A new study found that Blacks were twice as likely to be hospitalized for status epilepticus as Whites, and there were age and income disparities as well.
The largest clinical trial ever conducted in infants younger than age 1 undergoing heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass found that administering steroids during surgery did not improve post-operative outcomes compared to placebo, according to preliminary late-breaking research to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2022.
not grandparents, i don t care about them, or dogs, but the heavy duty ones. that was why i wrote the book. what it made me realise is, obviously, the grief and the loss is absolutely awful. but the actual caring can be kind of beautiful, and almost nice. 0h, beautiful is the word for it, yeah. we had to learn a lot of stuff to take care of him because the surgeons, when they took out his tumour, they did an amazing job. but because the tumour was wrapped around his brainstem and cranial nerves, he was quite disabled and so one thing that happened was that he had to have a tracheostomy. and when you ve got a kid that young, you ve got a one year old at the time with a tracheostomy, taking care of a child like that is very difficult and there s a lot of stuff you need to learn. so we had to do all that stuff. and it was scary and difficult
Tracheostomy was associated with better in-hospital survival of intubated patients with severe COVID-19 infection compared with intubated patients who did not receive a tracheostomy, a study has shown.
In cases of advanced laryngeal cancer, a complex surgery called laryngectomy is performed, when the organ vital for a person's ability to speak is removed.