Patients as Researchers in Adult Critical Care Medicine. Fantasy or Reality?

Love in nursing: reality or fantasy?

Background & Aim: From the beginning of theorizing in nursing, relationship was proposed as an essential element in care. Love is also an essential element in a relationship. Although the place of love in nursing has not been explained systematically, the works of theorists such as Watson and others` works are significant. Therefore, this study is presented with the aim of explaining love in th...

Pulmonary medicine and (adult) critical care medicine in Europe.

There has been growing concern within the European Respiratory Society (ERS) that pulmonary physicians are becoming less involved in the practise of intensive care medicine (ICM). A Working Party (WP) was therefore established to identify issues that might explain this trend. No precise terms of reference were issued to guide this exercise. The WP ensured that its report focussed on improving p...

Closed-loop systems in anesthesia: reality or fantasy?

Personalized In Vitro Cancer Modeling — Fantasy or Reality?

With greater technological advancements and understanding of pathophysiology, "personalized medicine" has become a more realistic goal. In the field of cancer, personalized medicine is the ultimate objective, as each cancer is unique and each tumor is heterogeneous. For many decades, researchers have relied upon studying the histopathology of tumors in the hope that it would provide clues to un...

Linkage disequilibrium mapping of complex disease: fantasy or reality?

In the past year, data about the level and nature of linkage disequilibrium between alleles of tightly linked SNPs have started to become available. Furthermore, increasing evidence of allelic heterogeneity at the loci predisposing to complex disease has been observed, which has lead to initial attempts to develop methods of linkage disequilibrium detection allowing for this difficulty. It has ...