Quadragésimo ano do parecer CFE nº 977/65

ECMO or no ECMO: Do no harm.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used in the management of neonates with life-threatening cardiorespiratory diseases since 19821. Several studies have demonstrated that ECMO promotes normal survival in neonates with respiratory failure2-4. After decades of discussion, ECMO is now well accepted as a standard of treatment for neonatal respiratory failure refractory to conventio...

Cfe and Military Stability in Europe

First, do no harm

Conservation agencies charged with care of threatened plant species should be governed by the concepts that conservation actions should do no harm. Adaptive management research progresses in imperfect situations due to incomplete knowledge. Interpreting new experimental or observational evidence for inclusion in conservation plans should first consider the big picture by identifying collateral ...

First, do no harm.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 [email protected] www.karger.com vational study, Pinder et al. report a 26% increased risk of CHF in older women treated with adjuvant anthracyclines for breast cancer, compared with non-anthracycline regimens [8]. Cardiac troponins are regulatory proteins that control the calcium-mediated interaction of actin and myosin. The t...

First, do no harm.

Early this summer a healthy 62-year-old man with a history of colorectal cancer came to see me for his periodic health examination. In an effort to embrace patient-centred, evidence-informed decision making, much of these visits with healthy men 50 and older in my practice seems to be taken up with discussing the risks and benefits of screening for prostate cancer with a prostate-specific antig...