The aim of this study was to determine the effect of reducing mAs on the diagnostic quality of images and the radiation dose to the orbits in patients undergoing sinus CT. We studied 40 consecutive patients undergoing paranasal sinus CT for inflammatory disease prior to functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Four groups of 10 patients were scanned at 200 mAs, 150 mAs, 100 mAs and 50 mAs, r...

UNLABELLED Acoustic rhinometry is an objective method to determine nasal cavity geometry. The technique is based on sound wave reflexion analysis in the nasal cavity, and determines crossectional areas as a function of distance as well as volume. AIM The purpose of this study is to analyse nasal cavity volume changes caused by functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in adults with chronic ...

The paper presents the issues of a wind turbine-flywheel energy storage system (WT-FESS) operation under real conditions. Stochastic changes of wind energy in time cause significant fluctuations of the system output power and as a result have a negative impact on the quality of the generated electrical energy. In the author's opinion it is possible to reduce the aforementioned effects by using ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the etiology and site of leak of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea and the surgical efficacy of Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS), in closing the defect of CSF leak by different graft materials. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of ENT-Head and Neck Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, from September 2005 to D...

A 250 kW / 5 kWh engineering prototype Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) was designed, fabricated and component tested by Adelwitz Technologiezentrum GmbH (ATZ) and L-3 Communications Magnet Motor GmbH (MM). A heavy – load vertical 0.6 ton rotor is suspended totally magnetically by an HTS radial-passive bearing on the top together with a PM bearing at the bottom. Further features are the fl...

BackgroundActivation of an acute ‘Code Stroke’ pathway on hospital arrival improves thrombolysis rates. Whilst post-stroke protocols to manage fever, hyperglycaemia, and dysphagia (Fever, Sugar Swallow (FeSS) Protocols) have been shown reduce death dependency, facilitated implementation in Emergency Department (ED) has difficult.AimTo evaluate if expanded role for Acute Stroke Nurse Code activa...

Reply to: " The ENT's role in sinus lift management doesn't need misleading messages " Replica a: " Il ruolo dello Specialista ORL nella gestione del grande rialzo sinusale non necessita di messaggi fuorvianti " Dear Editor, Two years ago we published an article in Acta Otorhi-nolaryngologica Italica entitled " Maxillary sinus elevation in conjunction with transnasal endoscopic treatment of rhi...

OBJECTIVE A comparative study to evaluate the efficacy of dexmedetomidine as a hypotensive agent in comparison to esmolol in Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS). METHODS Forty patients ASA I or II scheduled for FESS were equally randomly assigned to receive either dexmedetomidine 1 μg/Kg over 10 min before induction of anesthesia followed by 0.4-0.8 μg/Kg/h infusion during maintenance ...

Increased renewable energy penetration in isolated power systems has a clear impact on the quality of system frequency. The flywheel storage (FESS) is mature technology with fast frequency response, high density, round-trip efficiency, low maintenance, no depth discharge effects, and resilience to withstand continuous charge-discharge cycling without lifetime degradation. These FESS properties ...

Management of temperature, glycaemia and dysphagia, reffered to as the Fever, Sugar, Swallowing (FeSS) protocol, improves outcome in patients with acute stroke. Electronic health records can assist efficient alignment such clinical treatment protocol daily patient care. To assess association between implementation FeSS facilitated by an advanced electronic record (EHR), adherence 90 days after ...