Motion planning for Continuum Surgical Robots (CSRs) faces significant challenges during minimally invasive surgery (MIS) when operating within highly constrained anatomical workspaces. Although ...

BACKGROUND Severe tracheobronchial malacia and stenosis are important causes of morbidity and mortality in children in intensive care, but little is known about how best to diagnose these conditions ...

In sharp contrast to cardiac arrest in adults, most causes of cardiopulmonary arrest in infants (aged <1 year) or children (aged 1 to 8 years) are related to airway or ventilation problems rather than ...

Airway management during thyroid surgery is challenging, particularly in patients with altered upper airway anatomy that may impair laryngoscopic visualisation. Bougies are commonly used to aid ...

Ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is a common complication of coronary heart disease (CHD)[].Surgery, mainly including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and combined mitral valve plasty (MVP), ...

Background: Upper airway compromise due to tracheobronchial stenosis commonly occurs in patients with Wegener’s granulomatosis (WG). There is at present no consensus on the optimal management of this ...

Background Since the publication of the EULAR recommendations for the management of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) in 2016, several randomised clinical trials ...

The term syndactyly derives from the Greek syn (together), and daktylos (finger), and refers to the clinical appearance of fingers which have not undergone a normal process of separation in ...

Background— Reperfusion therapy during acute myocardial infarction results in myocardial salvage and improved ventricular function but may also influence the arrhythmogenic substrate for ventricular ...

In this paper, we report on a new operation for ulnar neuropathy caused by friction at the elbow. The operation consists of ulnar groove plasty proximal to the cubital tunnel. The ulnar nerve is ...