Emergency management in otorhinolaryngology.

Halitosis in Otorhinolaryngology Practice

Introduction: Halitosis is a common and devastating condition, which may affect up to 1/3 of the population. It can be classified either as genuine halitosis, pseudohalitosis, or halitophobia. Genuine halitosis is more common and usually related to an organic pathology such as periodontitis. Malodour molecules such as sulfur compounds that arise from bacterial interactions generate the basis of...

Emergency Management of Common Diseases in Children

Acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and fever are very common in children below the age of five years. All children suffer from these illnesses several times each year. However, during natural disasters like floods children are even more vulnerable to these diseases and death. Pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria, and associated malnutrition, are responsible for over 60% deaths in childr...

Safe patient care – safety culture and risk management in otorhinolaryngology

Safety culture is positioned at the heart of an organisation's vulnerability to error because of its role in framing organizational awareness to risk and in providing and sustaining effective strategies of risk management. Safety related attitudes of leadership and management play a crucial role in the development of a mature safety culture ("top-down process"). A type marker for organizational...

Signs in Otorhinolaryngology

[Hodgkin's lymphoma in otorhinolaryngology].

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the implication of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) in Otorhinolaryngology. PATIENTS AND METHODS A longitudinal retrospective study on patients with HL diagnosed, treated and followed-up in our Centre from 1996 to 2010. RESULTS From 413 individuals having lymphoma, 120 were labelled as HL (29%). Patients were males in 76% and greater incidence was observed in ages between 15 a...