ALLMedicine™ Epiglottitis Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Epiglottitis is a bacterial infection of the upper respiratory tract that can be rapidly progressive and life-threatening. Though predominantly seen in unvaccinated children, there seems to be a shift with the incidence of adult cases rising follo...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Background Nasotracheal intubation may be performed in patients undergoing maxillofacial surgery or dental procedures or when orotracheal intubation is not feasible (eg, in patients with limited mouth opening).[1, 2] Nasotracheal intubation used t...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Background Nasotracheal intubation may be performed in patients undergoing maxillofacial surgery or dental procedures or when orotracheal intubation is not feasible (eg, in patients with limited mouth opening). [1, 2] Nasotracheal intubation used ...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Background Nasotracheal intubation may be performed in patients undergoing maxillofacial surgery or dental procedures or when orotracheal intubation is not feasible (eg, in patients with limited mouth opening). [1, 2] Nasotracheal intubation used ...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Acute epiglottitis (AE) is a life-threatening condition and needs to be recognized timely. Diagnosis of AE with a lateral neck radiograph yields poor reliability and sensitivity. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are powerful tools to assist the...

Nov 5th, 2019 - In about 3% of children, viral infections of the airways that develop in early childhood lead to narrowing of the laryngeal lumen in the subglottic region resulting in symptoms such as hoarseness, abarking cough, stridor, and dyspnea. These infect...

Nov 6th, 2017 - Probiotic can be defined as "live microorganisms that grant health effects to the host if consumed in sufficient amounts". Probiotic bacteria, which beneficially affect the host by improving the intestinal microbial balance, may affect the immune ...

Mar 5th, 2013 - Haemophilus Influenzae type b (Hib) is one of the major causes of infectious meningitis in children, and can also cause sepsis, cellulitis, arthritis, epiglottitis, pneumonia and myelitis. TAK-816 is a conjugated Hib vaccine being tested in health...

Jul 26th, 2022 - Often enough, monkeypox can present as anorectal pain or as a single genital lesion and easily be misdiagnosed as a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to authors of the largest case series yet of the current international outbreak. Of...

Jul 11th, 2022 - Rami Komrokji, MD: Ruben, there was an interesting abstract presented [at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in 2021] by Dr Ronald Hoffman on PTG-300 [rusfertide] for phlebotomy-dependent patients. Can you walk us through it? This d...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - Upper respiratory tract infection (URI) represents the most common acute illness evaluated in the outpatient setting. URIs range from the common cold — typically a mild, self-limited, catarrhal syndrome of the nasopharynx — to life-threatening ill...

Oct 6th, 2020 - Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson from the Yal...

May 14th, 2020 - Answer 2/5 Of the following, which condition is most commonly associated with multiple benign nasal polyps? Your peers chose: Epiglottitis 0% Bacterial pharyngitis 0% Rhinosporidiosis 0% Alcohol intolerance 0% The pathogenesis of nasal polyposis i...