Hydrostatic Injury Surgical Planning

Sever Gastrointestinal Caustic Injury and Surgical Treatment

Approximately 20% of caustic ingestions result in some degree of esophageal injury. Alkaline materials are the most frequent corrosive materials ingested.     The physical form and PH of ingested materials play a critical role in the site and type of gastrointestinal injury (PH > 12 or PH < 1.5, crystalline drain cleaners). Unlike Alkaline solutions, strong acids are bitter, burn on contact and...

Hydrostatic rectosigmoid perforation: a rare personal watercraft injury.

Personal watercrafts (PWC), also known as jet skis, seadoos, and wave-runners have risen in popularity since their introduction in the 1970s. Hydrostatic rectal injury is a rare presentation of passengers thrown off a PWC. The perforation of the rectum is owing to the excessive hydrostatic force of water exerted through the anal canal. We present the first case of rectosigmoid perforation secon...

‘ Surgical Planning For Knee Surgery

Current Status of Surgical Planning for Orthognathic Surgery: Traditional Methods versus 3D Surgical Planning

BACKGROUND Orthognathic surgery has traditionally been performed using stone model surgery. This involves translating desired clinical movements of the maxilla and mandible into stone models that are then cut and repositioned into class I occlusion from which a splint is generated. Model surgery is an accurate and reproducible method of surgical correction of the dentofacial skeleton in cleft a...

Post-surgical acute kidney injury

Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been proven to increase patient mortality in all clinical settings: general out-ofhospital population, in-hospital admissions, adult and pediatric intensive care units (ICU), adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, and (last but not least) the relatively high portion formed by post-operative general surgery patients. In a study population of 1,166 patients without pre...