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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Dec 2022
Knowledge level on the management of pediatric burn patients among physicians working in the emergency department.
Prognosis of burned child is heavily influenced by how they are treated in the first 24 h. This study aimed to assess the degree of knowledge of emergency department physicians about the pediatric burn patients. ⋯ As result, physicians practicing in the emergency department have a poor knowledge level about pediatric burns. Hence, pediatric burn education should be provided to all emergency department physicians.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Dec 2022
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the characteristics of patients presenting to the pediatric ocular emergency department in Türkiye: Demographic and diagnoses.
This study aims to evaluate how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the demographics and diagnoses of patients presenting at a pediatric ophthalmology emergency department (POED) in Türkiye. ⋯ Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer pediatric patients visited the POED during the first and second stay-at-home periods than during the same periods in 2019, although the difference was less during the second period. Demographic data and diagnoses from year to year, however, were similar. These findings could aid clinicians in developing new strategies and guidelines for POED management in extraordinary situations such as pandemics.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Dec 2022
Effect of pheniramine maleate on rat skeletal muscle ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Skeletal muscle ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a common clinical problem encountered after tourniquet ap-plication or replantation. This study investigated the effect of pheniramine maleate (Ph), which is frequently used in clinical practice to reduce IRI, and compared its efficacy in IRI with N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a molecule that has been shown to be effective in IRI. ⋯ Ph is effective at reducing experimental rat skeletal muscle IRI.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Dec 2022
Case ReportsIncarcerated appendix epiploica in a right inguinal hernia sac.
Appendix epiploica without a colon in the hernia sac is a rare condition, which is even rarer if it has hypertrophy and presents as an irreducible hernia. We describe a case of appendix epiploica in a 37-year-old male patient with a strangulated right inguinal hernia that was herniated to the right inguinal canal. Considering the superiority of laparoscopy to open technique for viewing the hernia contents, we planned laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal surgery. ⋯ Inside was the strangulated appendages epiploica, which extended from the sigmoid colon wall. Anterior wall inguinal hernioplasty was performed. In conclusion, it should not be ignored that there may be appendix epiploica within the hernia sac in inguinal hernias and laparoscopic approaches should be the treatment method of choice.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Dec 2022
Intraductal botulinum toxin injection suppressed the inflammation in experimental acute pancreatitis.
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of pancreas in which pancreas enzymatic activity is increased. Parasym-pathetic innervation of pancreas plays an important role in several functions of pancreas. Botulinum toxin (BTx) might be a tool to suppress the pancreas activity in AP. ⋯ Administration of intraductal BTx suppressed the AP without making significant suppression in endogenous activity of pancreas.