La liaison fructueuse: Laboratory and emergency medicine

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Pathology and laboratory medicine.

Automation streamlines a previously labor-intensive process and virtually eliminates sampling or labeling errors. The techniques of molecular biology and genetics continue to assist the physician in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of patients with neoplastic diseases.

Ethics and laboratory medicine.

Ethical issues have been given limited attention by professionals in laboratory medicine. Professional ethics is the moral bond that links a profession, the people it serves, and society. Understanding the complexities of individual and common good is essential for full professional participation in major issues in health care. Specific issues that challenge laboratory professionals in clinical...

Psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry: empowering patients through imparting information.

Τhe empowerment of patients is a key aspect of professionalism in psychiatry. The sensitive, accurate and timely imparting of information is one of the highest expectations that patients and carers have of health-care professionals. In the course of his clinical work in Liaison Psychiatry the author has developed an information leaflet which reflects established practice and emerging evidence i...