Introduction: Tracheobronchial foreign body removal, is a common emergent problem especially in pediatric population and it is associated with greatest challenge to the anesthesiologist as well as to the surgeon as the airway has to be shared by both. Various pulmonary changes associated with foreign body impaction also occurs. Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of foreign body removal o...

The widespread of bariatric surgery and the increase in its popularity among obese individuals resulted in the emergence of a new patient population, the Massive Weight Loss (MWL) population. It is characterized by major anatomical and physiological changes associated with the substantial postoperative weight reduction [1]. These patients, who still maintain many of the co-morbidities of obesit...

CONTEXT The foreign ingestion is common occurrence but migration to pancreas is rare entity. Most of foreign bodies pass spontaneously through the anus but about 1% can perforate the wall of stomach or duodenum to reach solid organ. Pancreatic foreign body can results in fatal complication. Pancreatic foreign body can be removed endoscopically or surgically. CASE REPORT We are reporting a cas...

Body sensor networks e.g., for health monitoring, consist of several low-power on-body wireless sensors, higher-level devices such as PDAs and possibly actuators such as drug delivery pumps. It is important that such networks can adapt autonomously to changing conditions such as failures, changes in context e.g., user activity, or changes in the clinical condition of patients. Potential reconfi...

* Healy: Sociology Department, Duke University, 417 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708 (e-mail: kjhealy@soc. duke.edu); Krawiec: Duke University School of Law, 210 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708 (e-mail: krawiec@law. duke.edu) . † Go to https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171108 to visit the article page for additional materials and author disclosure statement(s). Alvin Roth remarks that, although it o...

Obesity has been classified as an epidemic. It has become a major world-wide health issue while it directly causes many nutrition-related conditions (Caballero, 2007.). The United States is leading in number of people with weight problems. Over 60 % of its population are considered overweighed (body mass index 26-30 kgm-2) and half of that obsessed (body mass index >30kgm-2) (http://obesity1.te...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and to describe the clinical results of the nonoperative management of vertical C2 body fractures. METHODS An 8-year retrospective review of upper cervical spine injuries from the registry of a level I trauma center identified 21 patients with a vertical C2 body fracture. RESULTS Sixteen coronally oriented Type 1 vertical C2 body fractures and 5 sagittall...

(Dis)ordered body management practices such as transgenderism and anorexia are largely conceptualized within psychology as the pathological manifestation of individual distress. It is argued that the way they are talked about, treated and ultimately understood as matters of and for health, serves the regulatory (socio-cultural and political) function of targeting more visible embodiments as pro...