REFERENCE Caterson SA, Singh M, Orgill D, et al. Development of standardized clinical assessment and management plans (SCAMPs) in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Continuous Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block and Intraoperative Coeliac Plexus Block (CPB) for Post-Operative Analgesia Following Laparotomy: Two Case Reports Vasanth Rao Kadam, and George Kiroff Clinical Senior Lecturer, The University of Adelaide, Acute Care Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville, SA, 5011. Australia Division of Surgery, Hepatobiliary Unit,...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) on stereoacuity (SA). METHODS This prospective study includes 200 patients scheduled for LASIK. SA was evaluated preoperatively and one week, one month and three months postoperatively using the Random Dot test. Patients with preoperative SA worse than 480 sec/arc were excluded from the study. RESULTS The study included ...

Benefits derived from the Council for Health Services Accreditation South Africa (COHSASA) accreditation of the Universitas Academic Hospital (UAH) in Bloemfontein are illustrated. Accreditation assessments were performed between 2001 and 2007, and full compliance with the COHSASA standards for Academic Hospitals was achieved. An initiative to develop thoracic surgery in central South Africa (S...

Anna Guacci , Massimiliano Chetta , Francesca Rizzo , Giovanna Marchese , Maria Rosaria De Filippo , Giorgio Giurato , Giovanni Nassa , Maria Ravo , Roberta Tarallo , Teresa Rocco , Francesca Felicia Operto , Alessandro Weisz **, Giangennaro Coppola * a Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Genomics, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, via S. Allende 1, 84081 Baronissi, SA...

Background: Evidence shows that spinal anesthesia can alter the penile length and engorgement fact patients undergoing may experience erectile dysfunction. We hypothesized would not result in altered length; however, it lead to temporary Methods: A total of 73 referred our hospital for endoscopic urological surgeries underwent either (SA, n = 37) or general (GA, 36). measured patients’ both str...

An intracranial serpentine aneurysm (SA) is a clinically rare entity, and very few multi-case studies on SA have been published. The present study reviewed the relevant literature available on PubMed. The studied information included the formation mechanism and natural history of SA as well as its clinical manifestation, imaging characteristics, and current treatments. After reviewing the liter...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 a 44-year-old man with upper abdominal pain, diarrhea and 25 kg weight loss since 3 months ago was admitted. he had a history of dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease 4 months before admission. gastroduodenal endoscopy and upper gastrointestinal series with barium study were done. biopsies and ct-scan ruled out malignancies. ...

Upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding secondary to a ruptured splenic artery (SA) pseudoaneurysm into the stomach is a rare but a life-threatening condition. Owing to the low prevalence, it remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. A frail 77-year-old Caucasian female presented with epigastric pain and hematemesis. Endoscopy was non-diagnostic for an etiology. She then underwent diagnosti...