DECISION BEFORE INCISION

Hepatocyte transplantation: Consider infusion before incision

Human hepatocyte transplantation is undergoing study as a bridge, or even alternative, to orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). This technique has undergone multiple developments over the past thirty years in terms of mode of delivery, source and preparation of cell cultures, monitoring of graft function, and use of immunosuppression. Further refinements and improvements in these techniques w...

Corneal aberrations before and after small-incision cataract surgery.

PURPOSE To study the effect of small-incision cataract surgery on the optical aberrations of the cornea. METHODS Corneal topography was measured before and after cataract surgery on 70 eyes of 70 patients. Monofocal foldable IOLs were implanted after phacoemulsification through a clear-cornea, 3.5-mm incision without suture. Corneal aberrations, up to the fifth order and 6-mm pupil, were calc...

Before You Make That Big Decision… Hbr.org

THANKS TO a slew of popular new books, many executives today realize how biases can distort reasoning in business. Confi rmation bias, for instance, leads people to ignore evidence that contradicts their preconceived notions. Anchoring causes them to weigh one piece of information too heavily in making decisions; loss aversion makes them too cautious. In our experience, however, awareness of th...

THE BIG IDEA Before You Make That Big Decision

Advance directives and outcomes of surrogate decision making before death.

BACKGROUND Recent discussions about health care reform have raised questions regarding the value of advance directives. METHODS We used data from survey proxies in the Health and Retirement Study involving adults 60 years of age or older who had died between 2000 and 2006 to determine the prevalence of the need for decision making and lost decision-making capacity and to test the association ...