTS as diagonal sequence (DS) because of ipsilateral limb interference, mostly observed in nonhuman primates with DS QL. The only gait analysis..
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