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Percutaneous Coronary Interventions PCI
Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...
Ventricular aneurysms are usually aftereffects of myocardial infarctions. When the heart muscle (cardiac muscle) partially dies during a heart attack, a layer of muscle may survive, and being severe...
Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which mainly affects the development of literacy and language related skills (BDA). It has been suggested that up to 10% of the population (or even more)...
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Three-stage forehead flap enables sculpting in complex nasal reconstruction
By thinning the flap all at once after underlying lining and cartilage support has been created, the three-stage forehead flap allows better aesthetic outcomes than two-stage procedures for comple...
Laser cleared for flap creation
The FDA has cleared the additional indication of corneal flap creation in refractive surgical procedures for the LenSx Laser (Alcon).
New Interventions Reduce Restraint Use in Nursing Homes
A new study shows that nursing homes that took part in a multicomponent, guideline-based intervention made less use of...
ICG Evaluation of Forehead Flap Perfusion Prior to Division
This interesting case describes the benefits of laser-assisted ICG and the LifeCell SpyElite System in confirming flap perfusion and viability of reconstructive procedures prior to division. ePlasty...
Study reveals potential of NIR spectral imaging for intra-operative skin flap assessment
In 2010 breast reconstruction entered the Top Five list of reconstructive procedures in the US, with 93,000 procedures performed, up 8% from 2009, and 18% from 2000. This is among the most common skin...
Baltimore - Hill Receives Honorary Fellowship from Royal College of Nursing
Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, was recently awarded an honorary fellowship by London's Royal College of Nursing in Liverpool. "Mart...
Radial forearm free flap shows worth in mandibular reconstruction
The osteocutaneous radial forearm free flap should be used for mandibular reconstruction because of the low rate of long-term donor and recipient site complications, particularly with prophylactic pla...
Not all 'surviving sepsis' intervention recs are adopted
(HealthDay)—Not all nursing interventions recommended in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) are actually implemented in emergency departments, according to a review published in the January issue o...
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Component Separation Improves Outcomes in VRAM Flap Donor Sites with Excessive Fascial Tension.
BACKGROUND:: The vertical rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (VRAM) flap has numerous uses in pelvic reconstruction; however, flap harvest can result in abdominal wall morbidity. We hypothesized that c...
AIM: The short term outcome was examined of perineal vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous (VRAM) flap reconstruction following abdominal perineal excision (APE). METHOD: Retrospective case note revi...
Perineal reconstruction with an extrapelvic vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap.
OBJECTIVES:: Extensive perineal resections often require autologous tissue reconstruction, especially in wide oncological resections. Local and regional pedicled flaps from the lower extremity and abd...
INTRODUCTION: An abdominoperineal excision of rectum (APER) may be required for rectal tumours less than 6 cm from the anal verge. Recently, the cylindrical APER has been used t...
Nursing interventions in inpatient psychiatry.
ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY: The use of a standardized nursing language enhances nursing quality. The Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) considers any treatment by nurses that improve patient outcomes....
