POSTOPERATIVE STRIDOR
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 4-year-old male status post inguinal hernia repair develops post-operative stridor in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). PREOPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Print Section Listen Stridor is noisy…
EPIGLOTTITIS
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 4-year-old female presents to the emergency room with inspiratory stridor, excessive drooling, and substernal retractions and fever. She complains of a sore throat. PREOPERATIVE…
CLEFT LIP AND PALATE REPAIR
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 10-month-old female is scheduled for repair of a cleft palate. She had her cleft lip repaired at the age of 6 months without complications….
BILATERAL MYRINGOTOMY AND TUBES IN A PATIENT WITH AN UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen An otherwise healthy 2-year-old male child presents with a history of multiple ear infections and hearing loss. He has just completed a course of amoxicillin…
POSTTONSILLECTOMY BLEEDING
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 10-year-old female presents to the emergency room with a history of spitting blood-tinged secretions for 2 days and vomiting blood in the last 12…
TONSILLECTOMY AND ADENOIDECTOMY IN A PATIENT WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
YOUR PATIENT Print Section Listen A 5-year-old with obstructive sleep apnea presents for tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. PREOPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS Print Section Listen Sleep apnea is defined as a pause in breathing…
Neuromodulation for Pain
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Neurostimulation techniques have been used in the management of pain for close to 50 years. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) represents one of the most widely…
Setting Up a Pain Treatment Facility
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Over the past several years, there has been considerable interest in expanding the role of the pain management specialist as an integral member of the health…
Ethical Issues and Problems of Physician Trust in the Chronic Pain Patient
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The focus of the ethics literature regarding pain management has shifted from issues related to the treatment of patients experiencing terminal pain to the concept of…
Outcome Measurements in Pain Medicine
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The measurement of health is central to the evaluation of health care. Until the first part of the 20th century, health was defined as the absence…
