Urgent surgical repair includes procedures such as "evacuation of hematoma, ligation of bleeding vessels, debridement, suturing of tears in tunica albuginea, urethral stenting, and/or end-to-end urethral anastomosis" [3].
This includes procedures such as laboratory analysis, blood-bank services, X-ray services, physiotherapy, visits by consultants outside the ICU and the use of operating theatres.
The infants had been admitted for various reasons, and treatment included procedures such as mechanical ventilation, enteral feedings, and cardiac catheterization.
Medical treatment does not include diagnostic procedures, such as X-rays and drawing blood samples.
These may include minor procedures, such as a trigger point injection, or a major procedure, such as a spinal cord stimulator trial or even a disk procedure.
Non-pharmacological options include invasive procedures such as occipital nerve stimulation, even if the first randomized studies did not confirm the promising preliminary data [8].
Clinical responsibilities of the division today include intracranial procedures (such as awake craniotomy and aneurysm clipping), endovascular treatment of intracranial vascular abnormalities, electroconvulsive therapy, complex spine surgery with instrumentation, and radical head and neck surgery.
In such cases, the remaining options for the rapid diagnosis of miliary TB include invasive procedures such as open lung biopsy or empirical anti-TB treatment, depending on the probability of miliary TB based on clinical and radiographic findings.
An international study under the auspices of both the ACR and the European League Against Rheumatism is warranted to develop new universally recognized classification criteria, which would probably include new procedures such as major salivary gland ultrasonography.
