Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sulcus placement is more technically difficult but preserves endothelial cells. Consider factors such as eye ...

Universal guidelines and improvements in technology are needed to reduce injuries and deaths from improper placement of nasogastric feeding tubes in pediatric patients, according to a comprehensive ...

Considering lung collapse (pneumothorax) affects 2-5% of 35 million feeding tube placements every year worldwide, the safe placement of a nasogastric feeding tube requires special medical care.

Tympanostomy tubes are commonly placed to treat chronic otitis media with effusion and recurrent acute otitis media. In fact, tympanostomy tube placement is the most common ambulatory surgery ...

The insertion of a chest tube is a common procedure in trauma care, and the Advanced Trauma Life Support program teaches the insertion of chest tubes as an essential and life-saving skill. The purpose ...

Detecting sarcopenia at baseline alongside markers of malnutrition could guide decision-making regarding the need for feeding tube placement in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma ...

This second of two articles on nasogastric tube insertion explains the procedure for adults. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test. Abstract This second article on ...

The impact of admitting ward on resource utilization and outcomes among hospitalized cancer survivors. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does ...

Placement of a chest tube may be necessary for management of pleural space disease in mammals. This column describes two accepted techniques for thoracostomy tube placement in the dog. A thoracostomy ...

A new study published in the BMC Surgery revealed that T-tube placement during hepaticojejunostomy in pancreatic surgery does ...