OBJECTIVES Delineation of clinical characteristics affecting the airway in a cohort of craniofacially deformed children. What factors differ between patients requiring and those not requiring surgical airway intervention? What factors predispose to the need for tracheotomy? When can decannulation be expected if tracheotomy is required? What interventions aid decannulation? STUDY DESIGN Five-y...

Objective. To evaluate the effect of neodymium laser application for successful decannulation in infants with a congenital and acquired tracheal stenosis tracheostomy. Methods. 6 children were being treated 1<sup>st</sup> City Clinical Hospital Minsk 2011-2014. All underwent tracheostomy prolonged intubation subsequent development tracheostenosis. The examined using X-ray, esophagog...

The principal conclusion of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human“ is that the major cause of adverse events, rather than being negligent individuals, is actually the result of poorly designed systems.1 A major and foundational implication of this and all subsequent Institute of Medicine reports pertaining to healthcare transformation is that healthcare providers (physicians, n...

INTRODUCTION: Treacher Collins (TC) and Robin Sequence (RS) are both associated with hypoplastic, retrognathic mandible, glossoptosis, and airway obstruction. Bilateral Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis (MDO) has been used successfully [1] in the past two decades [2] to treat severe airway obstruction and provide a way of enabling successful removal of tracheostomy in the RS population [3]. T...

BACKGROUND The most frequent limb complications from peripheral veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) are limb ischemia and localized bleeding. To minimize these risks, perfusion of the distal limb with peripheral percutaneous cannulation was done. TECHNIQUE Percutaneous cannulation with a distal perfusion port was performed in all patients. During the VA-ECMO, distal li...