AsktheGeneticistSM: five years of online experience

Five years' experience of injured children.

This study was undertaken to analyse admission data on all patients seen in the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Trauma Unit during the period 24 April 1984 - 31 March 1989. Data were retrieved from computerised records completed on admission and were reviewed descriptively. Variations in age, sex and population group pattern for different causes of injury were evaluated together with...

Twenty-five years experience with extracorporeal septoplasty.

Even today, the difficult septum presents a surgical problem. A severe septum deformity is caused mostly by an accident or is seen in patients with malformations such as cleft lip and palate deformity. It is characterized by a massive malformation in all levels with consecutive blocking of one or both airways. Such marked septal deformities cannot be corrected properly by standard septoplasty t...

Five Years' Experience with the Vacuum Extractor.

Factors affecting discharge time of well differentiated thyroid cancer patients receiving 131I therapy: Five years’ experience

Introduction:The post-surgical management of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer include ablation of remnant local and distant metastatic tissues with 131I therapy, which accentuates isolation of the patient in order to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure to the care givers, general public and the environment. The duration of isolation is subject to the redu...

Medication discussion groups in the Netherlands: five years of experience.

INTRODUCTION Nation-wide implementation of medication discussion (MD) groups in the Netherlands was designed as a bottom-up approach and has been in progress for five years. This invites a review of what has been achieved in these structured discussions between general practitioners and pharmacists. CONTEXT Early in 1997 the Dutch Foundation for Effective Use of Medication (DGV) initiated a f...