ANASTHESIA-PARALYSIS

ANASTHESIA FOR SIMULTANEOUS BILATERAL NEPHRECTOMY LEONArm

BILATERAL SIMULTANEOUS NEPHRECTOMY is a important surgical procedure prior to renal transplant. Any anaesthetist may be asked to anaesthetize for this operation, as these procedures may be carried out in centres other than those where the renal transplant may be performed at a later date The anaesthetic problems in bilateral nephrectomy are not unlike those associated with renal transplantation...

Tourniquet paralysis.

CLINICAL MATERIAL OF necessity, a very large sample of procedures needs to be gathered to give a significant amount of information, as complications from the use of tourniquets are rare. Because of their rarity and the concern of the surgeon on these occasions, it was thought that questionnaire information was likely to be quite accurate. One hundred and fifty-one members of the Australian Orth...

Infantile Paralysis

Bulbar Paralysis and Facial Paralysis due to Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Skull-base metastasis (SBM) from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is extremely rare, and multiple cranial nerve paralysis due to SBM from HCC is also rare. We report a case of bulbar and facial paralysis due to SBM from HCC. A 46-year-old Chinese man presented with a hepatic right lobe lesion that was detected during a routine physical examination. After several failed attempts to treat the prima...

Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey

Introduction On July 11, 2012, New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) Communicable Disease Service (CDS) surveillance staff received email notification of a statewide anomaly in EpiCenter for Paralysis. Two additional anomalies followed within three hours. Since Paralysis Anomalies are uncommon, staff initiated an investigation to determine if there was an outbreak or other event of concern taki...