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Background: Aerodigestive foreign bodies are common clinical problem that may lead to life threatening complications or sudden death. It's commonly seen in children since they are curious to explore environmental objects with their mouth, while the development of airway protection reflexes and chewing capacity are immature
Objectives: This study aims to assess the extent of parents' awareness about the danger of foreign objects that can be swallowed or inhaled by their children and how to manage such cases
Materials and methods: A cross sectional study was used to assess the level of parents' awareness about the danger of swallowing or inhaling foreign objects by their children and to assess their knowledge about dealings with such cases. The data were collected from 459 by a distributed questionnaire among parents in Al-sharqiya
Results: 60.3% of participants were aware of aerodigestive foreign bodies. Regarding the management of child with aerodigestive foreign bodies in different age groups. For child with age group 1 year and less, about [34.9%] of participants were aware of the management. However, there is misunderstanding of managing child with age 5 years and less where only 5.6% of participants were aware of the management in this age group. As regards the children more than 5 years old, only 36.2% of parents were aware of the management
Conclusion: The current study showed that most parents are lacking knowledge about the management of this problem which reflect the importance of education and increasing the awareness among them to reduce the morbidly and mortality rate among children
ABSTRACT
Background: Palmaris longus [PL] is one of the forearm muscles that lie between the flexor carpi ulnaris and the flexor carpi radialis muscles. PL action is flexion of the hand at the wrist and making the palmar aponerurosis tense. Plastic surgeons utilize the Palmaris longus in restoration of lip and chin defects
Objectives: We sought to determine the frequency of the absence of the palmaris longus in Saudi Arabia among female students in King Faisal University, AL-Ahsa
Materials and methods: Two hundred normal subjects were chosen randomly from King Faisal University female students. Subjects who had gone through a surgical procedure or have any deformities in the forearm were excluded. We have examined the presence or absence of palmaris longus using three tests. Subjects were asked to do standard test for the assessment of PL tendon. If PL cannot be detected by the standard test, two more tests were performed to confirm the absence
Results: The overall prevalence of absence both unilaterally and bilaterally is 40.5%. Unilateral absence was 20.5%. The bilateral absence was 20%. The distribution on the right and left was 29% and 31.5% respectively
Conclusions: The present study found palmaris longus to be absent equally bilateral and unilateral in more than one third of the sample and significantly more common in the left side