[Role of the Department of Emergency in the application of the MD 388/03: aid, treatment and prevention]. / Il ruolo del Dipartimento di Emergenza Urgenza nell'applicazione del DM 388/03: il soccorso, le cure e la prevenzione.

The aid happens behind call of national the only number for the sanitary emergency: 118. The times of Aid you flavored yourself and indicates to you from the Institutions, regarding the moment of call, previews the arrival of a aid characterized within 8 minuteren for the area to high inhabited density and within 20 minuteren for the areas to lowland density. The Means breakup of Aid near yards with particular infortunistico risk, is possible, and case for case must be estimated: the demand must be placed to the responsible of It centers them Operating 118. Legislator previews that the reported formation, to the practical ones of ready aid, of the attache's to the emergency of the enterprises it is made from the where possible doctor 'in collaboration with the system of emergency-urgency of the sanitary service nazionale'. Also the demands for formation for specific risks must to be agreed with the responsibles of the Structures of the Emergency of the SSN in particular the Directors of the Structure of Ready Aid, of Center them Operating 118, or of the Department of Emergenza-Urgenza.

Mesosigmoidoplasty in the treatment of sigmoid volvulus in children.

Sigmoid volvulus is a rare disease of childhood, which requires surgery. The case of a 12-year-old boy is reported. The main aetiopathogenetic causes and the proper surgical approach are also described with particular reference to the so-called mesosigmoidoplasty, which consists of shortening the mesosigmoid by incision along its axis and transverse suture.